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Japanese town offers ¥200 000 reward to arrest monkey business  Comment
2010-09-09 04:00:01
A Japanese town is offering a ¥200 000 (R17 300) reward for the capture of a monkey that has broken into houses and attacked 43 people in the past month.
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Cockroach brains may yield antibiotics to kill drug-resistant bacteria  Comment
2010-09-08 04:00:01
Cockroach brains may be a source of new antibiotics capable of killing deadly drug-resistant bacteria, according to research that suggests the germ-spreading pests may be good for something after all.
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Malaria's cherry pick  Comment
2010-09-07 04:00:01
Novartis plans to test a cherry- flavoured version of its malaria drug Coartem in Africa after children preferred it to strawberry and orange varieties in a study.
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U2, top Turk give gifts  Comment
2010-09-07 04:00:01
U2's Bono gave Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan a red iPod and walked from Asia to Europe across Istanbul's Bosporus bridge before a concert in the city last night, Haberturk reported.
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Speeding out the red  Comment
2010-09-07 04:00:01
One Nevada gubernatorial hopeful sees a speedy fix to Nevada's budget crisis.
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Corot's $1.4m Portrait of a Girl goes missing between bar and home  Comment
2010-09-03 04:00:01
A guy walks into a bar with a $1.4 million (R10.1m) Corot under his arm. Stop us if you've heard this one.
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Long live the Dutch  Comment
2010-09-02 04:00:01
The Dutch are set to live longer, - good news for them but bad news for insurers, which are expected to suffer from higher capital requirements and tighter profit margins.
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Kenyan SMS 'causes fear, not haemorrhages'  Comment
2010-09-02 04:00:01
Kenya's telecommunications regulator yesterday told cellphone users to ignore rumours that receiving calls from some numbers can cause brain haemorrhage.
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Late workers barred  Comment
2010-09-01 04:00:01
SNOOZING Nigerian federal employees who reported late to work had a rude awakening yesterday.
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Shampoo insures football star's shaggy mane  Comment
2010-09-01 04:00:01
American football star Troy Polamalu has a price on his head - with an anti-dandruff shampoo brand taking out a $1 million (R7.31m) insurance policy on his trademark mane of black ringlets.
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BA frightens fliers  Comment
2010-08-31 06:00:01
British Airways (BA) apologised to passengers after an emergency message warning that they were about to crash into the sea was played by mistake.
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Polly Peck's Nadir returns to UK to face the music - and haunt Tories  Comment
2010-08-27 04:00:01
A TYCOON who fled Britain almost two decades ago following the spectacular collapse of his Polly Peck business empire would return to London to face charges of fraud, officials said yesterday.
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WWII's golden smile  Comment
2010-08-26 04:00:01
A partial set of British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill's gold-mounted dentures has fetched £15 200 (R173 000) at auction, more than three times the estimated price.
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Shooter on New Year  Comment
2010-08-26 04:00:01
A Polish man living in Germany went about his business for about five years without noticing he had been shot in the head.
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US dogs inflict pain on insurance firms  Comment
2010-08-20 04:00:01
Dog bites cost US home insurers 6.4 percent more last year than in the prior 12 months, with the average claim exceeding $24 000 (R174 500) for the third consecutive year, an industry group said on Wednesday.
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Asia's wealthy turn to top-growth French wines as a safe investment  Comment
2010-08-19 04:00:01
Like gold, top wines are highly prized, represent wealth and are selling near their historical highs.
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So long for all the fish  Comment
2010-08-18 04:00:01
US CHEFS breathed a sigh of relief after BP stopped its massive oil leak in the seafood-rich Gulf of Mexico a month ago, but they must still deal with tight supply.
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Sudan cities go wild  Comment
2010-08-18 04:00:01
Southern Sudan was in talks with two companies about a $10.1 billion (R73bn) project to redesign the region's cities into animal-shaped urban centres, the housing ministry said yesterday.
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WWII still disruptive  Comment
2010-08-18 04:00:01
Milan's Linate airport will close today and trains linking the city with Venice will be suspended as police detonate a bomb from World War II found near the airport, the second this month.
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Green vehicles to go the distance  Comment
2010-08-17 04:00:01
Vehicles powered by electricity from renewable energy have begun a race in Switzerland that will run for more than 80 days and cover 30 000km.
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