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/ 22 February 2007
Hong Kong restaurants have come up with a novel way to cut down on waste from food leftovers — threatening to fine diners who don’t eat up. A number of restaurants say they will charge them between HK$5 and HK$20 (between about R4,50 and R17,60) if customers leave any food on their plates, media reports said.
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/ 22 February 2007
Animal carers in Hong Kong said on Wednesday pet lovers who had bought piglets in hopes of some Year of the Pig luck may have been conned by shop owners who actually sold them rodents instead. According to the Chinese zodiac, this year is represented is represented by the pig.
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/ 22 February 2007
Iran is seeking to create a paradise for female tourists by turning an island on a north-western lake into a male-free zone, the press reported on Wednesday. All public transport, restaurants and facilities on the island — on the gigantic Oroumiyeh lake close to the Turkish border — will be staffed only by women.
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/ 22 February 2007
A Bosnian man could lose his leg after his playful dog triggered his shotgun following a failed fox-hunting trip, a daily reported on Wednesday. Milivoje Radoja of the northern Bosnian town of Laktasi suffered the serious leg wound when his five-month-old Polish shepherd, Gara, pawed at the weapon.
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/ 22 February 2007
A sword-wielding Wisconsin man who rushed to the aid of a woman he thought was being raped in the apartment upstairs was carted off to jail after police discovered his neighbour was just watching porn. The cries for help pouring through the floorboards sounded far too real to James van Iveren.
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/ 22 February 2007
The Taliban has deployed 6Â 000 fighters in preparation for a spring offensive against government and foreign forces in Afghanistan, said the military leader of the Islamic milita that once ruled the country. ”The attack is imminent,” Mullah Dadullah said in an interview with al-Jazeera television.
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/ 22 February 2007
Thieves will soon be able to evade jail by simply striking a deal with their victims under the National Prosecuting Authority’s proposed restorative justice programme. Shamila Batohi, head of programme, said the model was aimed at curbing recidivism among petty offenders.
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/ 22 February 2007
Britain’s Prince Harry is to serve in Iraq with his regiment as the first British royal to see active service for 25 years, the Ministry of Defence said on Thursday. The 22-year-old, who is third in line to the throne, is a second lieutenant in the Blues and Royals regiment, which will deploy to Iraq in May and June for six to seven months. His uncle, Prince Andrew, was the last British royal to be sent to the front line.
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/ 22 February 2007
24-year-old man pleaded guilty in the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Thursday to the murder of Anglo-Zulu war historian David Rattray. South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported that Thembinkosi Ndlovu told Judge President Vuka Shabalala he and five others had gone to Rattray’s Rorke’s Drift home last month to rob him.
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/ 22 February 2007
Russian companies are welcome to tender for building a second nuclear power plant in South Africa, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said in Pretoria on Thursday. Although no agreement was signed on nuclear energy, businesses from both countries had agreed to work on it, she said.