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/ 12 November 2007
Justin Henin finished the toughest season of her career with one of her toughest victories at the WTA tennis championship. That’s exactly how she would have scripted it. Henin rallied to beat Maria Sharapova 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 on Sunday in the longest three-set final in the tournament’s history.
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/ 12 November 2007
Dozens of construction workers converged on Durban’s Moses Mabhida 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium on Monday to continue their labour protest over wage disputes. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said it was awaiting a date from the Labour Court so that the dispute could be taken to a new level.
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/ 12 November 2007
A policeman accidentally shot dead a soccer fan on Sunday during a confrontation between supporters of rival clubs in Italy, police said. The shooting took place after Lazio and Juventus supporters clashed at a motorway restaurant near the Tuscan city of Arezzo.
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/ 12 November 2007
Somali and Ethiopian troops shut down Mogadishu’s main market in a search for Islamist insurgents on Sunday after fighting that has killed at least 60 people and driven tens of thousands from the Somali capital. Rights groups have criticised the Ethiopians for failing to distinguish between civilian and insurgent targets.
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/ 12 November 2007
Egyptian prosecutors have charged two detectives with sodomising a suspect in a drugs case in the Nile Delta. A report on the case quotes the suspect, 27-year-old Ahmed Sayed Hussein, as saying the detectives in Kalyoubia province tied him up with ropes, thrashed him with a belt and sodomised him with their hands.
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/ 12 November 2007
For Senegalese street sellers from Manhattan to the Vatican, selling fake Prada purses and Gucci sunglasses is as much a question of religious devotion as of making a quick buck. Many traders are members of the Mouride brotherhood, which has become Senegal’s most influential religious and economic force.
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/ 12 November 2007
China’s muzzled press and burgeoning internet have given citizen reporters an audience and an opportunity to spread news quicker than censors can control it. But the ability of bloggers to dodge censors and provide a voice for China’s poor and disadvantaged by covering news events Beijing would rather be left unreported.
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/ 12 November 2007
Three people have been arrested after a seven-year KwaZulu-Natal boy was beheaded for R20Â 000 in what is believed to be a muti transaction, KwaDabeka police said on Monday. Police spokesperson Captain Bongani Khomo said the incident has left police officers and the Clermont community in shock.
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/ 12 November 2007
South African furniture retailer Lewis said on Monday first-half revenue rose 11,2% to R1,718-billion, with merchandise sales 7,5% higher. Lewis said headline earnings per share for the period to end-September rose 11% to 308,5 cents. Lewis said operational and merchandise strategies would continue to produce satisfactory results.
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/ 12 November 2007
South Africa’s biggest mass-market lender, Abil, increased headline earnings per share for the year to end-September by 20%, and said on Monday it was confident of reaching its financial goals in the current financial year. African Bank Investments Limited said headline EPS was 268,4 cents while headline earnings rose 20% to R1,334-billion.