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/ 18 January 2007
South African steel producer, Mittal Steel South Africa, says its R578-million relining of the Vanderbijlpark Blast Furnace D to increase capacity at the plant is scheduled to start in February 2007. This forms part of the company’s R8-billion capital expenditure programme to increase its production of liquid steel.
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/ 18 January 2007
The JSE was in positive territory in noon trade on Thursday buoyed by a bounce in commodity prices. Dealers said that the bourse would have been even stronger were it not for the firmer rand. By 11.52am, the all share index added 0,86%. Resources rallied 1,45%, the gold mining index jumped 1,68% and the platinum mining index picked up 0,98%.
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/ 18 January 2007
At least 10 people were killed and 25 wounded in a series of car bombings in Baghdad on Thursday, the third day in a surge in insurgent violence in the Iraqi capital. Three bombs in quick succession killed at least six people and wounded 15 in a wholesale vegetable market in the violent southern district of Dora, police said.
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/ 18 January 2007
Poor form has ended sporting careers or at least forced a relegation to the bench. In Sachin Tendulkar’s case, it has led to a promotion. Tendulkar (33) will be vice-captain to skipper Rahul Dravid for the one-day series against the West Indies amid speculation that he may even be named Indian captain after the World Cup.
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/ 18 January 2007
Australian Robert Allenby fired a nine-under 63 here on Wednesday to seize a two-shot first round lead in the -million, five round Bob Hope Chrysler Classic. Allenby, who began on the back nine at La Quinta Country Club, carded a 32 on his first nine holes that included a pair of putts of more than 20 feet.
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/ 18 January 2007
”Four years ago, I was fab, fit and in my 40s with a dynamic marketing and media business, exciting social life and active sporting schedule. My lifestyle was exciting and affluent.” But devastating symptoms forced Sarah Dacre, now 50, to transform her life.
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/ 18 January 2007
A 34-year-old truck driver was fined on Wednesday for illegally dumping rotten chickens at a railway train station near Tembisa, Ekurhuleni metro police said. Inspector Mveli Nhlapo said the man received a fine of R1 500 and his truck was impounded.
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/ 18 January 2007
It’s the out-of-alpha-into-beta form of the Venice Project. Still bemused? The Venice Project was a cool codename for an online television system, and in reality came from a hotel conference room: not one Cornetto required. Now it’s called <a href="http://www.joost.com" target="_blank" class="standardtext">Joost</a> which, if it’s Dutch, should start with a Y sound and rhyme with host, or toast.
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/ 18 January 2007
A senior commander of Colombia’s right-wing militias has admitted taking part in some of the country’s most grisly crimes in the first of what could become a flood of confessions from demobilised paramilitary leaders. Salvatore Mancuso told a prosecutor in MedellÃn this week that he was responsible for hundreds of kidnappings, murders and massacres.
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/ 18 January 2007
Militants in Nigeria released five Chinese hostages and one of three Italian oil-workers seized in separate attacks in the country’s oil-rich southern delta region, officials and militants said on Thursday. Nigerian militants have frequently taken foreign workers hostage since launching a wave of attacks on the country’s oil industry since early 2006.