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/ 21 March 2007

‘His instrument was his voice’

Luther Ingram, the R&B and soul singer-songwriter best known for his hit If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don’t Want to Be Right) has died. He was 69. Ingram died on March 19 at a Belleville, Illinois, hospital after suffering for years from diabetes, kidney disease and partial blindness, his wife, Jacqui Ingram, said.

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/ 18 March 2007

World’s smallest horse faces tall order

At just a hair over 43cm tall, the miniature horse is more inclined to walk under fences than jump them — and her owners have sheltered the mare from ever gaining ”circus sideshow” or ”one-trick-pony” status. As the world’s smallest horse, five-year-old Thumbelina, weighing in at 26kg, has a bigger mission.

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/ 16 August 2006

Two heads are better than one

Aquarium officials in St Louis in the United States hope an exhibit that opens next week and runs until September 5 will earn a Guinness World Record for the most two-headed animals on display, according to a media report. So far, the World Aquarium at the City Museum has lined up 10 two-headed snakes and turtles.

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/ 9 October 2004

Kerry, Bush square off over taxes

In a heated debate rematch, Senator John Kerry accused United States President George Bush on Friday night of transforming huge budget surpluses into massive deficits with tax cuts for the rich during wartime. Bush said Kerry would have to raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for ,2-trillion in new spending programmes.

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/ 8 October 2004

Bush and Kerry to meet for second debate

President George W Bush and Senator John Kerry meet on Friday in a debate rematch as a new poll shows a shift toward the Democratic challenger. This time, Bush will be on the defensive going in, after a widely panned performance in last week’s debate, falling poll numbers, bad news out of Iraq and Friday’s release of the September jobs report.

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/ 17 June 2004

Legal feuding takes toll on ‘magnificent venture’

A Missouri maker of software that has enabled users to copy DVDs and computer games soon could fold under the mounting weight of lawsuits by deep-pocketed movie studios and others, the company’s chief said. Robert Moore said on Wednesday that he’ll decide within weeks whether his 321 Studios would seek federal bankruptcy protection.

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/ 6 January 2004

Bush renews US sanctions on Libya

US President George Bush on Monday renewed US sanctions imposed on Libya in 1986, saying that Tripoli must follow positive overtures on unconventional arms with ”concrete steps.” Sanctions — which include a freeze on Libyan assets in the United States — have been renewed annually since they were first imposed in 1986.