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/ 22 November 2006
A terrific free kick by Shunsuke Nakamura gave Celtic an historic place in the Champions League knock-out stages on Tuesday as they edged English giants Manchester United 1-0. After what was dubbed as the ”Battle of Britain”, United’s defeat means the two-time European Cup winners need a point in their final match at home to Benfica to avoid exiting the competition.
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/ 22 November 2006
It will be an unlikely scenario at Green Point stadium on Wednesday night when Moroka Swallows carry the torch for the dimmed fortunes of Soweto’s glamour clubs as they face Ajax Cape Town in the last of the Telkom Knockout quarterfinals. With Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs already eliminated from the tournament, Swallows will be out to swoop into the semifinals.
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/ 22 November 2006
The waiting is almost over, with the much-hyped Ashes cricket series between Australia and England finally getting under way in Brisbane on Thursday after 14 months of mounting expectations. England’s magnificent series win over the Aussies last year has generated interest and ticket sales not witnessed down under since the halcyon days of Don Bradman and the 1932/33 ”Bodyline” series.
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/ 22 November 2006
Positive sentiment towards equities took the JSE onto higher ground on Wednesday, with a lot of the buying coming from offshore. Platinum shares were under pressure, however, after the platinum price spiralled down to earth with a thud after rocketing to a record high on Tuesday.
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/ 22 November 2006
The long-rumoured arrival of a hybrid cellphone and iPod music player from Apple has morphed from a question of ”if” to ”when” among fans and analysts. Since the introduction of the iPod five years ago, the company has sold more than 67-million of the devices and more than 1,5-billion songs from its iTunes online music store.
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/ 22 November 2006
Rare Abyssinian lion cubs are being poisoned at a zoo in Ethiopia because staff cannot afford to keep them, a wildlife official said on Wednesday. The dead cubs are sold to taxidermists for each to be stuffed and sold as ornaments, said Muhedin Abdulaziz, the administrator at the Lion Zoo in the capital, Addis Ababa.
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/ 22 November 2006
Just south of Luanda lies one of Angola’s biggest construction sites, part of a plan to transform the ramshackle capital of one of Africa’s top oil producers into the best city money can buy. Freshly laid roads wind between a 120-store shopping mall, a state-of-the-art health club, schools, clinics and luxury condominiums.
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/ 22 November 2006
Lebanon began three days of mourning on Wednesday for an anti-Syrian Cabinet minister whose assassination, blamed by his allies on Damascus, has reignited his country’s deep factional rivalries. Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, a Christian, was gunned down as he drove through a Christian suburb of Beirut on Tuesday.
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/ 22 November 2006
European Union experts say the United States is pushing to get a regional peacekeeping force deployed in Somalia and this could trigger a wider war in the Horn of Africa. The EU has warned that such a deployment could give cover for a larger military operation against the Islamists who control Mogadishu.
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/ 22 November 2006
Some things never change. At least not at the Merkels’s breakfast table. Despite becoming Chancellor of Europe’s most populous country a year ago, Angela Merkel still prepares breakfast for her scientist husband, Joachim Sauer, she told Germany’s mass-circulation Bild newspaper on Wednesday.