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/ 13 September 2006
Into the painted case went a bottle of red wine, an old floppy disc, a CD and scores of written messages. It was sealed for the next decade, to be opened in 2016. The action of creating the ”time-box” took place at the Highway Africa conference in Grahamstown this week, where hundreds of journalists got together to talk technology, media freedom … and, unusually, media history.
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/ 13 September 2006
Spanish duo, titleholders Barcelona, and Valencia swept to victory in their opening Champions League salvoes on Tuesday. Barca blew away Levski Sofia 5-0 in a torrential downpour while Valencia recorded an impressive 4-2 away victory at Olympiakos with the rejuvenated Fernando Morientes scoring a hat-trick.
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/ 13 September 2006
Australia captain Ricky Ponting is surprised Andrew Flintoff got the nod to lead England in the Ashes, but sees nothing in their squad to force Australia to alter their preparations. ”It doesn’t really matter whatever squad they have named. It won’t change what we do at all,” he said in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, where Australia are playing a triangular one-day series.
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/ 13 September 2006
Wallaby back Mat Rogers will switch codes again and join the National Rugby League’s Gold Coast Titans after next year’s Rugby World Cup, the team announced on Wednesday. Rogers will complete contractual obligations to the Australian and New South Wales rugby unions before joining the Titans on a two-year contract worth  000, the team said.
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/ 13 September 2006
Jose Mourinho embraced controversy once again after his Chelsea side’s 2-0 Champions League victory over Werder Bremen on Tuesday, suggesting that there was more to the four bookings his side collected than simply a referee keen to crack down on technical offences.
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/ 13 September 2006
Australia captain Ricky Ponting has apologised for a ”serious error of judgement” after confronting umpire Asad Rauf over a wide delivery in their one-day match against the West Indies on Tuesday. Ponting was fined his entire match fee for breaching the International Cricket Council Code of Conduct during his country’s 78-run victory in the first DLF Cup match.
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/ 13 September 2006
Being different is good — car dealers’ showrooms are overflowing with boring vehicles that all look the same. ”Oh, look! They’ve given it a big silver grille and moved the cab right forward. We must remember to do that next time!” A couple of years later all the offerings in the class look the same, and the designers are hard at work crafting something a little ”different.”
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/ 13 September 2006
North Korea’s subÂterranean detonation of a nuclear bomb came as a shock to the international community. Naturally it came as a greater shock to the dozen dissidents who were no doubt volunteered to man the observation cage, bolted to the tunnel floor roughly six feet from the alarm-clock-activated detonator. But nevertheless the outrage of the wider world seems justified.
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/ 13 September 2006
A British tourist rescued from the Australian outback had to be saved a second time when he returned to the wilderness to look for his belongings, it was reported on Wednesday. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation said the 50-year-old man was taken to Alice Springs hospital on Wednesday morning after spending four nights lost in the rugged Northern Territory.
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/ 13 September 2006
The JSE continued its recovery on Wednesday supported by firmer world markets. But lower commodity prices took a chunk from the JSE’s gains. By 11.52am, the all share and all share industrial indices climbed 0,36% and 0,3% respectively. Financials firmed 1,32% and the banks index was bolstered 1,67%.