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/ 10 December 2006
India beat the Rest of South Africa by 96 runs on the third day of their four-day match at Sedgars Park on Saturday. With rain and lightning threatening, and the light becoming increasingly gloomy, India wrapped up the Rest of South Africa’s tail-end, with the last three wickets falling for just six runs.
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/ 10 December 2006
A convincing 4-0 home victory for Liverpool against Fulham on Saturday maintained the club’s recent Premiership improvement and featured Jamie Carragher’s first league goal in nearly eight years. The Liverpool and England defender scored his team’s second goal as they amassed three in 12 minutes early in the second half to kill off a dogged Fulham team.
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/ 10 December 2006
In the very last of the four minutes of extra-time, Shaun Bartlett eluded a packed goalmouth of Orlando Pirates defenders to swoop on a headed opportunity for Kaizer Chiefs and made the score 1-1 in a throbbing Premier League derby before 80 000 spectators at FNB Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
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/ 10 December 2006
Flying Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka to the United Kingdom cost taxpayers an estimated R4,55-million, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday. This was ”irregular and way out of proportion with reasonable standards”, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said in a statement.
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/ 10 December 2006
South Africa’s most dangerous criminal, Annanias Mathe, did not use vaseline to slip out of his cell window in the high security C-Max prison but walked out after paying warders an R80 000 bribe, reported the Sunday Times. Mathe escaped on November 18 and was shot and recaptured by a vehicle tracking company on Monday when he stole a car.
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/ 10 December 2006
Tottenham put relegation candidates Charlton to the sword at White Hart Lane on Saturday as they secured their sixth straight home win in the Premiership with a dominant 5-1 victory. A brace of goals from Bulgaria striker Dimitar Berbatov along with efforts from Teenu Tainio, Jermain Defoe and Steed Malbranque secured the win while the Addicks consolation came from an own-goal by Michael Dawson.
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/ 10 December 2006
The painting hanging in his parents’ living room in Berlin is one of his dearest memories. Percy Henschel’s home was destroyed a long time ago and his mother killed by the Nazis, but the 74-year-old German is convinced that the work, a magnificent religious painting in oil by the 16th-century artist Lucas Cranach, still exists.
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/ 9 December 2006
New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming has no regrets about the controversial dismissal of Muttiah Muralitharan in the first Test on Saturday, saying the Sri Lankan made a mistake and paid the price. Muralitharan was run out after completing a single which gave Kumar Sangakkara his century.
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/ 9 December 2006
Has the International Monetary Fund (IMF) become completely irrelevant? Is this world body, set up more than six decades ago to foster global economic stability and help countries facing financial crises, really reforming itself? And will it become more responsive to the aspirations of developing countries?
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/ 9 December 2006
Members of the Barmy Army travelling supporters’ group which follows the England cricket team have put the spice back into the Ashes series by ordering a curry delivery from back home to go all the way out to Australia. Staff at the Bombay Nights Indian restaurant in Bath, south-west England, were bowled over when they received the order from a curry-starved English fan watching the Ashes series against Australia.