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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
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
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
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
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.
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/ 26 September 2007
The majority of public schools in our country can be regarded as sites of a moral panic that highlights criminality, vandalism, bullying and violence, as well as “drop-out” and academic failure. Middle-class kids experience an education that is largely unchanged in terms of quality and resources from pre-1994 practices, writes Peter Kallaway.
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/ 26 September 2007
During Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, Muslims all over the world abstain from food, drink and other physical needs during the day. It is a time for self-sacrifice and purifying the soul. In the first of a series of articles, Zahira Kharsany tells of the self-discipline needed to go a day without sustenance.
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/ 25 September 2007
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Romania ground out a slogging 14-10 win over brave Portugal for their first win of the Rugby World Cup at Toulouse Stadium in France on Tuesday. The Romanians fought back from 7-0 down at half-time to overpower the Portuguese through their superior forward pack.
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