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/ 2 December 2006
The unknown assassin who killed Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy, appeared on Friday night to have claimed a second victim after tests revealed that one of the dead man’s associates had been poisoned with the same radioactive isotope, polonium-210.
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/ 2 December 2006
England’s slow and cautious batting game plan invokes memories of the attritional era of the 1960s Ashes cricket as they try to set a platform to level the series, Australian media said on Saturday. England, one-nil down in the series, went to stumps on Friday’s opening day at 266 for three with Paul Collingwood poised for a century on 98 and Kevin Pietersen not out 60.
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/ 2 December 2006
The United States Supreme Court stepped into a dispute over free speech rights on Friday involving a suspended high school student and his banner that proclaimed ”Bong Hits 4 Jesus”. Justices agreed to hear the appeal by the Juneau, Alaska, school board and principal Deborah Morse of a lower court ruling that allowed the student’s civil rights lawsuit to proceed.
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/ 2 December 2006
Christ is missing from Christmas in this small town. The community’s holiday display has a manger with shepherds, a guiding star, camels and a palm tree, but no baby Jesus, Mary or Joseph. The parks superintendent said Jesus was left out because of concerns about the separation of church and state.
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/ 2 December 2006
The chief’s story is dark and familiar. Attackers on horseback shattering his dawn ritual of tea brewing — shouting racial venom, killing men, raping women. The survivors fleeing to a makeshift camp, sheltering from the desert sun under lengths of cloth strung from thorn trees.
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/ 2 December 2006
Distraught survivors searched piles of bodies for the faces of their loved ones in the central Philippines on Saturday after landslides triggered by Typhoon Durian left hundreds dead. Driving rain and winds of up to 225kph dislodged tonnes of mud and boulders from the slopes of Mount Mayon, an active volcano about 320km south of Manila.
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/ 2 December 2006
The cheerful Super Silly Science Game is ideal for cash-strapped classrooms. For a start, teachers can get it free. It’s also fun. So much fun that students playing it may not realise they’re refreshing their knowledge and skills at the same time.
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/ 1 December 2006
British scientists probing the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday a second man had been poisoned by radiation. Media reports said the man was an Italian he met at a London restaurant. ”We are confirming that one further person … has been found to have a significant quantity of polonium 210 in their body,” a spokesperson for the Health Protection Agency said.
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/ 1 December 2006
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Two ethical controversies flared into life on World Aids Day on Friday as the United States and South Africa backed sexual abstinence in their mix of programmes to fight Aids and British leader Tony Blair lashed at religious bans on condoms. US President George Bush joined other leaders around the world in renewing a vow to combat the pandemic.
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/ 1 December 2006
Vernon Gibbs and Tony Halls got married on Friday in South Africa’s first gay wedding, a day after the government made same-sex marriages legal. The couple, who run a guest lodge on the south-western coast, went down to the local home affairs office in the town of George.