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/ 24 November 2005
Call it Zuluwood. In a bid to expand audiences for south Indian movies, the Tamil film Priyasakhi is being dubbed into Zulu, a language spoken by nearly nine million people in South Africa. Priyasakhi is a story of love, separation and reunion between a rich girl and a middle-class boy.
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/ 24 November 2005
An 80km-long slick of highly toxic benzene flowed along the icy Songhua river into one of China’s biggest cities on Thursday, contaminating water supplies for up to four million people. The carcinogenic chemical reached the outskirts of Harbin at about 5am on Thursday, authorities said.
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/ 24 November 2005
As Zimbabweans go to the ballot on Saturday to elect members to a new and controversial Upper House of Parliament, the buzz is not about the polls but rather on chronic food shortages and the economic meltdown. The country’s major labour movement said the Senate is a waste of scarce money.
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/ 24 November 2005
A teenage boy who has been meditating under a tree in the verdant forests of southern Nepal is attracting thousands of pilgrims who are convinced the youth is another Buddha. Devotees flock daily to catch sight of Ram Bahadur Banjan, who sits cross-legged and silent with his eyes shut beneath a tree.
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/ 24 November 2005
Nepal’s main political parties and Maoist insurgents have agreed to work together to end the rule of the king, who sacked the government and seized power in a coup nine months ago. In a clear attempt to isolate the monarchy, the left-wing guerrillas said they will disarm under ”international” supervision.
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/ 24 November 2005
As Americans sit down to eat 40-million turkeys for Thursday’s Thanksgiving holiday, and President George Bush recovers from the annual Turkey Ceremony in Washington, there are signs that the fowl are biting back. A rash of wild-turkey attacks on humans has been reported around the country.
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/ 24 November 2005
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Police are conducting tests on former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s blood to compare it with the DNA of semen found on the underwear of his alleged rape victim, Beeld newspaper reported on Thursday. It said the forensic test results will soon be handed to senior police officials.
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/ 24 November 2005
Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was propelled into a crisis on Wednesday after MPs rejected his third nominee as oil minister, the most strategically sensitive post in his government, amid a rising chorus of domestic criticism of the president’s confrontational style.
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/ 24 November 2005
Four resplendent Siberian chipmunks with their pouched cheeks and striped fur are wanted dead or alive after fleeing from an enclosure in southern England. The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs said the chipmunks could muscle out wood mice and bank voles in the fight for seeds, nuts and berries.
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/ 24 November 2005
East Africa’s most stable democracy was plunged into political crisis on Wednesday night when Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki sacked his entire Cabinet after suffering a defeat in a referendum on a new Constitution. Voters called for a new Constitution to limit the Presidency’s powers.