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/ 5 September 2005
United States President George Bush on Monday nominated conservative Judge John Roberts, already his choice for a seat on the US Supreme Court, to replace the late chief justice William Rehnquist. ”I’m confident that the Senate can complete hearings and confirm him as chief justice within a month,” when the court resumes work, Bush said.
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/ 5 September 2005
Employees of a pine furniture shop in Woodmead were beaten and held at gunpoint in the third reported armed robbery of a business in Johannesburg on Monday morning. On Sunday, about 12 robbers stole an undisclosed amount of cash from the Emperor’s Palace casino near the Johannesburg International airport.
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/ 5 September 2005
A University of Oxford law graduate who works for Sotheby’s is living in a ditch to prove people can do without all the mod-cons, a British newspaper said on Sunday. Hugh Sawyer (32) always turns up impeccably dressed for his high-flier auction-house job in London while sleeping in the woods in Oxfordshire, southern England.
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/ 5 September 2005
You need a tough backside and points are awarded for hiding your pain when you flop into the water — welcome to the weird world of "dive-bombing", which held its world championships on Sunday. The event attracted competitors from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and The Netherlands.
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/ 5 September 2005
Insurgents launched a surprise attack on Baghdad’s heavily guarded interior ministry building early on Monday, killing two police officers and wounding several others, officials said. Meanwhile, Saddam Hussein’s lawyers complained they will not have enough time to prepare for his trial, which starts on October 19.
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/ 5 September 2005
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) last week approved Telkom’s new tariff structure in spite of the rise in installation and rental fees, it was announced on Monday. The government is planning to hold a second colloquium on telecommunications pricing next month.
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/ 5 September 2005
Parliament has given notice that two United Democratic Movement MPs who were expelled by their party the day before the floor-crossing window will not be replaced at present. Meanwhile, the Afrikaner-based Freedom Front Plus announced on Monday that it has lost its sole seat in the Mpumalanga legislature.
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/ 5 September 2005
Rescuers have plucked tens of thousands of terrified residents from the rooftops of their homes in New Orleans and along the Gulf Coast, capturing what may be the bulk of the survivors in readily visible locations. Now the more difficult door-to-door scouring begins, and it could take weeks, if not months.
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/ 5 September 2005
A Boeing 737-200 jetliner crashed on Monday into a densely populated suburb of the northern Indonesian city of Medan and burst into flames minutes after take-off, killing at least 137 people. The Mandala Airlines jet bound for Jakarta was carrying 117 passengers and crew when it slammed into the ground. At least 15 passengers survived.
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/ 5 September 2005
Terence Morgan, the tall, suave actor who appeared in 1950s films including Turn the Key Softly, Tread Softly Stranger and Dance, Little Lady, has died at the age of 83, his family said. His first film role was Laertes in Lawrence Olivier’s Hamlet in 1948.