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/ 23 December 2009
We bring you the A-Z of what was "hot" and "not" in the Noughties and predict what’s likely to thrive, survive or take a dive in the next 10 years.
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/ 23 December 2009
Having swept America and conquered Europe, social networking site Facebook is now spreading rapidly through Africa.
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/ 23 December 2009
The best music of the last decade has been a pretty diverse mix. Here are our favourite albums of the last ten years, with video.
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/ 22 December 2009
The most memorable quotes of the decade — you have to read it to believe it.
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/ 22 December 2009
Oil prices fell on Tuesday as Opec decided at a meeting against changing the cartel’s official crude output levels, in a widely expected move.
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/ 22 December 2009
Trapped civilians in Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Sudan cut off from aid deliberately, says Médecins sans Frontières.
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/ 21 December 2009
The SACCI has expressed concern over the potentially negative effect a 35% tariff increase Eskom has applied for will have on the SA economy.
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/ 21 December 2009
A 100-year-old Brazilian grandmother will experience gravity in a whole new way this Christmas when she takes the plunge out of an airplane.
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/ 21 December 2009
Malawi on Monday launched an emergency appeal for food and tents for victims of a strong weekend earthquake.
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/ 20 December 2009
The health of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the Libyan sentenced to life imprisonment for the Lockerbie bombing and repatriated, has deteriorated badly
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/ 20 December 2009
Oil companies from across the globa will gain lucrative oil fields in Iraq as the embattled country signs preliminary contracts.
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/ 20 December 2009
A year after the gesture that gained him adulation in the Arab world, the Iraqi reporter who threw his shoes at George Bush says fame left him poor.
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/ 19 December 2009
World airline passenger traffic fell 3.1% in 2009, the biggest drop in aviation industry history, fuelled by the global financial downturn.
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/ 18 December 2009
Israel on Friday condemned as a "declaration of war" the theft of the "Arbeit macht frei" sign from the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland.
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/ 18 December 2009
Twitter was briefly shut down overnight, its home page replaced with an image claiming the site had been hacked by the "Iranian Cyber Army".
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/ 18 December 2009
The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) audited financial statements reflect a loss of R910-million for the 2008/09 financial year.
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/ 18 December 2009
Mail & Guardian reviewers give the lowdown on the hottest albums to hit the shelves this festive season. Great for stocking fillers.
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/ 17 December 2009
Lotus boss Tony Fernandes and Richard Branson have agreed on a bet that the loser of their two F1 teams will dress up as a flight attendant.
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/ 17 December 2009
A teenage suicide bomber blew himself up at a gathering a northwestern Pakistani town on Thursday, but guests escaped unhurt, police said.
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/ 17 December 2009
More than half of 2009’s most-read articles on the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> concerned President Jacob Zuma.
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/ 17 December 2009
Citigroup has said it will defend itself against a claim filed by Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund seeking $4-billion over a 2007 share purchase deal
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/ 17 December 2009
A London court was set to decide on Thursday whether to grant an injunction blocking a strike by British Aiways cabin crew.
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/ 16 December 2009
De Beers would have preferred to have seen Zimbabwe temporarily suspended from the Kimberley Process, writes Nicky Oppenheimer.
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/ 16 December 2009
Ban Ki-moon suggested that a deal on climate change might not include a figure on financial aid for developing countries, a report said on Wednesday.
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/ 15 December 2009
The formal sector has lost about 330 000 jobs in the past 12 months, according to trade union Solidarity.
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/ 15 December 2009
Unitaid decided on Monday to create a "patent pool" to help facilitate the production of generic Aids medications for low- and middle-income countries
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/ 15 December 2009
Some books are lazy, languid affairs and some are page-turners — forcing you to finish them in one go. Our top 10 reads of the year.
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/ 14 December 2009
BA cabin crew have voted in favour of strike action in protest over pay and are set to walk out over the busy Christmas and New Year holiday season.
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/ 14 December 2009
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> is running a series of interviews with South African authors. Mandla Langa talks to us.
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/ 14 December 2009
Film critic Shaun de Waal lists his top ten best and worst films of 2009.
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/ 14 December 2009
Technology group Altech on Monday announced a black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction valued at R1,5-billion.