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/ 20 November 2006
He helped to create the animal rights movement — now Peter Singer wants to change the way we eat. He tells Patrick Barkham why McDonald’s, GM crops and food miles are not all bad.
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/ 20 November 2006
Architects debate the future of urban design at Ground Zero, where plans are afoot to make the world’s most attack-proof building, writes Steve Rose.
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/ 20 November 2006
”Madam president, please can you intervene as we are being bombarded by the honourable member’s cellphone,” an MP stood to complain about a fellow MP whose phone continually emitted an irksome guttural ringtone as Imbia Sylvester from Cameroon was making his presentation.
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/ 20 November 2006
Development projects that never get off the ground and well-meaning agreements that come to nothing are symptoms of inadequate capacity in African countries, which the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) plans to tackle. Since the 1950s, international and continental institutions have concerned themselves with building capacity in Africa, but critics say their models have failed to strengthen capacity in the long term.
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/ 19 November 2006
Butch James, Jacques Cronje and Pierre Spies will all miss the second of South Africa’s two Tests against England this coming weekend after sustaining knee injuries during the side’s 23-21 defeat by the world champions at Twickenham on Saturday, a team statement said.
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/ 19 November 2006
The Democratic Alliance (DA) lashed out at the ruling African National Congress (ANC) on Sunday for not discussing the friendship between police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi and arrested businessman Glenn Agliotti at its top-level meeting over the weekend.
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/ 19 November 2006
Zimbabwe has the highest number of orphans in the world in relation to its population, mainly due to the HIV/Aids pandemic blighting the economically ravaged country, a United Nations official said on Sunday. ”Zimbabwe has the highest number of orphans per capita in the world,” James Elder, a spokesperson for the UN Children’s Fund told the media.
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/ 19 November 2006
World number one Roger Federer underlined his absolute dominance of men’s tennis when he routed American James Blake 6-0 6-3 6-4 on Sunday to win the Masters Cup for the third time in four years. The Swiss was beaten by David Nalbandian in last year’s final but there was no upset this time.
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/ 19 November 2006
Israel lashed out Sunday against a United Nations resolution calling for a probe into a botched Gaza shelling as ministers convened to discuss the ongoing battle against Palestinian rocket attacks. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert criticised the UN General Assembly resolution calling for a fact-finding mission to probe an Israeli shelling that killed 19 Palestinians this month.
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/ 19 November 2006
Further Travelgate fraud amounting to R19-million was blocked from being investigated months before he was fired, Parliament’s former chief finance officer Harry Charlton has said, the Sunday Tribune reported. The latest fraud, Charlton said in a sworn affidavit, implicated a number of South Africa’s highest ranking officials.