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/ 19 November 2006
Ireland’s Padraig Harrington upset Tiger Woods to win the Dunlop Phoenix tournament after an astonishing birdie on the second play-off hole on Sunday. The 2006 European Order of Merit winner bravely blasted his second shot through a narrow gap in a Y-shaped tree after driving into the rough and then pitched to within two feet.
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/ 19 November 2006
Scotland outgunned the Pacific Islanders 34-22 at Murrayfield on Saturday but they weren’t in any mood for a party at the final whistle. The triumph was soured by two more serious-looking injuries in the build-up to the Six Nations Championship and the World Cup.
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/ 19 November 2006
South African rugby coach Jake White said on Saturday that his Springbok side threw away what would have been their first victory against England at Twickenham since 1997. The Springboks surrendered an 18-point cushion to lose 23-21 and gift England coach Andy Robinson some breathing space as he battles to keep his job.
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/ 19 November 2006
The rain gods might have provided welcome relief in abundance to an arid Atteridgeville on Saturday afternoon, but they produced few favours for Black Leopards as they slithered out of the lucrative Telkom Knockout at the quarterfinal stage after a 3-1 defeat against Mamelodi Sundowns at the Super Stadium.
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/ 19 November 2006
The Orlando Pirates ”Ship of Misery” continued to sink into a sea of soccer oblivion at Ellis Park on Saturday night as The Buccaneers tumbled out of the Telkom Knockout competition while going down 1-0 to Santos. And elimination at the quarterfinal stage followed the same uncanny path as most of Pirates’ other setbacks this season.
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/ 19 November 2006
Wayne Rooney scored two goals Saturday for Manchester United to beat Sheffield United 2-1 and maintain their three-point lead atop the Premier League. Rooney scored in the 30th and 75th minutes, rallying the Red Devils who fell behind to a 13th-minute goal by Keith Gillespie. It was Man United’s seventh straight league victory.
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/ 19 November 2006
Several hundred Palestinians formed a human shield around the Gaza Strip home of a militant targeted by the Israeli army on the weekend, prompting the military to call off a threatened air strike. Between 200 to 300 neighbours flocked to the family home of Wail Barud in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip after receiving an Israeli warning that the house would be destroyed, witnesses said.
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/ 19 November 2006
Iraqis ”don’t have a future” if they give in to the sectarian tensions that are tearing apart their society, United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said during a visit to Vietnam on Saturday in one of the starkest warnings on the present violent trajectory of the country. Her comments emerged amid a tranche of bleak prognoses for the region.
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/ 19 November 2006
The African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee on Saturday reaffirmed its confidence in the South African police force and law-enforcement agencies. Every effort should be made to assist the police and law-enforcement agencies, using resources and capacity from all sectors of society, ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said.
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/ 19 November 2006
The African Union on Saturday reported a heavy civilian toll after Sudanese forces and allied militia this week conducted raids in the war-ravaged western region of Darfur. The AU Mission in Sudan reported a ”heavy toll on the civilian population”.