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/ 21 December 2006

Harmison retires from one-day cricket

England fast bowler Steve Harmison announced on Thursday he was retiring from one-day cricket, three months before the World Cup. Harmison (28) decided to suddenly quit after being left out of England’s 16-man squad for the upcoming triangular series whit Australia and New Zealand, the last tournament before next year’s World Cup in the West Indies.

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/ 21 December 2006

Legal wrangling over Cape Town’s World Cup stadium

Cape Town mayor Helen Zille on Wednesday evening rejected a claim by Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool that the city had committed a major procedural blunder over the proposed Green Point 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium. An angry Rasool called on Zille to summon an urgent council meeting to rectify what he said was an error threatening the already-fragile construction timetable.

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/ 21 December 2006

Slouching towards 2010

How does one begin to capture the face of South African football in 2006? While the unfolding story of the 2010 Soccer World Cup has tended to dominate the news, the enduring shortcomings of the domestic game — football authorities’ inability to create viable support structures — continue to blight some of its well-intentioned initiatives.

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/ 21 December 2006

Baby put through airport X-ray

A woman passed her one-month-old grandson through the X-ray machine at Los Angeles international airport, it was revealed on Wednesday. A security worker saw the baby entering the machine sitting on a plastic bin intended for hand luggage and jackets. The official hurriedly pulled the bin out along the conveyor belt.

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/ 21 December 2006

A victory for the little guy

It was by any measure a remarkable protest. More than 800 Achuar tribespeople from the borders of Peru and Ecuador, headed by their traditional leaders with their red and yellow feathered headdresses, arrived by the boatload in the twilight hours at four oil wells in the middle of the Amazonian rainforest.