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/ 11 November 2007
For four decades, residents of the tiny Pennsylvania town of Kecksburg have told their story of strange blue lights in the sky one winter’s evening and a fireball crashing into woods. In 1965, they say, they saw armed soldiers cordoning off the area and a large, metallic, acorn-shaped object driven off at speed on the back of a lorry.
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/ 11 November 2007
He is a former governor of Arkansas from a town called Hope. He has a nice line in campaign humour and speaks like a Deep South preacher. He is also running for president. But this is not Bill Clinton of 1992. This is Mike Huckabee, a long-shot Republican contender for the 2008 White House who has burst into the leading pack of the race.
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/ 11 November 2007
A dizzying controversy will grip the French capital this week as its mayor tries to convince recalcitrant Parisians of the beauty of high-rise buildings. Two years after riots swept through the tower blocks of the Paris suburbs, mayor Bertrand Delanoe will unveil artists’ impressions of skyscrapers planned for three areas within the capital’s ringroad.
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/ 11 November 2007
Forty years after Robben Island detainees formed the Makana Football Association inside the island fortress, the club was officially recognised by Fifa, the sport’s international governing body. Now the little-known story of how prisoners set up their own league under the noses of the warders is to be told in a feature film.
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/ 11 November 2007
With one day left in their SuperSport Series match at Buffalo Park in East London against the Warriors, the Dolphins were poised for the kill at the close of play on Saturday. The sun in Paarl shone slightly more on the Cape Cobras than on the visiting Lions, and in Benoni, the Titans and the Diamond Eagles appeared to be heading for a draw.
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/ 11 November 2007
New Zealand strike-bowler Shane Bond is to return home after sustaining an abdominal strain during the first Castle Lager Test against South Africa at the Wanderers on Saturday. New Zealand manager Lindsay Crocker said Bond’s injury will keep him out of cricket for four to six weeks.
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/ 11 November 2007
A trial opening in Baghdad on Sunday will shed new light on a secret Pentagon programme in which United States snipers allegedly planted fake weapons as ”bait” to lure their Iraqi enemies to their deaths. Sergeant Evan Vela is accused of murdering an unarmed Iraqi man and an attempted cover-up.
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/ 11 November 2007
Shortly after midday on November 10, the news hit the wires: Norman Mailer, the fearless alpha male among American men of letters, had died of renal failure early in the morning at the age of 84. Now would come the final calling to account; not just for the literary legacy of a man who believed that ”a really great novel does not have something to say”.
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/ 11 November 2007
Zambia has temporarily withdrawn the passport of opposition leader Michael Sata, an arch-critic of Lusaka’s key ally Beijing who has been lobbying against the Chinese juggernaut in Africa, a minister said on Saturday. He told reporters that Sata’s passport was withdrawn with immediate effect to allow a probe.
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/ 11 November 2007
City of Cape Town officials have tracked dangerously high levels of E coli bacteria and other serious pollutants in the city’s Black River, said a citizen action group called What on Earth Is Happening on Saturday. Group coordinator Leila Beltramo said the pollution poses a significant health hazard to residential areas.