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/ 22 November 2006
An East London businessman has taken First National Bank to court over what he claimed was bad investment advice, media reports said on Wednesday. John Alexander is demanding R272 232 in damages from FNB’s Southernwood branch and one of their financial advisers, Michael Ries.
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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.
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/ 22 November 2006
Pupils who were due to sit examinations at their high school in South Africa are suspected of being behind a fire on Wednesday, which burned down the building, police said. Two classrooms in a prefabricated building at Durban’s Star College were burned to the ground, hours before pupils were to have sat matriculation and internal exams.
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/ 22 November 2006
Two men were arrested outside Potchefstroom on Wednesday after they allegedly blew up an ATM at a shopping complex and sped off. Superintendent Louis Jacobs said the police were investigating the possibility of linking the two men with a similar incident on November 12 at Wedela on the N12 near Fochville.
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/ 22 November 2006
The Australian state of New South Wales is willing to help South Africa stage the 2010 Soccer World Cup if it is unable to meet its commitments, Premier Morris Iemma said on Wednesday. Iemma told reporters that he was ”salivating at the prospect” of the state acting as emergency host to one of the world’s biggest sporting events.
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/ 22 November 2006
Geneticist Adil Pacheco took blood samples on Friday from three puppies in a poor neighbourhood in Passo Fundo in southern Brazil to settle a dispute over a claim they were born from a cat. ”It’s rather simple really. If the puppies prove to have 78 chromosomes, they are dogs. If they have 38, they are cats,” said Pacheco.
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/ 22 November 2006
England received a welcome boost on the eve of the first Ashes Test when injured batsman Ian Bell completed a net session to boost his chances of selection. The in-form Bell, who scored a century in England’s last warm-up match against South Australia at the weekend, had been in danger of missing the opening Test after he was struck on the wrist by teammate James Anderson.
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/ 22 November 2006
Lebanon was on a knife-edge on Wednesday, with the assassination of another leading anti-Syrian politician adding to fears the country may be again torn apart by civil strife. Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, scion of one of the country’s most prominent Christian families, was gunned down on Tuesday in an attack that drew condemnation from world leaders.
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/ 22 November 2006
Amid speculation about his political future, Italy’s former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, went on trial on Tuesday with David Mills, the estranged husband of the British Culture Secretary, Tessa Jowell. An article published by a newspaper close to the Italian right quoted Berlusconi as saying he would never again return to government.
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/ 22 November 2006
The township residential property market is showing more vibrancy than that of formerly white suburbs, media reports said on Wednesday. First National Bank Home Loans CEO Ed Grondel said the township market is performing better than the national metropolitan market in more than one respect.