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/ 14 January 2005
Nearly three weeks after the disaster, even the most persistent are giving up their search for the thousands of people who disappeared during the Boxing Day tsunami, especially in hard-hit countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
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/ 14 January 2005
Mamelodi Sundowns hope to register their first win under new coach Angel Cappa against Ajax Cape Town at Loftus Stadium on Saturday night, despite being without two trusted players. ”We have a big pool of players who will do the job for us on Saturday. Ajax are in serious trouble,” warned marketing and communications manager Alax Shakoane.
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/ 14 January 2005
The Anglo-Dutch energy giant Shell has ended the latest crisis to disrupt oil production in Nigeria’s unruly Niger Delta, the firm said on Friday, reopening facilities closed down by community protests. At the height of the crisis, 114 000 barrels per day of Shell’s production were shut in.
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/ 14 January 2005
Police in southern France on Friday reported the first suicide from the Millau viaduct, the world’s tallest bridge, after finding the body of a man at the base of one of its seven pillars. The man, who was not immediately identified, apparently abandoned his car on the bridge before climbing over the side rail and jumping to his death.
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/ 14 January 2005
An enormous white zeppelin described as the world’s largest successfully completed its maiden flight on Friday in Japan. The German-made, 75m-long airship wafted into blue skies above the western port city of Kobe on Friday morning for half an hour before embarking on a five-hour flight to Nagoya in central Japan.
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/ 14 January 2005
The director and two curators of the South African National Museum of Military History were arrested on Thursday night for stockpiling working weapons and military vehicles, the museum said. ”Police … have accused us of stockpiling weapons as if we were preparing for a war,” said acting museum director Sandy Mckenzie.
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/ 14 January 2005
Any staff found to have been involved in cheating in last year’s Mpumalanga matric examinations will be punished appropriately, Minister of Education Naledi Pandor said on Friday. ”Minister Pandor is committed to ensuring that where criminal conduct and fraud is committed, the full might of the law is applied,” her ministry said.
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/ 14 January 2005
Emergency rescue personnel were trying to rescue 20 people stranded high on a roller coaster that malfunctioned on Friday afternoon at the Ratanga Junction entertainment complex outside Cape Town. A strong south-easter blowing at gale-force was complicating the rescue. Metro emergency officials said no injuries were reported.
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/ 14 January 2005
England captain Michael Vaughan led a remarkable comeback after tea on the second day of the fourth Castle Lager/MTN cricket Test against South Africa on Friday. At close of play, England had 411 for the loss of eight wickets, and appeared to have taken total control of the match again.
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/ 14 January 2005
Thieves have relieved the Johannesburg Art Gallery of a valuable 19th-century Dutch pre-Impressionist painting — the fourth heist at the institution in the past eight years. Johann Barthold Jongkind’s A Normandy Beach was painted in 1863 and donated to the gallery by mining magnate Otto Beit.