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/ 27 November 2006
The privatisation of key state-owned assets is no longer the flavour of the year owing to the South African Communist Party having placed this matter in the arena of public debate. The party said the shift had taken place soon enough "to prevent terrible damage done to key public assets".
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/ 27 November 2006
A man armed with grenades and guns and accompanied by his daughter took over a junior high school for several hours in central Tehran Monday, a media correspondent on the scene said. Police initially said the man and a woman aged about 35 took over the school, but a boy released before the siege ended said a girl of about his own age — 13 — was with the man.
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/ 27 November 2006
An Iranian military aircraft crashed at a Tehran airport on Monday, killing at least 37 people, state-run television reported. It was the latest in a string of aviation disasters to hit the Islamic Republic. The television report said one person was in hospital after surviving the crash in the Russian-designed Antonov-74.
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/ 27 November 2006
Elton John’s latest Australian tour got off to an inauspicious start when the British pop superstar had to leave the stage briefly to be sick, local media reported on Monday. John was about to perform Crocodile Rock, one of the most popular songs of his four-decade career, on Sunday when he felt unwell and left the stage in Brisbane for about five minutes.
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/ 27 November 2006
Humpback whales have a type of brain cell seen only in humans, the great apes, and other cetaceans such as dolphins, researchers reported on Monday. This might mean such whales are more intelligent than they have been given credit for, and suggests the basis for complex brains either evolved more than once, or have gone unused by most species of animals.
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/ 27 November 2006
Fifa president Sepp Blatter hit out on Monday at rich clubs with inflated squads, accusing them of buying too many players and depriving smaller teams from being competitive. ”There is kind of like a traffic jam of players in Europe,” he said at the Soccerex conference in Dubai.
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/ 27 November 2006
Ange Mukarusagara never thought she would get the chance to use a computer at school. That used to be the exclusive privilege of a handful of students at the National University of Rwanda. But times are changing. The tiny Central African country wants to become one of the most plugged-in countries on the continent.
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/ 27 November 2006
The Springbok rugby team’s management and players have strongly condemned the behaviour of some people who displayed the old South African flag during the two clashes against England at Twickenham over the past two weeks. Among the thousands of fans at Twickenham on Sunday, at least four were carrying old South African flags.
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/ 27 November 2006
Ricardo Carvalho headed in an equaliser in the 69th minute on Sunday to help Chelsea earn a 1-1 draw with Manchester United and keep the defending champions within three points of the Red Devils at the top of the Premier League. Louis Saha gave United the lead in the 29th minute.
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/ 27 November 2006
The Titans beat the Eagles by one run on Sunday in their Supersport Series four-day match played at SuperSport Park in Centurion. This is only the second such result in the history of South African first-class cricket and the 32nd in all first-class cricket.