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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
It’s the stuff of science fiction: a prosthetic arm that can be moved just by thinking about it and can feel heat and the pressure of a handshake. It became a reality for United States marine Claudia Mitchell two years after she lost her arm in a motorcycle accident, researchers said last week.
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/ 18 September 2006
Italy won its first Fed Cup title Sunday, beating Belgium 3-2 after Justine Henin-Hardenne retired with an knee injury during the deciding doubles match. The French Open champion won both her singles matches this weekend despite several health complaints, but she was forced to abandon the final in the third set of the decisive doubles when a knee muscle gave way.
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/ 18 September 2006
Chelsea and Arsenal were the winners on ”Grand Slam Sunday” in the English Premier League. Didier Drogba scored a stunning goal late in the first half in Chelsea’s 1-0 victory over Liverpool, and Arsenal won its first league game of the season by beating rival Manchester United 1-0 at Old Trafford on Emmanuel Adebayor’s goal in the 85th.
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/ 18 September 2006
Chinese surgeons have performed the world’s first penis transplant on a man whose organ was damaged beyond repair in an accident this year. The incident left the man with a 1cm-long stump with which he was unable to urinate or have sexual intercourse. ”His quality of life was affected severely,” said Dr Weilie Hu, a surgeon at Guangzhou General Hospital.
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/ 18 September 2006
Ajax Cape Town and Kaizer Chiefs both made it four draws from four games when they played a goalless Premier League game at the Kimberley Stadium on Sunday afternoon. But it could have been worse for Chiefs, with Rowen Fernandez saving a 70th minute penalty from new Bafana squad member Nathan Paulse.
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/ 18 September 2006
Italian police were on Sunday ordered to tighten security at potential Catholic targets across the country as the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church anxiously waited to see if a personal expression of regret by Pope Benedict would assuage Muslim fury over his remarks on Islam.
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/ 18 September 2006
A 14-year-old girl who was kidnapped and held in a booby-trapped bunker was rescued by South Carolina police after she sent a cry for help by SMS to her mother. Elizabeth Shoaf, from Lugoff, a rural area near the state capital Columbia, was abducted on September 6 as she got off her school bus. She was held in a pit dug on the side of a hill in woodland about a kilometre from her home.
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/ 18 September 2006
More than a dozen Zimbabwean trade union leaders were tortured in police custody last week, according to harrowing testimony from their hospital beds and statements by their lawyers and doctors. Human rights groups cited the accounts and gave warning of an increase in ”rampant” violent abuse inflicted by government agents on critics of President Robert Mugabe’s regime.
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/ 18 September 2006
Twenty five-year-old South African javelin thrower Hardus Pienaar recorded one of his best performances on the international scene when he finished second in the 10th IAAF World Cup meeting in Athens on Sunday with a throw of 83,62m. The event was won by Andreas Thorkildsen, Norway’s world number one, with a throw of 87,17m.