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/ 1 April 2008

Open the internet during Games, Beijing told

The internet must be open during the Beijing Olympics. That was the message a top-ranking International Olympic Committee (IOC) official delivered on Tuesday to Beijing organisers during the last official sessions between IOC inspectors and the host Chinese before the Games begin in just more than four months.

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/ 18 February 2008

Cheers as Toshiba nears HD DVD surrender

Investors cheered an impending end to a format war for next-generation DVDs on Monday, pushing up shares of both Toshiba, on the verge of abandoning its HD DVD discs, and Sony, the leader of the rival Blu-ray camp. Toshiba shares jumped 5,1% as analysts praised its decision to cut its losses.

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/ 23 December 2007

Bill’s magic touch bolsters Hillary’s bid

Bill Clinton has never been one to avoid the limelight. Or stay on message. Last week, as he spearheaded a mission to rejuvenate his wife’s troubled presidential campaign, he showed that old habits die hard. In a publicity stunt at a grocery store in the vital first battleground state of Iowa, the ex-president caused brief chaos by breaking away to chat to the public.

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/ 18 October 2007

Bush urges China to meet with the Dalai Lama

President George Bush gave the Dalai Lama one of the highest United States honours on Wednesday and called on China to open talks with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader whom Beijing reviles as a separatist. The Dalai Lama, accepting the Congressional Gold Medal from Bush and leaders of Congress, told a packed audience in the US Capitol that he had ”no hidden agenda”.

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/ 26 February 2007

The Departed blows away Oscars competition

Crime drama The Departed blew away its rivals at the Oscars on Sunday, scooping best-picture honours and delivering a long-overdue director’s prize for Martin Scorsese. Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola presented the 64-year-old with his Oscar which finally came at the sixth attempt.

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/ 9 February 2007

Model, billionaire’s widow Anna Nicole Smith dies

Anna Nicole Smith, the small-town Texas girl turned Playboy Playmate who fought all the way to the United States Supreme Court over her billionaire husband’s estate, died suddenly on Thursday at the age of 39. Smith, a voluptuous platinum blonde who grew up idolising the late screen legend Marilyn Monroe, was pronounced dead at a Hollywood, Florida, hospital.

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/ 28 February 2005

The transformation of Jamie Foxx

Former stand-up comic Jamie Foxx, who won the best actor Oscar on Sunday for his sizzling role in Ray, plunged into the dark world of blind soul legend Ray Charles and emerged as a Hollywood heavyweight. An emotional Foxx was greeted by a standing ovation on receiving his award, as he sang a few notes in homage to Charles.

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/ 23 November 2004

‘Holy’ sandwich sells for unholy profit

A woman who said her 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich bore the image of the Virgin Mary will be getting a lot more bread after the item sold for  000 (R168 ,468 ) on eBay. GoldenPalace.com, an online casino, confirmed that it placed the winning bid, and company executives said they were willing to spend ”as much as it took” to own the 10-year-old half-sandwich with a bite out of it.

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