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/ 17 December 2005
The disease is not new and neither is the cure. This poses a problem for the doctors of Khayelitsha. The means of diagnosing tuberculosis was established long ago, and the rigid regime of drug treatment that once led to predictions of its eventual eradication has been in place for 40 years.
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/ 17 December 2005
The trial of one of the world’s leading novelists, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s most important free-speech test case for years, was adjourned for seven weeks on Friday. The case was put back to February 7, while the Turkish government was handed the hot political potato of deciding whether to prosecute the author or drop the case.
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/ 17 December 2005
Political leaders in Iraq and abroad focused on Saturday on the shape of a government for the next four years, mulling how to include Sunni elements and tackle the nation’s endemic violence. Though the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq cautioned that ballots were still being counted and official results would not be available for some time, preliminary estimates indicated polarised results similar to the last elections.
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/ 16 December 2005
One of the South African team’s two minibuses had its tyres slashed in Perth on Friday after day one of the first test between South Africa and Australia. The minibus was parked almost directly outside the team change rooms, leaving half the South African squad stranded and having to walk back to their hotel.
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/ 16 December 2005
One of the South African team’s two minibuses had its tyres slashed in Perth on Friday after day one of the first test between South Africa and Australia. The minibus was parked almost directly outside the team change rooms, leaving half the South African squad stranded and having to walk back to their hotel.
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/ 16 December 2005
Coffee grower Denis Cruz sniffs a handful of yellow-green beans produced from his Honduran farm and sighs. ”They would be worth more if I could sell them through Fair Trade,” he says, ”and the land would be healthier — there wouldn’t be the same pressure on it.”
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/ 16 December 2005
Hundreds of children who were booked on a magical trip to visit Father Christmas were left disappointed on Friday as the company behind the tours went into administration. Nortours, a London-based firm which organised so-called Santa Claus tours to Scandinavia and the Baltics, was forced to call in the administrators after suffering from fierce competition in the travel sector.
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/ 16 December 2005
Malawi dispatched blood and tissue samples to neighbouring South Africa on Friday to be tested for avian influenza after thousands of migratory birds were found dead on a hill in the central Ntchisi district. Agriculture officials expressed alarm after local villagers started scooping up the dead fork-tailed drongos — known locally as namzenze — to eat earlier this week.
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/ 16 December 2005
Nepal’s seven biggest parties called for a general strike on Friday to protest against the killings of a dozen people after a drunken soldier fired into a crowd of Hindu pilgrims on the outskirts of Kathmandu. At least a score more were wounded in the shooting at a temple in Nagarkot on Wednesday night.
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/ 16 December 2005
The White House bowed to international and congressional pressure on Thursday and abandoned its opposition to Senate legislation prohibiting the use of cruel, inhuman or degrading interrogation methods of detainees in US custody around the world.