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/ 19 August 2004

Trump is still in the game

First the board room, now the board game. At his Fifth Avenue Tower on Wednesday, Donald Trump unveiled his newest business venture: a new board game, called Trump: The Game, with high-stakes dealmaking and dollar sums in the billions. Move over, Mr Monopoly.

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/ 19 August 2004

Man saves dog from jaws of death

A cocker spaniel owes its life to a man who jumped into an alligator pool at a Czech zoo and rescued the dog from jaws of death, a Prague newspaper reported on on Thursday. The drama happened on Tuesday while Michal Gubik and his girlfriend were walking their female dog at the zoo.

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/ 19 August 2004

There’s a bear in the beer

When state wildlife agents recently found a black bear passed out on the lawn of Baker Lake Resort, there were some clues scattered nearby — dozens of empty cans of beer. The bear apparently got into campers’ coolers and used his claws and teeth to puncture the cans. And he appeared to favour one brand over another.

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/ 19 August 2004

German highway egg scramble

A German superhighway was closed down to one lane for hours on Thursday after a truck hauling 15 tons of eggs crashed, scattering its load and creating a slimy mess across the autobahn near Hanover. The truck swerved to avoid a metal object in the road and hit a barrier at about 1am local time.

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/ 19 August 2004

Southern Africa gets fourth transfrontier park

Malawi and Zambia have concluded an agreement for the creation of a new 33 000 square kilometre cross border conservation area, according to an announcement in South Africa on Thursday. The new park will consolidate the the Nyika National Park, the Vwaza Marsh Wildlife Reserve and the Kasungu National Park in Malawi and the Nyika National Park, the Lunazi Forest Reserve and the Lukusuzi National Park in Zambia.

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/ 19 August 2004

‘Fair trial’ for SA terror suspects

Two South Africans held in Pakistan on suspicion of terror-related activities will get a fair trial, a Pakistani diplomat said on Thursday. ”[There are] clear-cut law processes that will take their course,” said Javed Jalil Khattak, first secretary of the Pakistan high commission in Pretoria. He said the legal procedure to be followed was a ”very fair process”.

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/ 19 August 2004

Killer bird flu hits Malaysia

A deadly strain of bird flu that has killed 27 people across Asia this year has hit Malaysia, the government announced on Thursday. Tests have proved that an outbreak of avian flu among chickens in a village in the north-eastern state of Kelantan, first revealed on Wednesday, was caused by the H5N1 virus.

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/ 19 August 2004

Iscor soars to fresh all-time high

South African steel producer Iscor on Thursday once again touched a fresh all-time high, this time R47,80 a share, due to the group’s strong results released on Wednesday and the prospect of a possible special dividend of as much as R13 a share, as well as strong prospects.