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/ 18 September 2006
Details emerged on Sunday about the seven interrogation techniques the CIA is seeking to be allowed to apply to terror suspects. Newsweek magazine reported that a New York lawyer, Scott Horton, who has acted as an adviser to the United States senate on interrogation methods, had acquired a list of the techniques.
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/ 18 September 2006
Unionists began streaming into Gallagher Estate for the ninth congress of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) on Monday. Jacob Zuma, the deputy president of the African National Congress, was expected to use the congress to kick-start his campaign for the party’s presidency.
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/ 18 September 2006
With a steady stream of bleak predictions that ”water wars” will be fought over dwindling supplies in the 21st century, battles between two Sumerian city-states 4 500 years ago seem to set a worrying precedent. But the good news, many experts say, is that the conflict between Lagash and Umma over irrigation rights in what is now Iraq was the last time two states went to war over water.
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/ 18 September 2006
It’s a jungle out there: the number of sightings of non-indigenous, exotic animals in Britain has sky-rocketed in the last six years, according to a study released on Monday. More than 10Â 000 sightings of everything from wallabies to dangerous spiders, crocodiles and even a penguin have been recorded since 2000, with the rise attributed to climate change, zoo thefts and animal escapes.
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/ 18 September 2006
From experienced mountaineers to casual hikers, foreign tourists are discovering the spectacular mountains of Kyrgyzstan, a small Central Asian republic as yet untouched by mass tourism. Top of the list for visiting climbers is the town of Karakol, in the east of this former Soviet republic, half of which is more than 3Â 000m above sea level.
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/ 18 September 2006
When she decided to spend her holidays in tiny Montenegro last year, Sian McDermott did not imagine she would be joining thousands of other English people discovering what she now calls a new paradise. Only a year later, she has become the owner of an old-stone house near the sea and started working in a real estate agency in a bid to bring more Westerners to Boka Bay.
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/ 18 September 2006
Sudan is expected to withdraw its deadline for African Union (AU) peacekeepers to leave the war-torn western region of Darfur at the end of this month, when AU foreign ministers discuss the mounting crisis in New York on Monday, according to senior officials in Khartoum.
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/ 18 September 2006
Pretoria police were investigating the case on Monday of a man who had kept his mother’s corpse in a fridge for five years, police said. Inspector Katlego Mogale said the man had kept the body in a coffin in his Colby home for five years after his mother died from a stroke.
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/ 18 September 2006
Four decades after Captain Kirk and crew zoomed off at warp speed to ”the final frontier”, the iconic sci-fi series Star Trek returns to broadcast television this week with an extensive digital face-lift. CBS Paramount Domestic Television is digitally remastering all 79 episodes of the original series to enhance the show’s 1960s-era visual effects with 21st-century computer-generated graphics.
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/ 18 September 2006
Patricia Kennedy Lawford, the sister of President John F Kennedy and wife of English actor Peter Lawford, who tirelessly supported the political campaigns of her brothers, died on Sunday at the age of 82. A life-long lover of the arts who devoted much of her time to charity work, Lawford died surrounded by family at her home in New York from complications from pneumonia.