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/ 24 December 2008
Museum officials are quick to play down the impact of the financial problems.
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/ 23 December 2008
The Australian government said on Tuesday it would begin testing a pilot system next month to filter harmful information from the internet.
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/ 23 December 2008
There are about 6 000 child soldiers in Sudan’s war-torn region of Darfur where about two million children have been affected by conflict.
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/ 22 December 2008
Police in Finland believe they have caught a car-thief thanks to a DNA sample taken from a sample of his blood found inside a mosquito.
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/ 22 December 2008
Harmony Gold Mining on Monday said it has raised R979-million before costs by placing shares, adding it would use the proceeds to cut its debt levels.
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/ 22 December 2008
Barack Obama’s administration signalled on Sunday that it was preparing the biggest economic stimulus in US history to avert mass unemployment.
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/ 21 December 2008
Britain commemorates the 20th anniversary of the Lockerbie bombing on Sunday.
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/ 21 December 2008
President Robert Mugabe again dismissed demands that he step down on Saturday, saying he would not go to his "political death".
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/ 20 December 2008
An Australian navy frigate on Saturday rescued a French yachtsman badly injured in the remote Southern Ocean during a solo round-the-world race.
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/ 20 December 2008
An Australian navy frigate was racing against deteriorating weather conditions on Saturday to rescue a French yachtsman.
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/ 20 December 2008
Matthew Krouse looks at a spate of new titles about the city.
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/ 19 December 2008
The United States government agreed on Friday to an emergency loan of $13,4-billion to ailing car makers.
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/ 19 December 2008
President Robert Mugabe on Friday told his Zanu-PF party that "Zimbabwe is mine", adding he would never surrender.
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/ 19 December 2008
China is set this year to become the world’s largest physical market for gold, precious metals analyst GFMS said on Friday.
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/ 19 December 2008
For spinach-in-the-teeth and embarrassing smell moments, it is far better to be brutally honest.
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/ 19 December 2008
Diamond mining junior Petra Diamonds on Friday warned that the diamond mining industry faces difficult times in the year ahead.
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/ 19 December 2008
Your guide to the best and worst the big screen has to offer this holiday season.
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/ 19 December 2008
President-elect Barack Obama has blamed a lack of "adult supervision" for scandals such as Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50-billion fraud.
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/ 18 December 2008
Zapiro, South Africa’s most famous cartoonist, unleashed a storm of controversy in September this year.
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/ 18 December 2008
Retrenchments in the South African mining industry could be reduced by 40% to 60%, Solidarity deputy general secretary Dirk Hermann said on Thursday.
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/ 18 December 2008
A choir boy as a youth, Theoneste Bagosora rose to become a key officer in Rwanda’s military before being accused of masterminding the 1994 genocide.
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/ 18 December 2008
Low-cost airline Mango on Thursday warned South African travellers that fraudsters are offering airline bookings at discounts via SMS and email.
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/ 18 December 2008
The JSE was weaker by midday on Thursday as market participants consolidated recent gains ahead of the futures close out.
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/ 18 December 2008
Violence flared around the Gaza Strip on Thursday on the eve of an expiry of a truce but Israel stressed it would not rush into military operations.
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/ 18 December 2008
BHP Billiton’s chairperson, Don Argus, said on Thursday that as a standalone company BHP Billiton is in a strong financial and operating position.
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/ 18 December 2008
Vietnam is set to miss its target of attracting five million tourists this year as arrivals have dropped amid the global economic downturn.
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/ 17 December 2008
The JSE ignored weaker European markets and remained in positive territory by midday on Wednesday after having taken direction from Asian markets.
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/ 17 December 2008
Pakistan’s foreign minister expressed regret on Wednesday that the Mumbai attacks had halted the peace process with India.
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/ 17 December 2008
With the US economy slumping, the going has got very tough, but the tough are no longer shopping. They’re laughing.
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/ 17 December 2008
Despite a winning concept amid global climate concerns, Norwegian electric carmaker Think may see its dreams come to a screeching halt.
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/ 17 December 2008
A bogus aircraft engineer accused of putting thousands of Qantas passengers’ lives at risk was jailed for more than three years on Wednesday.
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/ 17 December 2008
Still can’t think what to get him for Christmas? Socks don’t seem to cut it any more? Fret no longer because Burger King is here to help.