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/ 25 October 2006
Microsoft announced on Tuesday a plan to give holiday-season computer buyers discounts on upgrades to its Vista operating system and new-generation Microsoft Office suite due out next year. The software giant’s aim was to overcome reservations of shoppers inclined to strip their year-end gift lists of products based on soon-to-be outdated Microsoft software.
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/ 25 October 2006
The increase in South Africa’s consumer price index excluding mortgage rate changes (CPIX) for metro and other areas, which is used by the South African Reserve Bank for its inflation target, was up 5,1% year-on-year (y/y) in September after a 5% y/y increase in August.
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/ 25 October 2006
Top seeds Marcos Baghdatis and Gaston Gaudio were packing their bags on Tuesday after being ousted in the first round of the €659 000 Lyon ATP tennis tournament. Home hope Arnaud Clement dispatched number one seeded Baghdatis 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 as lowly German Simon Greul hammered Argentine Gaudio.
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/ 25 October 2006
Fifa president Sepp Blatter praised the performance of officials at this year’s World Cup despite some contentious decisions and a referee showing a player three yellow cards. ”I am very satisfied with the referees’ performances at the 2006 World Cup. They achieved more than their counterparts in Korea/Japan in 2002,” Blatter said.
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/ 25 October 2006
Kenya have been handed an indefinite ban from all international competitions by football’s world governing body Fifa on Tuesday, according to reports from Nairobi. Fifa’s disciplinary panel are reported to have suspended the country for failing to respect agreements to resolve recurrent problems in their football association.
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/ 25 October 2006
The African Leopards, the continent’s development rugby team, will play the British Army Senior XV at the Aldershot military stadium, near London, on November 23. ”The 2006 Leopards will represent the best of rugby in Africa,” said Abdelaziz Bougja, president of the Confederation of African Rugby.
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/ 25 October 2006
South African specialist banker Investec Bank was on Wednesday announced by the Australian Rugby Union as the new naming rights partner for the highly successful Super 14 tournament for the next four years, to the end of the current Sanzar broadcast deal. The tournament, which kicks off on Friday February 2 2007, will be known in Australia as the Investec Super 14.
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/ 25 October 2006
Japanese tourists feel so let down by Paris shop assistants that they need treatment for a type of depression known as ”Paris Syndrome”. ”There are around 20 cases a year of the syndrome and it has been happening for several years,” said Miyupi Kusama, an administrator at the Japanese embassy in Paris.
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/ 25 October 2006
Ailing Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang would probably spend the rest of the week in hospital, South African Broadcasting Corporation television news
reported on Tuesday. Although she had shown a remarkable improvement in the past few days, she would probably be discharged only at the end of the week.
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/ 25 October 2006
Niger said on Tuesday it planned to expel 150 000 Arabs, who fled conflict in neighbouring Chad two decades ago, because of tensions with indigenous rural communities in the West African nation. The nomadic Arabs sought refuge in Niger during the 1980s from a series of armed conflicts which shook Chad, as Libyan-backed forces tried to conquer the country.