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/ 25 November 2007
A lack of rainfall will likely halve Senegal’s agricultural production for the 2007/08 season, with the country’s leading export peanut crop among those affected, its agricultural head said on Saturday. ”The [rainy season] generally has not delivered the results we hoped for,” he said.
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/ 25 November 2007
Seven people have been killed and tens of thousands evacuated their homes as Typhoon Mitag approaches the eastern Philippines, disaster relief agencies said on Sunday. The approach of Mitag was affected by a tropical storm, named Hagibis, which hit the country last week and which is now heading back.
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/ 25 November 2007
Hamas officials have issued stark warnings that the Israeli-Palestinian peace conference in Annapolis this week is likely to result in more violence rather than settlement, including a threat from the group to escalate its own ”resistance” to Israeli occupation.
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/ 25 November 2007
A Brazilian psychic who set officials in Indonesia scrambling after he predicted a huge quake would hit Sumatra island next month reaffirmed on Wednesday that the disaster is indeed coming. "The danger of this earthquake exists, there is no doubt," Jucelino Nobrega da Luz (45) said by telephone from his home in south-east Brazil.
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/ 25 November 2007
A veteran drummer kicked out of a well-known Australian rock band for allegedly playing "like a chimpanzee on speed" is suing his former bandmates for unfair dismissal, local media reported on Thursday. David Twohill (51) was dropped from Mental as Anything after 27 years.
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/ 25 November 2007
A British opera singer who sang Croatia’s national anthem before their crucial football victory over England blundered by accidentally singing about his manhood, British media reported on Friday. Tony Henry’s explicit rendition was delivered before about 90 000 fans at London’s Wembley Stadium.
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/ 25 November 2007
A miner was killed at the Driefontein mine near Carletonville on Saturday, Gold Fields said. ”It is regrettable that a loco guard was injured when he was caught between the locomotive and the loader in a haulage in level 44 in shaft five,” said Gold Fields spokesperson Andrew Davidson.
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/ 25 November 2007
The American troop surge in Iraq was effectively declared over on Saturday, when officials announced that 5 000 soldiers will this week begin pulling out in response to declining violence. A United States military spokesperson said the withdrawal of a brigade combat team comes after the fall in attacks across Iraq.
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/ 25 November 2007
Durban’s Absa Stadium — the home of the Super 14 Shark franchise — could become a tennis stadium or part of a ”high-performance centre”, it was announced on Saturday. The head of strategic projects at the eThekwini municipality said the plan is for the 2010 Moses Mabhida Stadium to host rugby, soccer and athletics.
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/ 25 November 2007
The Pretoria offices of the daily Afrikaans newspaper Beeld were robbed of more than 30 computers and four cars, Pretoria police said on Saturday. ”I can confirm that a group of armed men stole about 38 computers, four cars, a camera and a cellphone during the robbery in Hatfield on Friday night,” said Captain Lucas Sithole.