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In the Swiss-based World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness survey, South Africa comes top in sub-Saharan Africa and 50th out of 142 in the world.
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Swiping from side to side lets you transition between verticals -- it becomes long-winded quickly, unfortunately -- while swiping down from the top edge gives you even more sub-sections to choose from, like photos and video.
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He suggested the sub may have been spying on a top secret consignment of military grade plutonium, shipped from the French port of Cherbourg to Japan on board a British nuclear transport vessel.
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We now add climate change on top of this, and we know that in Sub-Saharan Africa, or in the Indian subcontinent, the projections are that climate change will have such an impact on the volume of food and the quality of that food, that there'll be 50% decline in those areas in agriculture.
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Mauritius, which ranked eighth, was the first sub-Saharan African country to enter the top 10, Mr Feulner said.
BBC: Hong Kong retains top spot of world's freest economy
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The Witch Is Dead has become the first sub-60 second single to ever make the top 10.
BBC: Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead enters chart at two
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Though no top-tier record company has supported the MP3 format, Sub Pop joins a growing list of independent record labels offering MP3 versions of their artists' recordings.
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This sort of time - representing sub-seven minute miles - puts Ryan in the top tier of club runners.
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But Oshkosh made the same kind of mistake that many other well-run companies made at the height of the sub-prime housing boom, buying deep into the construction equipment sector at the top of the market and then suffering a staggering collapse in demand that impaired its capacity to meet debt obligations.
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Neither Belmoktar nor Abou Zeid sat at the top of AQIM's hierarchy in North Africa but they became the two most powerful al Qaeda figures in the sub-Sahara.
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