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/ 20 November 2005
Tropical Storm Gamma deluged the Caribbean coast of Central America on Saturday, killing at least six people — three in flooding in Honduras and three in the crash of a small plane belonging to a lodge owned by United States filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola. On Saturday night, Gamma was moving at 10kph and was located about 400km east of the Belizean capital, Belize City.
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/ 20 November 2005
Disgraced 1970s glam rock star Gary Glitter has been arrested trying to flee Vietnam for Thailand and is accused of having sex with underage girls, Vietnamese police and state media said on Sunday. ”He was arrested on Saturday in Ho Chi Minh City,” said a police officer in Vung Tau city, 100km east of the southern Vietnamese business hub.
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/ 20 November 2005
The African National Congress’ national executive committee (NEC) is meeting for a third day at Esselen Park, east of Johannesburg, a party spokesperson said on Sunday morning. It had been scheduled to meet only on Friday and Saturday. The NEC was due to receive and discuss a report on ways to heal rifts in the party.
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/ 20 November 2005
A Japanese research probe moved within meters of an asteroid on Sunday, but officials then lost contact and it was unclear whether it had successfully landed to collect surface samples, Japan’s space agency said. The Hayabusa probe, which botched a rehearsal earlier this month, is on a mission to collect material from the asteroid during a brief landing and then bring it back to Earth.
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/ 20 November 2005
Close to 200 supporters of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood were arrested before the start of the second phase of polling in Egypt’s parliamentary elections opened on Sunday, security sources said. Observers and the Muslim Brothers have warned of a government crackdown following their major gains in the first round, during which they mustered 34 seats, double the tally in the 2000 polls.
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/ 20 November 2005
Tennis chiefs announced on Sunday that they were replacing the third set in doubles matches with a tie-breaker, brushing off objections from top players. The third set will consist of a first-to-10 tie-breaker to speed up play. There will also be no advantage played in the first two sets, with games decided by the first point after deuce.
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/ 20 November 2005
It takes guts to stare your food in the eyes and then swallow them, but once Norwegians are let loose on a smoked sheep’s head, they let nothing go to waste, except the bare bones of the skull. In Voss, a tiny town in the mountains near the south-west Norwegian fjords, people have always eaten the ”smalahove”, which means ”sheep’s head” in the local dialect.
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/ 20 November 2005
A 16-year-old Chinese boy studying in Singapore fell to his death from a hostel room after jumping up and down on his bed while playing a guitar, the Sunday Times reported. Li Xiao Meng, a private-school student from Beijing, was with his roommate Wang Bing Yi, also 16, in their third-floor room on Thursday night when the freak incident happened. Li’s bed was right next to an open window.
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/ 20 November 2005
International donors pledged -billion in aid to quake-hit Pakistan on Saturday as Kashmiri villagers made a historic and emotional foot crossing over the disputed boundary with India. The promises came during a one-day donor conference of about 50 countries in Islamabad bringing the total aid to ,4-billion.