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/ 11 December 2007
An Israeli judge has ordered the country’s prison authority to pay an inmate over 000 in compensation after he complained of having to share a cell with cockroaches. Mordechai Yehudai filed a lawsuit complaining of poor hygiene, a lack of fresh air, broken windows and inmates who smoke in a handful of cells, a spokesperson for the Israel Prisons Service said.
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/ 11 December 2007
Darfur rebels said they attacked a Chinese-run oil field in Sudan on Tuesday and vowed to launch more assaults on other installations. No one from Sudan’s armed forces or the Ministry of Energy was immediately available for comment on rebel claims of an attack on the field in Sudan’s Kordofan region.
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/ 11 December 2007
South Africa bowler Nicky Boje on Tuesday denied charges of match-fixing under questioning by Indian police probing the scandal that hit cricket seven years ago, officials said. The 34-year-old, who was escorted to a New Delhi interrogation centre by South African diplomats, was grilled for nearly two hours by Crime Branch detectives.
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/ 11 December 2007
Candles and cold dinners will be the order of the day again on Tuesday as Eskom warned of further load shedding countrywide. ”Unfortunately there is load shedding today [Tuesday] again,” said spokesperson Andrew Etzinger, waiting for the power cut in his office in Sunninghill to roll over to another area while working on his laptop.
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/ 11 December 2007
The man caught up in the national hoax email saga, Muziwendoda Kunene, briefly appeared in the Bethlehem Magistrate’s Court in the Free State on Tuesday. A court official said Kunene’s case was postponed and transferred to the Kestell Magistrate’s Court, where he was expected to appear on Wednesday.
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/ 11 December 2007
Two bombs exploded in the Algerian capital, Algiers, on Tuesday, killing 20 people and wounding 43, a security source said. One blast killed 15 people near the Constitutional Court building and the other killed five close to the United Nations offices and a police station in the upscale Hydra district, the source said.
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/ 11 December 2007
South Africa’s current account plunged further into deficit in the third quarter of 2007 as both oil-import costs and payments to foreign investors surged, but household spending eased due to higher interest rates. The central bank said in its latest quarterly bulletin the shortfall on the current account swelled to a record R162,6-billion, or 8,1% of gross domestic product.
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/ 11 December 2007
A majority of New Zealanders support the reappointment of Graham Henry as All Blacks coach, although he recently led the team their worst performance in Rugby World Cup history, a survey shows. The survey, conducted by URM research and released on Tuesday, shows 61% of New Zealand approved of the decision last week to reappoint Henry for a two-year term.
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/ 11 December 2007
The West Indies do not have a good record in South Africa, but captain Chris Gayle believes they should be able to turn things around on their coming tour of this country. Speaking just after the team’s arrival from Zimbabwe on Monday, Gayle said he thought there was an excellent spirit within the West Indies team.
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/ 11 December 2007
Indian police on Tuesday began questioning South African cricketer Nicky Boje about a major match-fixing scandal in 2000, police Crime Branch officers said. The 34-year-old was escorted in a private vehicle by South African diplomats to a New Delhi interrogation centre where detectives began the questioning, they said.