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/ 28 November 2006
The heads of the United States’s big-three car manu-facturers were granted a long-awaited audience at the White House last week to plead the case for help in overcoming chronic financial problems that have decimated jobs and led to scores of factory closures.
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/ 28 November 2006
Honda has followed a 4×4 trend in making the new CR-V more of a family wagon than a true off-roader. The third-generation newcomer has a 25mm lower centre of gravity, a 30mm wider rear track, car-like styling and a more luxurious interior. All of this makes sense when you consider that very few of these vehicles are ever going to be called upon to do much serious off-roading.
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/ 28 November 2006
Something very, very wrong is happening. I’m flying along the windy, cypress-lined roads of Pebble Beach in California being chased by a hairdryer. Or at least that’s what it sounds like. "Do you drive many high-performance cars?" asks Mike Harrigan, an executive from Tesla motors. He sits in the passenger seat as I take the wheel of his $100 000 vehicle, and he watches over my progress as if the future of the planet depends on this car, writes Dan Glaister.
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/ 28 November 2006
Police officers have pinned down the whereabouts of C-Max escapee Annanias Mathe using cellphone records, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday. It is believed the 29-year-old Mozambican national has not crossed the border and is still in Gauteng.
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/ 28 November 2006
Cosmetic surgery is altering not just how people look but how they feel by changing perceptions of middle age, a study showed on Monday. Global research group AC Nielsen surveyed people in 42 countries and found 60% of Americans, the world’s biggest consumers of cosmetic surgery and anti-ageing skincare, believe their sixties are the new middle age.
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/ 28 November 2006
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) had no knowledge of Schabir Shaik’s reported efforts to take his case to the Constitutional Court, a spokesperson said on Monday. ”You’ll have to check with his lawyers, we don’t know anything about it,” said Makhosini Nkosi.
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/ 28 November 2006
The nations of Africa and South America, whose leaders gather at a summit in Nigeria this week, are identifying areas of common ground after their shared histories of colonialism. Talk of South-South cooperation will dominate proceedings at the talks in Nigeria at a time when Latin American powerhouses such as Brazil and Venezuela are striving for a greater presence on the continent.
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/ 28 November 2006
It is a city so protective of its romantic skyline that skyscrapers have been banned in the historic centre for more than 30 years. But Paris on Monday unveiled plans for a vast glass-enveloped office block that will become its tallest commercial building and loftiest construction since the Eiffel tower was inaugurated in 1889.
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/ 28 November 2006
Dan Aykroyd has turned to an unexpected source of help in his attempt to reinvent himself as a producer of fine wines. The film star and comedian has launched a range of wines under his own name from his native Canada and has turned to the urbane Manhattan novelist, Jay McInerney, for final approval.
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/ 28 November 2006
After enjoying standing ovations in Oxford, the Afrocentric incarnation of Julius Caesar is now playing in Johannesburg, writes Thebe Mabanga.