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Signpost: Even a covert cloud has a silver lining
Governments and intelligence agencies are not the only entities engaged in covert activity as the tools of communication and data exchange evolve. Ordinary individuals, working in large corporations, are engaging in a spot of covert activity themselves.
- C-section scar begone: new technique may reduce scarring
- Britney Spears to release new album this year
- ANC wishes Mbeki a happy birthday
- Violent crime damages SA's economy: Government
- Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne living together again
- Channing Tatum to produce TV sitcom
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Potential job cuts loom at Telkom: report
Potential job cuts and the disposal of money-losing assets is looming at Telkom.
- Grandson takes up Mandela's challenge to serve
- Man shoots traditional surgeon at initiation school dead
- ANC on a downward spiral: Malema
- SA smart about shopping
- 'Cash-strapped' ex-Fidentia boss still living in lap of luxury
- Overtime ban blamed for patient deaths
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US programme marks birth of one millionth HIV-free baby
This month somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa the one millionth baby will be born without HIV to a mother who suffers from the disease, thanks in large part to a decade-old US aid programme.
- Nigeria attack on school, military kills 11
- Gambia arrests two axed government ministers
- UN denounces Mali, Syria use of child soldiers
- Soweto's child parliamentarians have a ball in Paris
- SA troops off to DRC
- Mali detains 21 for planning march against rebel talks
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THE BIG READ: No stopping Big Brother
Speaking furtively from below a red hood in his Hong Kong hotel room last week, Edward Snowden described his worst nightmare. The 29-year-old whistleblower, who is likely to spend the rest of his life behind bars, fighting extradition, or on the run for leaking...
- Jet orders take off in Paris
- G8 urges EU banking union
- UK eavesdropping revelations damage diplomatic relations
- Ahmadinejad in court
- I never stole ring, says Vlad
- 'Gender wars' cost Gillard
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Politics
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ANC wishes Mbeki a happy birthday
The African National Congress wished former president Thabo Mbeki a happy 71st birthday on Tuesday.
- Violent crime damages SA's economy: Government
- ANC apologises for accusing dead comrade of being a traitor
- 'Angie' joins the march
- SA must solve youth problems in honour of 1976 youth: Mapisa-Nqakula
- Zuma has not earned respect: Mazibuko
- 1913 land act legacy still with us: Zille
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Sport
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Rose win inspires English golfers
Justin Rose’s breakthrough win at the US Open could open the door for England’s golden generation of golfers to finally make their collective mark in the record books.
- Tahiti thumped 6-1 by Nigeria but deliver a goal
- No Joyi for fans as underdog Budler produces upset
- Bafana Bafana's next World Cup? 2026
- Pitch made for turning
- 'Warner let Australia down'
- Fergie's first team sheet under the hammer
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Business
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SA private equity funds ‘should also be given tax relief’
Wesgro CEO Nils Flatten says the restriction of tax relief to listed instruments has driven foreign private equity fund managers to locate to Mauritius
- Government now sees importance of facing mining constraints
- ‘Chicken wars’ set to produce only losers
- Lobbying Springmaster MD earns high-level meeting
- How a small factory in Port Elizabeth conquered the world
- ‘Significant doubt’ over Fastjet’s future
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Entertainment
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Britney Spears to release new album this year
Britney Spears is set to release her new album this year and has revealed she has taken a leap in a different direction and thinks her fans will be "surprised" by her new material.
- Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne living together again
- Channing Tatum to produce TV sitcom
- Xbox none for South Africa
- 'Beautiful' baby girl for Kim
- 'I was only choking'
- Move over media moguls
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Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne living together again
Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne's marriage is back on track after the 'Talk' host moved back in to their Los Angeles home.
- 'Beautiful' baby girl for Kim
- 'I was only choking'
- Move over media moguls
- UK police looking into Nigella Lawson throat-grab pictures
- Paris Jackson upset she, Prince have different fathers
- Beyoncé Knowles settles $100 million lawsuit
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Britney Spears to release new album this year
Britney Spears is set to release her new album this year and has revealed she has taken a leap in a different direction and thinks her fans will be "surprised" by her new material.
- Adele honoured by Queen Elizabeth II
- New Kanye West album leaks, creating online buzz
- 'Happy Birthday' copyright challenged
- Sting honours Billy Joel, Elton John at Songwriters Hall of Fame
- Finley Quaye added to Oppikoppi 2013 lineup
- Dave Matthews Band heading to South Africa
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Win 20 double tickets to watch 'THE KINGS OF CHAOS'
Sunday Times is giving twenty lucky readers plus their partners the chance to attend the 'reincarnated' star studded 'Kings Of Chaos' concert happening at Sun City and at the Grand West in Cape Town.
- Stand a chance to win a full set of Dan Brown books including a signed Inferno copy
- Winner: Two Bon Jovi Johannesburg tickets up for grabs
- Win tickets to the Winter Sculpture Fair
- WIN a business coaching franchise
- Enter to win 1 of 5 Danny Boyle DVD hampers
- Save & win: BBC Africa & AHA Resorts
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Life & Style
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C-section scar begone: new technique may reduce scarring
A new plasma device developed by an Israeli firm can weld wounds from Cesarean sections with minimal scarring, according to reports.
- US programme marks birth of one millionth HIV-free baby
- PILLOWTALK: Karen Jayes
- Swimming upstream
- QUICK REVIEW: "What Hidden Lies"
- Q&A: Publisher Benoit Knox
- Greek pasta salad
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US programme marks birth of one millionth HIV-free baby
This month somewhere in sub-Saharan Africa the one millionth baby will be born without HIV to a mother who suffers from the disease, thanks in large part to a decade-old US aid programme.
- Only five percent of us wash our hands properly: study
- 'Intersex' included on Australia's new gender guidelines
- SA's first face of Revlon
- To cut diabetes risk, walk after every meal: study
- World Cup's countdown clock unveiled in Rio
- The shape of things to come
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Italy chefs roast junior minister who snubbed national cuisine
Top Italian chefs are clamouring for the resignation of a junior minister who dismissed the country’s cuisine as a poor copy of trendy French cooking, poking a sore spot in a long-held kitchen rivalry between the two nations.
- Chocolate pomegranate slab with pistachio nuts
- Soup lady - liquid assets at the Jozi Food Market
- RUDI'S 'I' is for Irish Stew
- RUDI'S gelatine fruit delights
- Rudi's Alphabet: N is for Niçoise
- RUDI'S Delicious Doughnuts
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Travel
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Airbus next-generation plane prepares for first flight
Airbus’s new A350 plane is due to take off on its much-anticipated maiden flight Friday, a milestone for an aircraft the firm hopes will help close the gap with rival Boeing in the lucrative long-haul market.
- Luxury Middle Eastern hotel opens women-only floor
- Aviation industry draws up resolutions to protect passengers
- How the richest households in the US like to travel
- Cruising USA: Southern Belle
- Agent's Alert!: Victoria Falls
- Flyers name their favourite airlines
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Motoring
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Arming us for the mean streets
Growing up, I would be driving with either my father or perhaps one of my uncles and as soon as someone was seen driving badly the first thing they would say was, "that must be a woman driver or, that man drives like a woman".
- Leaf takes root with 10000th sale
- Hitting the right notes
- Where the cars are hotter than the stars
- Popular Etios given a more quality feel
- More monsieur than meneer
- Golden age of iconic 911
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Sci-Tech
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Signpost: Even a covert cloud has a silver lining
Governments and intelligence agencies are not the only entities engaged in covert activity as the tools of communication and data exchange evolve. Ordinary individuals, working in large corporations, are engaging in a spot of covert activity themselves.
- Japanese experts set to debate human organs grown in animals
- Xbox none for South Africa
- Airborn laser reveals ancient Cambodian city
- SA smart about shopping
- Speed, and brakes, make the cheetah a champion
- China seen facing uphill struggle against pollution
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Opinion
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THE BIG READ: No stopping Big Brother
Speaking furtively from below a red hood in his Hong Kong hotel room last week, Edward Snowden described his worst nightmare. The 29-year-old whistleblower, who is likely to spend the rest of his life behind bars, fighting extradition, or on the run for leaking...
- Icelander and Stuffness
- A little less calm, a little more panic
- Bafana Bafana's next World Cup? 2026
- UK eavesdropping revelations damage diplomatic relations
- 'Homie' Shea Shea can wear the top hat
- Look beyond politics for a city name that will unite all of us
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Icelander and Stuffness
Short, sharp guidance and observations from a journalist with attitude. All books available from Exclusives
- A little less calm, a little more panic
- Bafana Bafana's next World Cup? 2026
- 'Homie' Shea Shea can wear the top hat
- Soiling our discourse
- Sweet tastes of heaven and a book to devour
- Tsotsobe: our secret weapon
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UK eavesdropping revelations damage diplomatic relations
The Times Editorial: Governments tend to monitor each other's affairs but revelations that Britain spied on key allies - including South Africa and Turkey - at two G20 summits in London in 2009 have been met with disbelief in diplomatic circles.
- Look beyond politics for a city name that will unite all of us
- Zuma holds the ace to get Mugabe to play the game
- Benefits of ban on liquor advertising dubious at best
- Honour Madiba by making our new democracy work
- We cannot but feel a little hysterical about Madiba
- Children tell it like it is about our unequal democracy
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THE BIG READ: No stopping Big Brother
Speaking furtively from below a red hood in his Hong Kong hotel room last week, Edward Snowden described his worst nightmare. The 29-year-old whistleblower, who is likely to spend the rest of his life behind bars, fighting extradition, or on the run for leaking...
- THE BIG READ: Masina can make or break ANC poll drive
- THE BIG READ: Russia without love
- THE BIG READ: We owned Pistorius
- THE BIG READ: African peace force still a paper dragon
- THE BIG READ: The not so shiny story
- THE BIG READ: Obama's woes not a ripple on Watergate
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