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/ 27 October 2003
Fast bowlers should have a compulsory three-month lay-off from cricket every year to recover from injury, according to a proposal aired at an Australian sports medicine conference on Monday.
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/ 27 October 2003
KwaZulu-Natal provincial nature conservation has received at least 20 offers from people who want to become involved in a breeding project for the endangered black rhino.
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/ 27 October 2003
Arsenal reclaimed first place in the English Premier League with a 1-1 draw at Charlton on Sunday while both AC Milan and Juventus posted easy wins to stay tied at the top of the Serie A. In Spain, Deportivo de La Coruna took over first place, while Bayer Leverkusen moved into the lead in the Bundesliga.
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/ 27 October 2003
Mike Hercus scored a try, four conversions and two penalties as the United States ended their record of 10 World Cup losses with a 39-26 beating of Japan on Monday. It was the Americans’ first victory since beating Japan at the first World Cup in 1987 and now they are tied for that loss record with Japan.
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/ 27 October 2003
I just came back from a visit to the doctor. Things were going haywire in my life, in my house, in my family. My wife had urged me to take specialist advice before things got out of hand. She could see I was going bonkers.
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/ 26 October 2003
Two strong earthquakes shook a remote region of northwestern China’s desertlands, killing at least eight people, the government said on Sunday. The quakes — magnitudes 6,1 and 5,8 — hit Gansu province within seven minutes, and damage to reservoirs left a large patch of land in danger of flooding.
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/ 26 October 2003
A wildfire has leaped through dense housing tracts in the foothills of the San Bernardino mountains in California, destroying more than 200 homes, threatening 1 000 others and forcing thousands of people to flee under a sky thick with smoke and tinged orange-red by flames.
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/ 26 October 2003
The hotel in Baghdad where United States Deputy Secretary of Defence Paul Wolfowitz was staying was hit on Sunday morning by explosive projectiles in an attack that wounded at least three people. Details were sketchy, but Wolfowitz, who was staying at the Al Rasheed hotel, was said not to have been injured.