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/ 29 December 2003
On the back of fine centuries from Jacques Kallis and Gary Kirsten, and aided by staggeringly sloppy fielding, South Africa shut the West Indies completely out of the second cricket Test at Kingsmead on Sunday. At stumps on day three, the Windies had moved to 18 without loss, barely denting the huge deficit of 394.
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/ 29 December 2003
South African cricket captain Graeme Smith might not take to the field for the remaining two days of the second cricket Test against the West Indies after suffering a hamstring injury. Smith failed to come out for the start of the West Indies second innings at Kingsmead on Sunday.
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/ 28 December 2003
"The brief is tough, tougher than I expected. To write about the next generation — the youth of today, the people of tomorrow — is to write about a world of different, very different, worlds. I start on the lush lawns of Innesfree Park in Sandton on a Sunday afternoon." Nawaal Deane investigates the state of the youth today and tomorrow.
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/ 28 December 2003
A suspected case of deadly ebola fever has been reported in Zimbabwe’s prime resort of Victoria Falls, state media said on Sunday. Specimen samples have been taken and sent to a laboratory in South Africa for tests after a trader from Angola died at the town’s main hospital on Christmas Day.
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/ 28 December 2003
In the biggest rebel attack since the December 13 capture of Saddam Hussein, suicide bombers and assailants with mortars and grenade launchers blasted coalition military bases and the governor’s office in the southern city of Karbala in Iraq. Six coalition soldiers, six Iraqi police officers and a civilian died.
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/ 28 December 2003
The British-built space probe Beagle 2 has failed for a third night running to make contact with a giant telescope in west England confirming its safe arrival on Mars, the project’s organisers said on Sunday. On the third night of trying, scientists were hoping the telescope would pick up a radio signal from the probe.
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/ 28 December 2003
Investigators tentatively traced the first United States cow with mad cow disease to Canada, which could help determine the scope of the outbreak and might even limit the economic damage to the American beef industry. Some calves in a quarantined herd of 400 that included a male offspring of the sick cow likely will be killed.
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/ 28 December 2003
Health departments throughout China stepped up measures to combat the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) on Sunday, a day after authorities announced the nation’s first suspected case of the disease since July. Shanghai has been placed on ”high alert”, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
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/ 28 December 2003
Rescue workers were downbeat on Sunday about finding survivors in the rubble of Bam, two days after a devastating earthquake destroyed 70% of the southeast Iranian town of 100Â 000 people with tens of thousands feared dead. The Iranian interior minister said the hope of finding survivors is ”very small”.
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/ 28 December 2003
A bankruptcy court on Saturday declared Parmalat’s main operating arm insolvent amid a growing sense of panic at the Italian food multinational, where investigators are probing an alleged accounting scandal. Up to £7-billion is thought to have disappeared from Parmalat’s accounts.