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/ 5 December 2006
Australia beat England by six wickets with 19 balls to spare on an extraordinary final day to win the second Test and take a 2-0 lead in the Ashes series on Tuesday. Australia needed 168 for victory off 36 overs after England’s batting inexplicably crumbled, the touring side losing their last nine wickets for 60 runs to be all out for just 129.
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/ 5 December 2006
This week, a major film opens in the United States. Nothing unusual about that, but this one is unique. It has no stars, its plot is obscure, it has a made-up word for a title, it is told in a Mayan dialect and it has subtitles. Oh, and its famous director is most recently known for an anti-semitic outburst he unleashed this summer when stopped for drunk driving near his home in Malibu.
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/ 5 December 2006
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger insisted on Monday there was no rift between himself and captain Thierry Henry. Henry, who faces several weeks on the sidelines with a sciatic nerve problem, was reported to have stormed out of training on Friday after learning he would not play against Tottenham.
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/ 5 December 2006
The Goof, as Walt Disney called him, is back. Nearly 50 years after Disney shifted focus from short cartoons to feature-length animation, the company has decided to return to the form. The first short will be a reprise of the "how to" series popular in the 40s and 50s in which Goofy plays the American Everydog, befuddled by the complexities of modern life.
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/ 5 December 2006
The polonium-210 poisoner who claimed the life of the former spy Alexander Litvinenko may never face British justice because Russian citizens cannot be extradited to stand trial. As a team of Scotland Yard detectives touched down at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on Monday night to interview a series of possible witnesses, the scale of the judicial and political problems which they are likely to face was becoming clear.
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/ 5 December 2006
The adventure would not be out of place in an anthology of ancient tales of foolhardy mariners. A pensioner who set sail for the Caribbean in a homemade boat because he liked pictures of the tropical islands has reached his destination after overcoming violent storms, shipwrecks, burglary, severe damage to his vessel and eight months marooned in Norfolk.
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/ 5 December 2006
Good governance in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was the key to dealing with HIV/Aids, Judge Edwin Cameron said on Monday. ”Where there are human rights abuse, we cannot deal properly with Aids,” Cameron said in Johannesburg at the launch of the Aids Rights Alliance for Southern Africa’s report.
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/ 5 December 2006
Fiji’s military chief said on Tuesday the army had taken over the country, plunging the South Pacific island nation into its fourth coup in 20 years. ”As of six o’clock this evening the military has taken over the running of the government and the country,” Commander Frank Bainimarama told a news conference in Suva, the capital.
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/ 5 December 2006
Charles Leonard reviews the latest released on the music-loving Light in the Attic Records.
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/ 5 December 2006
A Chinese province has banned its tourists from wearing counterfeit clothes overseas to avoid flagrant abuse of intellectual property rights and to protect its image, local media said on Tuesday. The government in the north-eastern province of Jilin had also banned carrying or sending pirated goods, including CDs and DVDs, overseas.