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/ 23 November 2006
Ricky Ponting completed his 32nd Test hundred as Australia dominated the opening day of the first Ashes Test against England at the Gabba on Thursday. The Australian skipper batted magnificently to reach the close unbeaten on 137 with Mike Hussey on 63 and the world champions in cruise control at 346-3.
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/ 23 November 2006
Law-enforcement agencies will in future take strong action against taxi drivers who engage in lawlessness and violent conduct, the Cabinet warned on Thursday. Briefing the media in Pretoria, government communications head Themba Maseko said a small ”splinter group” within the industry was responsible for the recent violent protests.
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/ 23 November 2006
English football fans rioted in the German city of Cologne overnight on Wednesday ahead of Tottenham’s Uefa Cup match against Bayer Leverkusen, police said. A group of about 80 fans smashed up the interior of a pub, causing damage costing  450 and a car was damaged. One English supporter was hurt in the incident.
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/ 23 November 2006
A group of students who protested at OR Tambo International airport on Wednesday are racist, the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) said on Thursday. ”These hooligans disguising [sic] to be concerned about South Africa are not only racists to the core, but are an example of the past that is refusing to acknowledge the birth of the new South Africa.”
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/ 23 November 2006
New and used car prices have declined by a total of 3,3% in the past three years, Business Report wrote on Thursday. Citing the annual report of the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa), it said the prices of new and used vehicles dropped by 1,2% in 2004 and by 1,6% last year.
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/ 23 November 2006
An infrared camera reportedly designed to track fighter jets has become the latest hi-tech gadget used to cover the Ashes series between Australia and England. Host broadcaster Channel Nine said the device, known as the ”hot spot”, could show whether a batman was out or not with 100% accuracy.
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/ 23 November 2006
Heavy flooding in Somalia killed at least seven people overnight, bringing the death toll to 80 from three weeks of torrential rains, witnesses and aid workers said on Thursday. Of the casualties, four were mauled by crocodiles lurking in floodwater in Somalia’s Hiraan region, where the River Shabelle broke its banks and swept through villages, they said.
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/ 23 November 2006
Germany’s seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher has, for the first time, ruled out a return to Formula One, saying the sport is so fast-moving that it is impossible to jump back suddenly into the cockpit. ”Once you are out, you are out for good,” Schumacher said in an interview.
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/ 23 November 2006
Moroka Swallows, the last of Soweto’s ”Big Three”, crashed out of the Telkom Knockout at the Green Point Stadium in Cape Town on Wednesday night and continued a miserable sequence of results that has left the Dube club shorn of self-belief and in crisis. The Birds went down 2-1 to a youthful and willing but distinctly vulnerable Ajax Cape Town.
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/ 23 November 2006
Tiger Woods fired a six-under-par 66 in Hawaii on Wednesday to surge past Jim Furyk and defend his title in the -million Grand Slam of Golf. Woods, the world’s number-one player, captured his seventh title in eight appearances in this unofficial post-season event.