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/ 26 February 2005
An upscale Hong Kong grocery store is being prosecuted after a customer allegedly discovered 575 beetles in a jar of cereal he bought, officials and media reports said on Saturday. The customer, lawyer Philip Dykes, said the breakfast cereal was ”too organic for my liking”, according to the South China Morning Post.
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/ 26 February 2005
More than 100 belly-dancers shimmied their way into the record books on Friday night, watched by appreciative fathers, husbands and boyfriends. The 116 dancers gathered at the Blairgowrie Recreation Centre from all over Johannesburg, hoping to create the largest number of belly-dancers ever seen gyrating under one roof.
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/ 26 February 2005
A police officer was shot dead and another was critically injured when 11 prisoners escaped from northern KwaZulu-Natal’s Eshowe police station on Friday, police said. Captain Musa Khaba said the police officers were feeding the prisoners in their holding cells when they were overpowered, and shot at. All the prisoners escaped.
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/ 26 February 2005
The young male hippo that made headlines last year after escaping from a nature reserve in Cape Town will soon start his own herd, City Parks and Nature Conservation said on Saturday. The hippo escaped from the Rondevlei Nature Reserve and took up residence in Zeekoevlei for several months until he was recaptured in December.
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/ 26 February 2005
The Stormers made easy meat of the Sharks as they notched up a 26-12 victory in their opening Super 12 match at Newlands on Friday night. Neil de Kock’s side should have led by considerably more than an eight-point margin at the interval, but were left to reflect on a number of missed opportunities through unforced errors and over-elaboration.
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/ 26 February 2005
The European Commission is threatening to fine Microsoft 5% of its global revenue for failing to comply with the sanctions imposed last year in a landmark antitrust ruling, it emerged on Friday. Relations between the European Union’s competition authorities — which fined the software group a record â,¬497-million — and Microsoft have sunk to a new low.
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/ 26 February 2005
As United States coast-to-coast crime waves go, it is not in the league of Bonnie and Clyde. It lacks both violence and avarice and is further hindered by an overabundance of pre-publicity. A couple of students from Cornwall are intent on making American criminal history by spending their summer breaking as many US laws as possible.
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/ 26 February 2005
Plans by Kenyan MPs to award themselves a R111 000 bonus have outraged a country already reeling from a string of corruption allegations. A parliamentary committee has recommended that each of the 222 MPs should receive 1,5-million Kenyan shillings when the Parliament ends in 2007. The committee has also recommended new constituency offices.
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/ 26 February 2005
Michael Jackson faces further legal action, from the family of a woman who died after she was moved in hospital, apparently to make way for the singer when he took ill on the way to court last week. Manuela Gomez Ruiz (74) was in the main trauma room at the Marian medical centre in Santa Maria, California, when Jackson developed ”flu-like symptoms”.
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/ 26 February 2005
Forget the little gold statuette and all that guff about best supporting whatever. The big winners at Sunday night’s Oscar ceremony will walk away with cashmere pyjama bottoms, mink eyelashes and a coffee maker. Presenters and performers at this year’s Oscar ceremony will receive a ”gift basket” expected to have a value of about R870 000.