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/ 9 September 2006
South Africa rugby captain John Smit says the pressure to beat Australia on Saturday is greater than it was before they upended New Zealand last weekend to end a five-Test losing streak. The last match in the Tri-Nations will not change the placings, with the All Blacks having retained the title last month.
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/ 9 September 2006
England rugby star Jonny Wilkinson could be facing life on the sidelines again after twisting his knee in Newcastle’s dramatic victory over Worcester at Kingston Park on Friday. Wilkinson was helped from the field early in the second half after being caught under a teammate at the bottom of a ruck.
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/ 9 September 2006
South Africa’s Ernie Els moved into a one-shot lead early in the Singapore Open third round before play was suspended due to the threat of lightning on Saturday. Els was even par for his round and six under for the tournament, just ahead of two Australians, defending champion Adam Scott and overnight co-leader Scott Strange.
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/ 9 September 2006
As dusk falls in a jungle clearing in the wild borderlands of Southern Sudan near the Ugandan border, villagers stare nervously into a twisted mass of trees. Somewhere out there, hidden in the surrounding thick bush, are Lord’s Resistance Army rebels who have terrorised this region since being driven out of northern Uganda where they have waged a brutal, nearly 20-year insurgency.
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/ 9 September 2006
A three-judge panel said on Friday it would rule on December 13 on a plea by the Basarwa, also known as Bushmen, to stay on ancestral homelands that also harbour vast mineral and diamond potential. The suit, the longest running legal battle in Botswana’s post-colonial history, followed the government’s attempt to evict the Basarwa from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
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/ 9 September 2006
Israeli troops in southern Lebanon detained four men on Friday for questioning in what appeared to be the first arrests since a ceasefire ended the war with Hezbollah. An Israeli patrol south of the village of Aita as-Shaab, the scene of heavy clashes during the 34-day conflict, detained the men on Friday afternoon, the Israeli military said.
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/ 9 September 2006
As sunbathers lay on the beach beneath towering hotels and British tourists browsed in a souvenir shop called Bloody Hell Offer On Ciggies, a strange vessel slowly floated into shore past the jet-skis and Jolly Roger pirate ships of Tenerife’s prime package holiday resort.
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/ 9 September 2006
When Discovery Communications launched the Animal Planet television channel in 1996, network executives hunted for a star to help distinguish it from the staid, narrated documentaries that were the hallmark of animal shows. What they found was Steve Irwin, a hyper and sometimes bug-eyed Australian unafraid to trade body blows with powerful crocodiles.
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/ 9 September 2006
A series of videos showing a 16-year-old girl opining about life, relationships, planets, cookies and religion from the orderly confines of her bedroom somewhere in smalltown America has become the pop culture hit of the summer. The short video blog postings by lonelygirl15 on the YouTube website have attracted millions of viewers since they started appearing in May.
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/ 9 September 2006
A full-scale row threatened to erupt in Nato on Friday night with alliance commanders demanding more soldiers and aircraft to defeat the Taliban and their supporters. In what Britain and the United States regard as an unprecedented test for the alliance, Germany and France came under intense pressure to provide more forces.