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Dubai: South Africa showed tremendous fighting spirit to beat England in a thrilling final and clinch their first ever Emirates Airline Dubai Rugby Sevens title since 2006 in front of a capacity crowd of 50,000, at the new venue “The Sevens.”
Fiji will play South Africa in one of the semi-finals of the Emirates Airline Dubai Sevens after they beat Samoa 12-7 in their quarterfinal match on Saturday.
”What is Thanksgiving and why is it celebrated?”
For thousands of years, mankind has set aside a day each year to celebrate bountiful annual harvests. Before the establishment of formal religions, many ancient farmers believed that their crops contained spirits which caused the crops to grow and die.
THE tattoo across the top of Aaron Groom’s back reads: “Noqu kalou noqu vanua.” It translates to: “My God my country.”
ASHTON Sims describes his recent trip to Fiji as eye-opening. The Brisbane forward, eligible for the Bati through his mother Jacky, was woken in the early hours of the morning by a cacophony of banging doors and screaming voices.
Not a day passes by when Petero Civoniceva doesn’t thank God his parents had the courage to leave family and friends to seek a better life for their children. The debt of gratitude he feels towards his mother, Tima, father, Petero (a Fijian rugby union Test representative) and to Australia has driven him to the highest sporting echelon in Australia.
Fiji Bati advanced into the semi-final of the 2008 Rugby League World Cup after defeating Ireland 30-14 in their sudden-death semi-final qualifier on the Gold Coast, Australia.
I was at home with my husband and two of my three children when we found out that Barack Obama was our next president. I cried, for the renewal of the American dream. I cried for my three adopted children, all children of colour. I cried for my Italian immigrant mother who was not here to see her dream fulfilled.
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