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/ 20 September 2004
Real Madrid president Florentino Perez said on Monday he has accepted Jose Antonio Camacho’s resignation as coach and appointed his deputy Mariano Garcia Remon in a caretaker role. Real were thrashed 3-0 by Bayer Leverkusen in the European Champions League last week and lost 1-0 to modest Espanyol on Sunday.
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/ 20 September 2004
Legendary manager Brian Clough, who led unfashionable Nottingham Forest to two European Cup titles, died aged 69 on Monday. Clough, a great motivator and tactician who led Forest to two European Cup wins in 1979 and 1980, was a controversial character but also universally admired for his contribution to English football.
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/ 19 September 2004
A Malaysian woman has celebrated her birthday in a glass box containing more than 6 000 scorpions, with just days to go before reclaiming a bizarre world record. Nur Malena Hassan, who turned 27 on Saturday, plans to spend 36 days in the box after first setting the world record in 2001.
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/ 19 September 2004
Pornography and erotica have made their way into mainstream United States bookstores with guides to a better sex life written by adult film stars, seven months after Americans expressed shock over briefly seeing Janet Jackson’s breast on television. Porn queen Jenna Jameson has penned How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale.
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/ 19 September 2004
Louisiana voters overwhelmingly approved a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages and civil unions, one of up to 12 such measures on the ballot around the country this year. Only in New Orleans, home to a politically strong gay community, was the race relatively close.
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/ 19 September 2004
The computer has replaced the gun as the ideal weapon as criminals turn increasingly to the internet as a tool for separating Joe Public from his money, crime-fighters warned at an international conference in Strasbourg, France. Cyber-attacks on the unwary ”are becoming more and more frequent”.
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/ 19 September 2004
The Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council will meet on Sunday to consider a draft agreement drawn up on Friday evening in an attempt to resolve the public-service pay-rise impasse. The working group was set up by the government and labour unions on Friday morning to explore ”all possible options” for a resolution.
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/ 19 September 2004
The World Bank has granted the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) -million to develop community projects in education, health and food security, an official said on Saturday. Last year, the DRC began slowly emerging from a five-year war in which about 2,5-million people lost their lives.
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/ 19 September 2004
Thousands of mourners, of all races and creeds, packed the Aasvoëlkop Dutch Reformed Church in Northcliff on Saturday to pay their final respects to Afrikaans anti-apartheid activist Beyers Naude in a moving ceremony. ”Oom Bey” — once rejected by his own people for rejecting his church’s justification of apartheid — died on September 7 at the age of 89. President Thabo Mbeki said it was because of Naude that black and white South Africans could walk together.