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/ 28 January 2008

A society in pieces

If you bottle up 1,5-million people in a territory 40km long and 10km wide, and turn off the lights, as Israel has done in Gaza, the bottle will burst. This is what happened on Wednesday when tens of thousands of Gazans poured into Egypt to buy food, fuel and supplies after militants destroyed two-thirds of the wall separating the Gaza Strip from Egypt.

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/ 8 January 2008

Man flushed down toilet in pieces by wife

A woman in Germany put an end to her troubled marriage by chopping up her husband and flushing parts of him down the toilet, authorities said on Tuesday. ”’You won’t find him, I’ve flushed him down the toilet,’ is what she told [her children],” said Andre Hartwich, a spokesperson for police in the western city of Düsseldorf.

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/ 13 June 2007

Bush loses track of timepiece

”Criminals do not deliberately target US citizens or other foreigners, but seek targets of opportunity and select those who appear to have anything of value. Pickpocketing is widespread.” The United States state department’s advice for travellers to Albania is presumably not intended for the leader of the free world being escorted by a phalanx of bodyguards.

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/ 28 May 2007

SABC wants piece of pay-TV pie

On Monday, the first of 12 days of hearings into who should be granted a pay-TV licence, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) submitted that successful applicants for the country’s new cable licence should carry the SABC’s own channels and pay the state broadcaster for its intellectual property.

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/ 28 May 2007

A piece of plastic called home

Activists in the Ekurhuleni municipality are claiming that informal settlements on the mining belt are being unlawfully demolished as a "clean-up" operation for the 2010 World Cup Soccer event and in order to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) of eradicating urban slums by 2015.