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/ 5 September 2006
On the northern outskirts of Beijing, an army of migrant workers is twisting and welding a 100 000-tonne tangle of steel into a stadium-sized bird’s nest. A short sprint away, the scaffold wrapping of a vast swimming centre has been partly peeled away to reveal a translucent bubble-like coating. Everywhere thickets of cranes are raising up sports halls, athletes’ dormitories and guest hotels.
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/ 5 September 2006
When it comes to celebrity divorces, don’t expect half measures. On top of claims of vodka-induced rages, emotional manipulation and husband-bashing, a new charge has been added in the multimillion-dollar spat between Liza Minnelli and her estranged husband: poisoning.
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/ 5 September 2006
All possible assistance was being given to six South African exchange pupils injured in an Argentinian bus crash, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday. The South African ambassador to Argentina, Piet Goosen, had been in touch with the injured after the accident in which 10 people died and 20 were injured.
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/ 5 September 2006
Rival Palestinian factions are close to forming a new power-sharing government which the militant group Hamas expects to lead, the Palestinian Prime Minister, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Monday. A national unity government is intended to lift the international freeze on funding to the Palestinian Authority, which has left it facing an economic crisis.
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/ 5 September 2006
Old Mutual has unveiled its much anticipated black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction in Namibia which will result in a broad range of black stakeholders acquiring direct ownership of N$308-million of the Old Mutual Group’s Namibian businesses.
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/ 5 September 2006
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A few hundred supporters of Jacob Zuma marched up and down Pietermaritzburg’s Church Street on Tuesday ahead of the former deputy president’s court appearance. ”Fight conspiracy and demand justice,” read one of the banners the protesters carried.
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/ 5 September 2006
Southern Africa’s public health services are in a state of emergency. Bad pay and working conditions, plus the impact of HIV/Aids, are bleeding the system of its most valuable resource: people. With the cost of training a general practice doctor estimated to be $60Â 000, and that of training a medical auxiliary at $12Â 000.
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/ 5 September 2006
Sarajevo, where some people used to go hungry in order to feed their pets during Bosnia’s war, today shows little sympathy to stray dogs, killing them in their thousands each year. But a group of animal-rights activists hopes to improve the plight of pooches in the Bosnian capital, having finally found support from official ranks to help their bid to offer dogs ”life instead of death”.
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/ 5 September 2006
Turks are robust enough to react calmly to the threats from a break-away Kurdish group to turn the country into ”hell” in an attempt to scare away foreign tourists and damage the economy. But it is nevertheless alarming that six bomb attacks have been carried out this week, killing three people and injuring scores of others.
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/ 5 September 2006
Europe’s ”Christian values” should be enshrined in a new version of the European Union Constitution, German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared last week after meeting the pope. In remarks that will reopen the debate on religion in the EU, Merkel threw her weight behind Pope Benedict’s campaign to recognise Europe’s Christian heritage.