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South Africa’s Makhaya Ntini claimed his 16th five-wicket haul to undo Pakistan’s first innings in the first Test on Friday. Fast bowler Ntini took five for 83 as Pakistan were dismissed for 313 an hour before lunch on the second day. South Africa made a shaky start to their reply and were 32 for two at lunch with both wickets falling to fast bowler Mohammad Asif.
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/ 12 January 2007
About 3 000 Zambians turned up on Friday for a demonstration against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for proposing tax reforms to the government, which are widely seen as biting for the poor. The demonstrators, mainly from the country’s largest opposition Patriotic Front, marched from the city centre to the Ministry of Finance.
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/ 12 January 2007
Bill and Melinda Gates are to lead a wholesale review of their investments, which could lead to them shifting billions of dollars out of companies that are socially irresponsible or harm human health. Some of the billions spent by the Gates Foundation on improving health in the developing world came from its investments in companies that caused illness and disease.
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/ 12 January 2007
In this extract from the new <b><i>Laugh It Off</i></b> annual, Koos Kombuis depicts the Oprah show as a religious experience.
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/ 12 January 2007
The hamlet of Prince Albert is becoming a destination for art aficionados, writes Brenton Maart.
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/ 12 January 2007
The face, up on a grimy Edinburgh billboard, was not a pretty one, its pasty skin and flared nostrils giving him the look of a gigantic, severely constipated albino bat nursing its grievances in a sooty belfry. Closer inspection revealed that this specimen belonged to a crew known as the Arctic Monkeys, a rock posse of some renown.
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/ 12 January 2007
A suspected fresh outbreak of avian influenza has been reported in northern Nigeria’s Katsina State with more than 5Â 000 birds infected, the agriculture commissioner said on Friday. ”We have detected an outbreak in three poultry farms in and around the state capital in the past week. We strongly suspect it to be bird flu,” Ali Hussein Dutsin-Ma said.
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/ 12 January 2007
Australia beat England by eight wickets in the first one-day tri-series match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday. Set a target of 243, Australia chased down the total with 4.4 overs to spare after opener Adam Gilchrist struck a rapid 60 and skipper Ricky Ponting a steady unbeaten 82 in front of a boisterous home crowd.
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/ 12 January 2007
Two Israeli soldiers whose capture in July by guerrillas from the Lebanese movement Hezbollah sparked a 34-day war, are still alive, a former Lebanese president was quoted on Friday as saying. Amin Gemayel was approached by a reporter from the Israeli daily Maariv on the sidelines of a conference in Madrid.
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/ 12 January 2007
Fraud convict Tony Yengeni looks set to receive a warm welcome when he is released on parole from Malmesbury Prison on Monday morning. The African National Congress in the Western Cape said on Friday several of its senior members will be there to greet their party’s former chief whip, including provincial secretary Mcebisi Skwatsha and chairperson James Ngculu.