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/ 20 September 2005
Nine Johannesburg buildings, some of which were built in the art deco style of architecture in the 1930s and 1940s, have been earmarked for destruction. The buildings, which the South African Heritage Resources Agency says are all in good condition, once housed the Rand Water Board, Colonial Bank and Volkskas Bank.
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/ 20 September 2005
Former Tyco International chief Dennis Kozlowski and his top lieutenant, Mark Swartz, were each sentenced to up to 25 years in prison in New York on Monday for looting the company of hundreds of millions of dollars. The two men stood accused of using the conglomerate as a personal piggy bank.
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/ 20 September 2005
Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down numerous Nazi war criminals following World War II and then spent the later decades of his life fighting anti-Semitism and prejudice against all people, died on Tuesday. Wiesenthal spent more than 50 years hunting Nazi war criminals.
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/ 20 September 2005
Commitment — and not reputations — will be key to Bafana Bafana selection for their desperate, reputation-saving game against the Democratic Republic of Congo in Durban on October 8. Coach Stuart Baxter on Monday left no doubt that ”players who are not 100% behind the national team will not be required”.
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/ 20 September 2005
Arsenal centre-back Sol Campbell is targeting an England return after marking his Premiership comeback with both goals in a 2-0 victory against Everton on Monday night. ”I want to be in,” he said. ”One of my main goals is to play for England, but also Arsenal. That’s why I’ve been working hard, and I’m getting better and better.”
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/ 20 September 2005
Commonwealth Games organisers are treating recent terrorist threats against host city Melbourne as little more than rhetoric, despite outlining security plans that involve military aircraft, armed patrols and about 1 200 troops around venues. Victoria state Premier Steve Bracks said the security is appropriate and necessary.
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/ 20 September 2005
Gordon Gould, a pioneer in laser technology who coined the word ”laser” and won a decades-long struggle to secure patent rights for the most commonly used type, has died. He was 85. Gould, a resident of Sag Harbor, on Long Island, once said that his first ideas for the laser came suddenly to him in 1957.
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/ 20 September 2005
The United Nations said on Monday that food distribution targeting Niger’s most vulnerable populations will continue beyond the harvests hoped to return food security to the impoverished West African state. The announcement came amid bubbling controversy over further food distribution beyond harvest time.
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/ 20 September 2005
Al-Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahri said his terror network carried out the July 7 London bombings in a statement broadcast on an Arab satellite television station, marking the group’s first direct claim of responsibility for the attacks that killed 52 people. He also criticised the legitimacy of Sunday’s Afghanistan parliamentary elections.
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/ 20 September 2005
Crude oil prices dipped on Tuesday but stayed above a barrel, while natural gas hit a new all-time high amid concerns that Tropical Storm Rita could eventually strike Texas, the heart of United States oil production, threatening to compound damage from Hurricane Katrina.