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/ 3 August 2005

New Zealand arrive for controversial Zim tour

New Zealand arrived in Harare on Tuesday for the start of their controversial tour of Zimbabwe. They spent most of the day travelling from the Namibian capital, Windhoek, where they had a week’s preparation for two Test matches and a triangular one-day international series involving Zimbabwe and India over the next month.

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/ 3 August 2005

Loo with a view plumbs the heights

Australia’s highest mountain can’t compete with the stature of Everest, K2 and Kilimanjaro. But Mount Kosciuszko in the New South Wales Snowy Mountains will soon boast something few others can: a state-of-the-art loo. A toilet resembling a hobbit hole is to be built on the freezing rooftop of Australia, 2&nsp;108m above sea level.

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/ 3 August 2005

Passengers escape death as plane crashes in Toronto

Television cameras captured dramatic images of an Air France passenger jet in flames moments after the packed plane apparently skidded off a runway and fell into a ravine on Tuesday night. Steve Shaw, a vice-president of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority, said there were no fatalities among the 297 passengers and 12 crew on board the plane.

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/ 3 August 2005

More documents seized in Cape Town tender probe

Police on Tuesday seized more documents in their continuing probe into claims of tender irregularities in Cape Town, this time from offices in the Civic Centre. Last week detectives raided the offices of procurement director Mabela Satekge in Wale Street in the city centre, as part of what mayoral spokesperson Mandla Tyala said was an investigation into security tenders awarded by the city.