No image available
/ 15 September 2005
Australia’s opposition Labour Party was in strife on Thursday after former leader Mark Latham said successor Kim Beazley was not fit to clean the toilets in Canberra’s Parliament House let alone head the country’s second biggest political force.
No image available
/ 15 September 2005
Two KwaZulu-Natal ambulance men had a narrow escape on Wednesday night when their ambulance was hijacked by gunmen. Captain Jabulani Mdletshe said driver Senzo Mkhumbuzi and colleague Paul Hlope were called out to Sonto Reserve in Mseleni to pick up a sick man at around 10pm.
No image available
/ 15 September 2005
Wayne Rooney’s ejection for sarcastically applauding a referee was a red card waiting to happen. The talented but volatile teenager was sent off playing for Manchester United in a 0-0 Champions League tie at Villarreal on Wednesday. It’s the same sort of petulance he showed playing for England in last week’s stunning 1-0 World Cup qualifying loss to Northern Ireland.
No image available
/ 15 September 2005
Both Ernie Els and Retief Goosen have committed themselves to play at this year’s South African Airways Open which will take place at The Links at Fancourt in George from December 15 to 18. Knee surgery following an injury has kept Els out of action since July but he is hoping to be back in competition around the end of November and expects to be fully recovered in time for the Open.
No image available
/ 15 September 2005
City officials in the capital of ex-Soviet Georgia voted to rename a street after United States President George Bush, an official statement released on Thursday said. The decision to rename the rundown residential street was taken at a council meeting on Wednesday.
No image available
/ 15 September 2005
The candidate aspiring to be Liberia’s first elected woman president is canvassing for votes among a crowd of young men who make their living washing cars. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf wonders aloud why no women or girls are with them. ”Because this is a very hard job,” shouts one man.
No image available
/ 15 September 2005
Opec has cut its estimate for the expected increase in global oil demand this year for the fifth time in a row, with the increase now expected to be 1,7% from the 2004 figure, its monthly report showed on Thursday. Global demand is now forecast to be an average 83,5-million barrels per day.
No image available
/ 15 September 2005
The current government of Côte d’Ivoire should remain in place until elections are held, even if this does not happen by October 31 as planned, South Africa said on Thursday. Regarding the rejection of South Africa’s mediation by the New Forces, Lekota said the country will continue its work until its mandate is withdrawn.
No image available
/ 15 September 2005
One of the Protestant paramilitary groups implicated in three nights of rioting in Belfast called on Tuesday for an end to the violence, the worst Northern Ireland has seen in years. Sixty police officers and at least 10 civilians have been hurt in the clashes, which erupted over a ban on a Protestant parade through Roman Catholic areas of Belfast.
No image available
/ 15 September 2005
An explosion and fire at a fireworks factory on Thursday killed at least 32 people in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, news reports said. The toll was expected to rise as rescue workers continued to remove bodies from the rubble and battle the blaze at the plant and three of its warehouses.