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/ 23 November 2005
While movie-goers around the world await the thunderous arrival of the new <i>King Kong</i> re-make in cinemas next month, the giant ape is already rampaging towards department stores and Christmas trees in the form of a computer game.
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/ 23 November 2005
Credit cards are the cheapest way to bank — as long as you pay off your full amount each month. Although there is an annual card fee there are no monthly fees, no transaction charges when purchasing and you can get up to 52 days interest free. The interest rate paid on credit balances is often higher than cheque accounts and you can even link them to Internet banking to pay your bills.
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/ 23 November 2005
The name of a company allegedly responsible for the unlawful felling of indigenous trees in Randburg recently, so as to give better sight to billboards located on the busy Hans Strijdom thoroughfare, has been confirmed to eMedia by Johannesburg City Parks and industry body Out of Home Media SA.
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/ 23 November 2005
A millennium has passed, but the massacre is still chilling: a king and queen of ancient Cancuen, more than 30 nobles and pregnant women, are overwhelmed by their attackers and murdered with spears and axes. Deep in Guatemala’s Peten rainforest, the ruins of the sprawling palace in the old royal city have revealed skeletons and the last-minute panic that overtook Cancuen before it was overcome by marauders.
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/ 23 November 2005
As Pastor Thandi Sithole walked into the bereaved family’s shack, at the back of the main house in Mapetla, Soweto, she was hit by the smell of poverty. "It’s difficult to explain it, but poverty has a smell," Sithole said. "The mother of the deceased sat huddled in a corner next to a rickety chair. A few weeks ago, she buried her four-month-old granddaughter. Now the mother was dead.
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/ 23 November 2005
In a landmark ruling that opens the way for compensation claims against oil conglomerates, the High Court of Benin City in Nigeria has declared the flaring of natural gas illegal. Justice CV Nwokorie ruled that toxic flares that burn off natural gases, a by-product of oil extraction, contravened provisions of the Nigerian Constitution that guarantee citizens the right to life and human dignity.
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/ 23 November 2005
In an article published in The New York Times recently, columnist Maureen Dowd has written the definitive precis of new-wave misogyny. The piece, taken from her new book Are Men Necessary?, appears to be addressing the fact that we’re all in ”a muddle in the boardroom, the bedroom and the situation room”.
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/ 22 November 2005
Fifteen people were killed and 25 wounded on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a marketplace in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said. Police rushed to the market after a small bomb exploded there. A suicide bomber then drove in at speed, ramming a police car with his vehicle and setting off a large explosion.
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/ 22 November 2005
”Dirty bomb” suspect Jose Padilla, a United States citizen held without charges for more than three years, faces charges of conspiring to ”murder, kidnap and maim persons” overseas, under an indictment unsealed on Tuesday. A grand jury in Miami returned the indictment against Padilla and four others.