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BBC News - At the final whistle in the Stade de France, millions of Springbok fans across South Africa erupted into euphoric cheers. Parties in cities, towns and townships burst into song with the traditional Zulu Shosholoza, a spontaneous expression of ...

Washington Post - The economies of sub-Saharan Africa , home to some of the most extreme and pervasive poverty in the world, will grow at a healthy pace next year, International Monetary Fund economists said yesterday. The news came at the annual meetings of the IMF ...

International Herald Tribune - PARIS : South Africa throttled England to win the Rugby World Cup final, 15-6, at the Stade de France on Saturday night. South Africa, which also won at home in 1995, joined Australia as a two time champion. It was only the second final to end ...

News.com.au - THE England team, its fans in Paris and a nation back home believed Mark Cueto made a try in its Rugby World Cup final loss last night. "If you're an Englishman it definitely was a try," England veteran Lawrence Dallaglio said. "If you're a South ...

Bloomberg - We are asking for what we consider an appropriate price for the risks we write,'' Ludger Arnoldussen, management board member responsible for Germany, Asia-Pacific and Africa at Munich Re, said today at a reinsurers meeting in Baden-Baden, southern ...

Bloomberg - Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Tata Power Co., India's third-biggest utility by market value, is seeking coal mines in Australia and Africa to bolster its existing supply of fuel for generating electricity. ``The security of supply for the company's power ...

BBC News - Among 13 leaders under consideration by a panel are former Tanzania leader Benjamin Mkapa and Joaquim Chissano, who brought peace to Mozambique. The winner of the prize will have been selected by a panel chaired by former UN Secretary General Kofi ...

Daily Telegraph - In the rapidly changing battleground against international terrorism, the arid plains of the Horn of Africa are becoming a steadily more significant base from which al-Qa'eda's followers can launch their attacks. The Horn now ranks alongside the ...

Daily Telegraph - South Africa's sports minister, Makhenkesi Stofile, yesterday underlined that he will press ahead with controversial plans to impose a quota of black players on the Springboks' starting line-up. He said that Saturday's World Cup victory "should ...

Bloomberg - Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Bryan Habana was named the International Rugby Board's player of the year after his record- tying eight tries helped South Africa win its second World Cup. Habana, whose team defeated England 15-6 in the final two days ago ...