Archaeologists from a television team will celebrate the 80th birthday of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth by digging up the manicured lawns and gardens at three of her palaces to trace their history. At Windsor Castle they hope to unearth Edward III’s Round Table building which they believe lies under the Queen’s ceremonial lawn.
The Zimbabwean army plans to go on a massive recruitment drive next year because veterans of the 1970s war of independence are due to retire from active service, reports said this week. Veterans of the guerrilla war that eventually ousted the white minority government have comprised the highest-ranking officers in the army, state television reported late on Thursday.
Ethiopia on Friday appealed for at least -million to help thousands of people displaced by fatal floods that have ravaged the Horn of Africa nation since the beginning of this month amid fears of more floods. As emergency workers struggled against poor weather, federal authorities said the funding would help alleviate suffering in the flooded regions.
SABMiller, one of the world’s leading brewers, announced on Friday that its Peruvian subsidiary Backus and Johnston will invest $102-million in infrastructural projects in Peru. The investment will include the expansion of the brew house at its Ate facility to the east of Lima and a significant upgrade of packaging capability across the country.
Tiger Woods said he would like to see testing on the PGA Tour for performance-enhancing drugs as soon as possible to make sure golf remains clean. ”I don’t know when we could get that implemented,” Woods said. ”Tomorrow would be fine with me.” Woods did not say he thought anyone was using steroids, but said it could be a problem in the future.
Another United States sprinter coached by Trevor Graham has tested positive for use of a performance-boosting drug, according to the Chicago Tribune in its edition on Friday. LaTasha Jenkins, silver medallist at the 2001 indoor world championships, was tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone in July, the report said.
South Africa suffered yet another injury blow ahead of their Tri-Nations Test against New Zealand in Pretoria on Saturday when loose forward Joe van Niekerk was ruled out. The Springboks have already lost International Rugby Board 2004 Player of the Year Schalk Burger to a career-threatening neck injury and in-form Juan Smith went down in midweek with a thigh strain.
Zimbabwe’s Minister of Finance, Herbert Murerwa, on Monday launched a thinly veiled attack on Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono when he told Parliament he had not been consulted on the latest currency initiative that has become a new political front in the Zanu-PF power struggle.
Since search engines entered the world interviews have become a circular form in which almost every interviewer asks the same questions as every previous interviewer, writes Pico Iyer.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews the latest example of the "mockumentary" genre, <i>Confetti</i>.