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/ 8 November 2004
After starting higher, the JSE Securities Exchange was lower on Monday morning as investors took profits from the exchange’s strong recent run. However, with the rand weaker, the JSE is likely to move higher later in the morning. At 9.19am, the all share index was down 0,07% and the industrial index lost 0,19%. Resources gained 0,14%, while the gold mining index was up 2,41%.
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/ 8 November 2004
New Zealand health authorities have banned four herbal remedies which claim to boost male sexual performance because they may provoke heart attacks. The products, including pills called Boyjoy and Manup, contain sildenafil and tadalafil, the active substances used in Viagra and Cialis, the only registered prescription medicines approved to treat erectile dysfunction in New Zealand.
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/ 8 November 2004
To American pet-owners they are a dog’s best friend. But on Sunday, British animal welfare groups warned that canine spectacles could be as much of a hindrance as a help to short-sighted mutts. The prescription eyeglasses, which cost about a pair, are intended to improve the quality of life for old dogs who need new tricks to chase the neighbourhood cats.
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/ 8 November 2004
A group of 200 left-wing protesters wearing balaclavas, carnival masks and bandanas over their faces, went on a ”proletariat shopping spree” in a Rome hypermarket at the weekend, carrying off goods and handing them out. They swarmed into the Panorama hypermarket on the outskirts of the Italian capital on Saturday shouting ”free shopping for all”.
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/ 8 November 2004
The Palestinian leadership is to travel to Paris on Monday to visit Yasser Arafat, who is gravely ill and possibly on life support, in a French military hospital. Officials said the Prime Minister, Ahmed Qurei, the acting head of the main Palestinian political organisations, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Foreign Minister, Nabil Shaath, were to consult with doctors at the Percy military hospital, where Arafat remains in intensive care amid conflicting reports about his health.
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/ 8 November 2004
A man, apparently distraught at the outcome of last week’s United States presidential election, climbed into the pit marking the spot in New York where the twin towers once stood, and shot himself, authorities said at the weekend. The body of Andrew Veal (25) of Athens, Georgia, was discovered in the restricted area around the wreckage of the World Trade Centre on Friday night with a shotgun and a bottle of Jack Daniels whiskey by his side.
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/ 8 November 2004
An 11-year-old boy in central China took his mother to court for breaking a promise to buy him a computer if he did well at school, a news report said on Monday. The woman had told her son she would buy him a computer if he scored average marks of more than 94% for his school work, the Hong Kong edition of the China Daily reported.
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/ 8 November 2004
There is something strange about buying a lime-and-water at a hotel bar and paying Z$5 000 (about R5) for it. Welcome to Zimbabwe, land of political upheaval and a currency gone mad and, for South Africans at least, a friendly value-for-money holiday destination. Unlike many parts of Zimbabwe, in Victoria Falls there is food, there is petrol and there are some fantastic hotels to suit most budgets.
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/ 8 November 2004
So I dragged my bags out of the aeroplane at Heathrow and, having run the gamut of the slit-eyed customs and immigration officials, who these days comprise all sexes, all tendencies, and all races, which is no simple trick I can assure you, I got on the very civilised express train and found myself at the heart of Paddington station. And there I met a man called Thomas Jones with whom I had a most refreshing conversation …
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/ 8 November 2004
The uniform of Nazi Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring became greener as the victorious allies approached Berlin, according to Hitler’s architect Albert Speer, until it began to look like that of a United States five-star general. In South Africa we’ve become so used to chameleon conduct that we don’t seem to notice it any more.