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He is Germany’s most famous literary son, whose upright posture deep into old age impressed many of his contemporaries. But on Tuesday it emerged that Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — the biggest name in the German cultural pantheon and the German-speaking world’s answer to Shakespeare — suffered for more than 40 years from acute backache.
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/ 13 October 2004
The German version of the reality show Big Brother has run into trouble after one of its contestants told a series of offensive jokes about Jews on live national television, the broadcaster said on Wednesday. The head of pay-TV service Premiere, Georg Kofler, fired two employees who allowed the scene to be broadcast.
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/ 13 October 2004
No rebel forces will present themselves this week at a disarmament site in north-eastern Côte d’Ivoire, rebel spokesperson Sidiki Konate announced on Wednesday. ”We will not allow ourselves to be drawn into the political manipulation by President [Laurent] Gbagbo, who is fixated on that date,” Konate said.
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/ 13 October 2004
Two more South Africans were killed in Iraq on Tuesday, the Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed on Wednesday in Pretoria. Foreign Affairs spokesperson Ronnie Mamoepa said the government was still trying to gather details concerning the attack. He said however that the two men had been employed by Omega Risk Solutions, Iraq.
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/ 13 October 2004
Deputy President Jacob Zuma still owes more than R1-million for costs incurred in the construction of his Nkandla village in KwaZulu-Natal, the Durban High Court heard on Wednesday. Prosecutor Billy Downer said the state will prove that the source of the funding for Nkandla was a bribe from arms company Thomson CSF.
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/ 13 October 2004
Driven by demand for flash memory chips used in cell phones, Intel’s third-quarter profits rose 15% as the chip-making giant struggled to overcome lacklustre PC sales, growing inventory, product missteps and stiff competition. For the three months ended on September 25, Intel earned ,9-billion, or 30 cents per share, on sales of ,5-billion.
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DreamWorks Animation, which in the past decade has become one of the leaders in film animation, made a move toward going public on Tuesday by filing estimated terms of its initial public offering (IPO). The company said that it plans to offer 29-million shares at to each with expected proceeds of about -million in its initial public offering.
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Leading internet search engine Google said on Tuesday it was planning a big expansion of its India operations which are run from the southern cities of Hyderabad and Bangalore. ”We are committed to substantial growth in terms of both manpower and infrastructure at both these offices,” Sergey Brin, co-founder of the search engine, told reporters at a press conference.
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London Mayor Ken Livingstone unveiled plans on Tuesday to spend 10-billion pounds (,8-billion) over five years to improve commuting and travel on the city’s crumbling road and rail networks. ”This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reverse decades of under-investment,” Livingstone said.
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State prosecutor Billy Downer made a slide presentation to the Durban High Court on Wednesday showing the link between Schabir Shaik and Deputy President Jacob Zuma.
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