The Dolphins will be aiming to bounce back from a poor performance last month when they face the Titans in a top-of-the-table Supersport Series cricket clash in Pietermaritzburg, starting on Thursday. Also, the Diamond Eagles will be hoping the Christmas break hasn’t robbed them of any momentum.
Chelsea missed the chance to close to within four points of leaders Manchester United as they were held to a goalless draw on Tuesday at Aston Villa. Frank Lampard missed a golden chance in injury time to give the champions a victory, and Villa held on for a point — their second draw with Chelsea this season. The result leaves Chelsea six points off the pace.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon started his first day on the job on Tuesday by departing from the traditional UN opposition to the death penalty, saying nations can make their own decision. Ban was greeted by a UN honour guard, went to a UN meditation chapel to honour fallen peacekeepers, spoke to reporters and held a mass meeting with UN staff.
In its heyday as the world’s grandest ocean-going liner it provided a luxurious passage across the Atlantic for royalty, film stars and world leaders. Fred Astaire would dazzle passengers in the RMS Queen Mary‘s ballroom and Winston Churchill would swap stories with the captain in the state dining room that later came to be named after him.
The war waged by the French President, Jacques Chirac, against "Anglo-Saxon" cultural imperialism has suffered a blow as the Germans announced they were pulling out of a European search engine which it was hoped would rival Google. Last year Chirac announced a series of ambitious projects designed to challenge the global dominance of the United States.
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/ 29 December 2006
On the back of worse-than-expected trade data, the latest M3 and PSCE figures are another tick in the February interest rate hike column, say analysts. "These data have acted as counter-weights to the better-than-expected inflation data released earlier in December," say independent economic analysts RLJP.
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/ 26 December 2006
A Spanish doctor who has just examined Fidel Castro said on Tuesday the Cuban leader was recovering and did not have cancer. ”He asks every day to return to work, but doctors advise him not to,” surgeon Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido told a news conference in Madrid after returning from Cuba.
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/ 24 December 2006
The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a tough resolution on Saturday evening authorising sanctions against Iran for refusing to suspend its uranium enrichment programme, bringing to an end two months of often fractious negotiations aimed at pressuring Tehran to clarify its nuclear ambitions.
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/ 23 December 2006
Zuhair Abu Latifa’s toy shop is the first in a row of shops inside the Qalandia refugee camp, not far from the tall concrete wall that cuts off the occupied West Bank from Jerusalem. It is a single street in a tightly connected community, but it cuts across the entire spectrum of Palestinian politics.
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/ 23 December 2006
Festive-season travellers are paranoid about losing their luggage and many take insurance to cover this. But few of them realise how expensive it could be if one gets ill when travelling abroad. Medical cover can cost you as little as R230 for a two-week holiday, which will pay out up to R7,5-million in medical costs.