The momentum in the gold price continues and the gold market seems set for a sustained positive cycle, world number three gold miner AngloGold Ashanti said on Friday. On Friday morning, gold climbed to $682,15 a troy ounce — its highest level since October 1980 when gold fixed at a high of $690/oz.
The proclamation and expropriation of land for the Gautrain Project has begun, the Gauteng Provincial Government said in a statement late on Thursday. The proclamation of properties needed for the first phases of construction will be published in the <i>Provincial Gazette</i> on Friday.
Instantly supplanting the War of Jenkins’s Ear as history’s most depressing conflict about a body part is the War of Rooney’s Foot, currently being waged between Sir Alex Ferguson and Sven-Goran Eriksson. Yet as they fiddle, the rest of us get on with the real business: whom to burn for The End of the Dream.
The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, installed his new government on Thursday with praise for the settler movement and a pledge to make the main Jewish colonies in the West Bank permanently part of Israel by redrawing the country’s borders.
With a final curse on his lips, Zacarias Moussaoui, the only man held accountable on US soil for the September 11 2001 terror attacks, was led from a courtroom on Thursday to spend the rest of his days in solitary confinement in a super-maximum security prison in Colorado.
Body Shop, the self-styled ethical retailer that is currently being taken over by French cosmetics giant L’Oreal, reported on Friday a 5% increase in annual pre-tax profits. Profit before tax rose to £37,6-million during its 2005/2006 financial year, compared with £35,7-million previously.
The humanitarian disaster unfolding in Darfur was due to receive its most prominent exposure so far on American television on Thursday night. But it says much about the interface between politics and celebrity that the coverage was not to be found on any of the three main evening news broadcasts, which have devoted only 10 minutes to the crisis between them since the start of the year.
The extreme right British National Party (BNP) on Friday was celebrating a rise in support in local elections across Britain, saying it showed that voters were fed up with immigrants and asylum seekers. Eleven out of 13 BNP candidates put forward in Barking and Dagenham, a constituency east of London, won seats with one more ward still to declare.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair sacked his home secretary and moved other key ministers in a sweeping Cabinet reshuffle on Friday after voters punished his scandal-hit Labour Party in local elections. Blair also stripped Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott of many of his responsibilities.
Ah, the final Sunday of the Premiership. Glorious spring. This year, sadly, there’s not that much to play for. Chelsea have romped off with the title, paying a mere £600-million for the privilege of becoming the second side ever to retain the Premiership. Sunderland have finished bottom by a record-breaking margin, even if they get something at Villa Park on Sunday.