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/ 26 September 2007
The Premier Soccer League’s chaotically-arranged first round of the Telkom Knockout competition will be launched on Wednesday night when Mamelodi Sundowns will attempt to repair their dented image against Golden Arrows at Loftus.
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/ 26 September 2007
Massive resource transfers to poor countries from rich countries are needed if the world wants to attain its Millennium Developmental Goals, South African President Thabo Mbeki told the 62nd session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York late on Tuesday.
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/ 26 September 2007
Pakistan deployed dozens of police officers including elite commandos as the South African cricket team arrived in Karachi on Wednesday for a month-long tour of the country. South Africa are due to play two Tests and five one-day internationals in the violence-hit Islamic republic.
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/ 26 September 2007
Film producer Johan Heyns (58) was in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Fourways north of Johannesburg after being shot in the pelvis at his Bryanston home on Sunday night. ”He was already brushing his teeth when he saw a man in a red shirt with him in the bathroom,” said his wife, Sue Heyns.
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/ 26 September 2007
Burma security forces sealed off Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda on Wednesday, fired tear gas and arrested up to 80 monks trying to get into the shrine, cracking down on the biggest anti-junta protests in nearly 20 years. Witnesses said some of the deeply revered Buddhist clergy were beaten by riot police taking them away from the shrine.
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/ 26 September 2007
Ferran Adrià is widely acknowledged as one of the best chefs in the world, famous for his innovative dishes. People wait for months to get a table at his legendary restaurant on the Costa Brava, El Bulli. But now the Catalan chef has turned his attentions to hospital food.
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/ 26 September 2007
The leader of a breakaway polygamous sect of Mormons was on Tuesday convicted of abetting in the rape of a 14-year-old girl who was forcibly married off to a cousin. Warren Jeffs (51) is the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and revered by his followers as God’s prophet.
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/ 26 September 2007
At least 27 workers were killed and about 100 others feared dead or missing after a bridge they were building in Vietnam’s southern city of Can Tho collapsed on Wednesday. Vietnam TV showed footage of the damage to the collapsed structure and reported that people were still believed to be trapped in the rubble.
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/ 26 September 2007
Troops and riot police took up positions outside at least six big activist monasteries in Yangon on Wednesday as Burma’s junta tried to prevent monks leading new protest marches against military rule. There was no immediate word from the monks on whether they would risk their first major confrontation with the junta.
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/ 26 September 2007
The population growth of the latter 20th century will come to be seen as one of the biggest events in history. Though slowing, this significant increase has by no means come to an end: today’s 6,6-billion can be expected, under the United Nations’s "middle" scenario, to reach 9,2-billion by 2050.