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/ 29 October 2004
A former British army captain who claims to have worked with Winston Churchill on secret wartime operations has been found guilty of reworking a painting by another former employer, the Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. John Peter Moore, a former private secretary to the artist, cut up a stolen 1969 Dalí painting, The Double Image of Gala, and used it to create what he claimed was a new Dalí.
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/ 23 October 2004
Almost two decades of detective work, triggered by a Latin poem found in the Vatican archives, has led experts to conclude that a statue that had stood unnoticed for five centuries in a small southern Italian town is the work of a Renaissance master.
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/ 21 October 2004
President Fidel Castro, Cuba’s leader for more than 45 years, broke his left knee and his right arm in a fall, and urged the Caribbean country’s population of 11-million to stay calm, a government statement said on Thursday. TV cameras captured the incident on Wednesday when the leader stumbled as he was descending a flight of stairs.
The horror and trauma of being in Pollsmoor Prison, awaiting trial, has left him feeling like a ”piece of human garbage”, convicted paedophile Wiliam John Creasey told the Wynberg Regional Court on Tuesday. After his tearful outbursts on Monday brought his trial to a halt, he assured defence attorney Van Zyl Loots that he was sufficiently recomposed to proceed with his testimony in mitigation of sentence.
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/ 23 September 2004
With handpumps, latrines and the unimaginable luxury of electricity, the inhabitants of Cestos City in eastern Liberia are slowly rebuilding their ruined town under the shadow of epidemic illness. ”The war has destroyed everything we had,” said Emmet Kay, looking around him at the barren landscape that used to be a large village.
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/ 8 September 2004
Hollywood stunt pilots hired by Nasa to catch a capsule carrying samples of the sun were gearing up for a blockbuster ending to their mission on Wednesday over Utah in the western United States. When the Genesis spacecraft re-enters Earth’s atmosphere on Wednesday, the helicopter pilots are to intercept a capsule from the vessel in midair.
It is crucial to view current peace initiatives in the Sudan through the prism of its post-colonial history, which has been that of multiple and simultaneous political struggles and civil wars. The murder and mayhem in Darfur reveals many of the limitations of the agreement between the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army and the government of Lieutenant General Umar al-Bashir.
"Mark Haddon’s acclaimed novel is an extraordinary piece of work. It shows great insight into the human condition." Barbara Ludman reviews <i>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time</i>.
The results of the 2004 election look as if they are a pretty exact reflection of the will of South Africans.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>Ten years ago, voters and political parties were willing to turn a blind eye on the amateurish shambles the transitional Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) made of the technology it tried to use to gather and tally votes. The permanent IEC administering today’s election won’t enjoy the same forbearance if its systems fail.