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/ 16 November 2007
When Chris Martin was selected to play his first Test match for New Zealand, in
Bloemfontein in November 2000, one cricket writer suggested he ”had been plucked from the beach”. Once wavy-haired, with a reputation for roistering, Martin now has the shorn aspect of a Buddhist monk.
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/ 16 November 2007
Pakistan freed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto from house arrest early on Friday, hours after a caretaker prime minister was appointed in a first step towards a national election. Jail officials left the residence in the eastern city of Lahore where Bhutto has been held to prevent her from leading a pro-democracy rally.
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/ 16 November 2007
As the Hollywood writers’ strike winds through a second week, many American viewers are missing the political satire they’ve come to love on late-night talk shows, but otherwise appear unconcerned. The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Saturday Night Live are the main casualties of the strike that started on November 5.
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/ 16 November 2007
A super cyclone packing winds of 250km/h battered Bangladesh coasts overnight, killing over 200 people, local officials said on Friday. They said hundreds of people were injured and scores were missing, they said, but Cyclone Sidr was now losing strength and rain had mostly stopped.
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/ 16 November 2007
A cyclone killed more than 250 people in Bangladesh, triggering a 5m-high water surge that devastated three coastal towns with a combined population of 700Â 000, officials said on Friday. ”The death count is rising fast as we get more information from the affected districts,” an official at the Food and Disaster Ministry said.
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/ 16 November 2007
Hillary Clinton regained her frontrunner status in the Democratic race during a two-hour debate in Las Vegas on Friday marked by renewed personal squabbling. Clinton needed a good performance to make up the ground she lost in the last debate on October 30 when her main rivals, Barack Obama and John Edwards, ganged up on her.
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/ 16 November 2007
It was Sunday night in Jozi in the type of pub in which the ”No Smoking” signs seem to turn a deeper shade of mustard gas with each devious gentle expulsion of spent tobacco. The half-price pizza special was long over. Worse, the kitchen was closed. So the hungry worked on their thirst instead.
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/ 16 November 2007
Police investigating the beheading of a seven-year-old KwaZulu-Natal boy believe a witchdoctor syndicate could have been involved in the crime, KwaDabeka police said on Friday. Vuyani Ngqulunga went missing on November 1 and his body was found a day later in Clermont. His head and testicles were missing.
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/ 16 November 2007
A man wearing a ski mask used a stapler to hold up an eastern Kentucky ice cream store — and briefly got away with , authorities said. Gerald Rocchi (32) was arrested shortly after he flashed a chrome-plated stapler at an employee of the Ice Cream Shop in Ashland on Tuesday and demanded money, police said.
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/ 16 November 2007
Dozens of 2010 construction workers converged on Durban’s Moses Mabhida stadium on Friday to continue industrial action. Talks with their building contractor failed to result in a resolution on Thursday. Talks between the National Union of Mineworkers and the Group Five/WBHO consortium are expected to resume on Friday.