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/ 27 October 2005
Doctors treating soccer star George Best said on Thursday he is stable as he fights for his life. The former Manchester United star, who had a life-saving liver transplant three years ago but went back to hard drinking, has been in a hospital’s intensive-care unit for a month. His condition deteriorated dramatically on Wednesday.
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/ 27 October 2005
Israel intensified demands on Thursday for Tehran to be expelled from the United Nations amid an international outcry over a call by Iran’s president for the Jewish state to be wiped off the map. The international community expressed outrage at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s inflammatory speech.
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/ 27 October 2005
”Problems” with an electronic signalling system could have caused Wednesday night’s head-on collision between the Blue Train and a Shosholoza Meyl passenger train, Spoornet’s chief executive said. The Northern Cape health department said five people were critically injured in the collision.
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/ 27 October 2005
Singapore on Thursday stood firm on its decision to hang a 25-year-old Australian drug runner, saying he got a fair trial and was fully aware of the city-state’s tough anti-narcotics laws. Nguyen Tuong Van, a Melbourne resident of Vietnamese origin, is now headed for the gallows following Singapore President SR Nathan’s rejection of clemency appeals by the Australian government.
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/ 27 October 2005
A clinical trial into the effects of allowing couples to choose the sex of their babies has been given the go-ahead at a United States fertility clinic. The controversial study was given the green light by an ethics committee after nine years of consultation.
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/ 27 October 2005
What awaits young journalism graduates in South Africa and what motivates them to choose this career? Is it money, or is it a genuine passion? Some graduates believe that money is a contributing factor to journalists abandoning their jobs, often for the world of public relations. Others would rather knock on doors till they get a job in journalism.
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/ 27 October 2005
I have never been a big fan of photo-sharing websites such as Flickr.com, even when they are given fancy names like ”social networking”. It is bad enough having to fend off friends advancing towards you with fat wads of holiday snaps without having half the bloggers in the world trying to nobble you into watching their smiling faces blot out whatever building is lurking behind.
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/ 27 October 2005
After firming earlier in the session on Thursday, the JSE was lower at midday, with global resources giant Anglo American continuing to dominate trade. Trade in Anglo — 2,6-million shares valued at R522,8-million in 68 deals — made up a quarter of the JSE’s total volume.
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/ 27 October 2005
Russia put Iran’s first ever satellite into space on Thursday, as a Kosmos-3M rocket blasted off from the northwestern Plesetsk launch site carrying one Russian and seven foreign devices, the Russian space agency said. The Iranian press has described the satellite as being for telecommunications and research purposes.
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/ 27 October 2005
Ford Motor Company on Thursday launched its first ethanol-compatible sedan — the Ford Focus — on the Thai market. Ford Motor chairperson and chief executive officer Bill Ford announced the launch of the Ford Focus model in Hua Hin, 130km south of Bangkok, where he was presiding over the opening of a new Ford showroom in the seaside resort.