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/ 27 November 2005
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has visited Harbin in the country’s north-east and ordered local leaders to restore running water to 3,8-million people who spent a fourth day without supplies after a benzene spill in a nearby river. Beijing has also apologised to Moscow for the toxic chemicals flowing toward Russia.
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/ 27 November 2005
France scored two tries in the first 10 minutes and held out South Africa 26-20 in a rugby international at Stade de France on Saturday. Early tries by Dimitri Szarzewski and Frederic Michalak helped France lead 15-0 at half-time, though captain Jerome Thion left shortly afterward from an elbow in the face by South African counterpart John Smit.
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/ 27 November 2005
Eager children scramble for them in Zimbabwe. Camels carry them through remotest Kenya. They are impossible to buy from a legitimate seller in Sierra Leone. They have solved problems, launched businesses and careers, created dreams, fired imaginations, changed lives and saved lives. They are taken for granted in Britain, but 113-million children worldwide do not have access to them.
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/ 26 November 2005
The Toronto zoo has recovered a red panda that had escaped its pen and evaded capture for more than a month by blending in with Canada’s colourful red maple leaves, officials said on Friday. The nine-year-old animal was found by a gardener this week sitting in a tree about 2km away, healthy, but a bit thinner.
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/ 26 November 2005
Stung by the rejection of a new Constitution he backed, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has moved to restore flagging confidence in his leadership with a pair of tough political moves, analysts said on Friday. Kibaki sacked his entire Cabinet and then suspended next week’s planned reopening of Parliament.
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/ 26 November 2005
About 100 people were feared dead after two packed passenger buses skidded off bridges in southern India amid heavy rains, police and officials said on Saturday. The bridges had been swamped by water due to lashing rains, the worst in years, that have turned some parts of the state into lakes.
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/ 26 November 2005
A Japanese spacecraft successfully landed on a far-away asteroid on Saturday for a second time and almost certainly collected the first-ever samples from such a celestial body, Japan’s space agency said. The Hayabusa probe is on a landmark mission to bring back material from the Itokawa asteroid.
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/ 26 November 2005
More than 150 people were left destitute after a fire swept through the Joe Slovo informal settlement in Langa in the Western Cape on Saturday morning. Cape Town emergency-services spokesperson Johan Minnie said the blaze began in the early hours of Saturday and has since been extinguished.
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/ 26 November 2005
The present South Africa side should still be the one to represent the 1995 World Cup winners in the 2007 renewal, coach Jake White said on Friday. ”This is a squad that takes the sport really seriously, and given the history of the Springboks, the fans expect us to win,” he said.
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/ 26 November 2005
The ceremonial changing of the Bafana Bafana guard was enacted on Friday with canny former Kaizer Chiefs and Mamelodi Sundowns coach Ted Dumitru predictably entrenched for the African Nations Cup — and Stanley ”Screamer” Tshabalala not so predictably clinging to the position of team general manager.