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/ 22 November 2006
England received a welcome boost on the eve of the first Ashes Test when injured batsman Ian Bell completed a net session to boost his chances of selection. The in-form Bell, who scored a century in England’s last warm-up match against South Australia at the weekend, had been in danger of missing the opening Test after he was struck on the wrist by teammate James Anderson.
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/ 22 November 2006
Geneticist Adil Pacheco took blood samples on Friday from three puppies in a poor neighbourhood in Passo Fundo in southern Brazil to settle a dispute over a claim they were born from a cat. ”It’s rather simple really. If the puppies prove to have 78 chromosomes, they are dogs. If they have 38, they are cats,” said Pacheco.
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/ 22 November 2006
The Australian state of New South Wales is willing to help South Africa stage the 2010 Soccer World Cup if it is unable to meet its commitments, Premier Morris Iemma said on Wednesday. Iemma told reporters that he was ”salivating at the prospect” of the state acting as emergency host to one of the world’s biggest sporting events.
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/ 22 November 2006
Amid speculation about his political future, Italy’s former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, went on trial on Tuesday with David Mills, the estranged husband of the British Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell. An article published by a newspaper close to the Italian right quoted Berlusconi as saying he would never again return to government.
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/ 22 November 2006
It seems an unlikely place for Mali’s president to seek advice in times of crisis. A simple family compound in a bustling working class neighbourhood, where barefoot children compete with goats and belching mopeds for space to play on the dusty streets. But this is no ordinary family.
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/ 22 November 2006
The township residential property market is showing more vibrancy than that of formerly white suburbs, media reports said on Wednesday. First National Bank Home Loans CEO Ed Grondel said the township market is performing better than the national metropolitan market in more than one respect.
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/ 22 November 2006
Iran has promised to support Zimbabwe against ”a few bully nations”, Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran did not recognise the current economic sanctions against Zimbabwe imposed by Western countries.
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/ 22 November 2006
Wealthy tourists jetting into South Africa to stay at luxury safari lodges pay top dollar for the illusion of danger, epitomised by a trumpeting elephant or a lion moving in for a kill. But lodge workers and the impoverished surrounding communities face a threat far more deadly than the leopards and lions that thrill the visitors.
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/ 22 November 2006
The actor Michael Richards, better known as Cosmo Kramer in the long-running TV show Seinfeld, has apologised for a racist outburst that was captured on film and broadcast across the United States. Richards took exception when some black audience members talked during his act at a Los Angeles comedy club on Friday.
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/ 22 November 2006
The spread of the HIV/Aids pandemic continues unabated, with the number of people infected rising once more in some countries which had been thought to be beating the disease, according to the United Nations. There are now 39,5-million living with HIV infection, according to the annual UNAids report, released ahead of World Aids Day on December 1.