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/ 1 September 2006
An armless New Zealand man has been cleared of dangerous driving after being found driving a speeding car with his feet. Police dropped the charges on Friday after Colin Smith (31) provided evidence he could drive an unmodified car with automatic gears safely, despite being born without arms.
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/ 1 September 2006
Shopkeepers and homeowners in Baghdad cleared rubble and looked for bodies on Friday, the morning after a series of explosions devastated homes and a bazaar just before nightfall, killing up to 50 people. Some five times that number were injured, the health minister said, and hospitals were packed with the wounded.
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/ 1 September 2006
Australia coach John Connolly will resist the temptation to experiment with a new line-up in the Wallabies’ final Tri-Nations match against South Africa. Neither side can win the series with New Zealand having already wrapped up the title but Connolly said there was still plenty at stake.
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/ 1 September 2006
Tropical Storm Ernesto hit North Carolina near hurricane strength on Thursday, flooding some coastal areas in both Carolina states though there were no immediate reports of casualties. The centre of Ernesto made landfall at Long Beach, sustaining winds of around 113kph, just short of the 119kph needed for hurricane status, the United States National Hurricane Centre said.
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/ 1 September 2006
For local football supporters, the most indelible memory of South Africa’s six encounters with Congo Brazzaville is from August 16 nine years ago. On a mild Saturday afternoon, Bafana Bafana’s lone striker, Phil Masinga, ensured the national team’s first ever qualification for the World Cup in time for the 1998 tournament in France.
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/ 1 September 2006
Three patrol boats from Spain and Italy were heading towards Senegal on Thursday to try to stop vessels bringing migrants into Europe via the Canary Islands. The boats, which will team up with three Senegalese patrol vessels, are moving into place along the African coastline as Spanish authorities report that as many migrants have reached the Canary Islands in August as in the whole of last year.
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/ 1 September 2006
As the sympathetic examiner handed me my Mensa IQ test results, I had a sense of how the Pakistani cricket team must feel about Aussie umpire Darrell Hair. The difference, of course, was that the examiner wasn’t the stupid one. A few days earlier I had attended a local get-together of this international organisation for people with an IQ in the top 2% of the population, writes Charles Leonard.
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/ 1 September 2006
What started weeks ago with Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) activists occupying the Human Rights Commission offices in Cape Town may end with the pressure group taking President Thabo Mbeki to court in an attempt to get Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang fired. The lobby group says there are several legal avenues that could be explored if the president were to be brought before the court.
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/ 1 September 2006
This week will see the climax of Jacob Zuma and the Thint group’s bid to have the graft case against them thrown out. Both claim their right to a fair trial has been irreparably compromised. Thint’s case — based on an agreement between it and then prosecutions chief Bulelani Ngcuka in April 2004 — is probably stronger.
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/ 1 September 2006
The body of United Independent Front (UIF) leader Malizolo Diko had barely grown cold when his party colleagues were at one another’s throats over who should succeed him. UIF national executive committee member Mzwandile Manjiya has approached the Cape High Court in a bid to stop anyone being appointed to Diko’s parliamentary seat, vacant since his death.