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/ 11 December 2004
He is most famous for his far-fetched tale of how dinosaurs could be brought to life with DNA from mosquitoes trapped in amber. Now the bestselling author Michael Crichton has written a thriller about ecoterrorism that the critics say is equally fantastic in its refusal to accept that global warming is a clear and present danger.
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/ 11 December 2004
Kenya has started to repossess millions of hectares of land illegally seized by former president Daniel arap Moi and his cronies during his 24-year rule. An official report published on Friday depicts a vast, kleptocratic looting of land for political patronage, which damaged the economy and stoked ethnic tension.
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/ 11 December 2004
Italy’s Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, was on Friday night cleared of the most serious corruption charge hanging over him when a Milan court ruled that a key accusation — that of bribing a judge with almost 000 — was ”out of time”. He was found not guilty of all other charges.
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/ 11 December 2004
In a night of thrills and great excitement, the Mercedes Warriors beat the Nashua Titans by 23 runs in a Standard Bank Cup limited-overs match at Mercedes-Benz Park in East London on Friday. Set 251 for victory, the Titans, under pressure throughout after losing two quick wickets, finished with 227 for five in a great attempt to win.
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/ 11 December 2004
Retired fast-bowling great Dennis Lillee has warned that Pakistan are a team that produce their best in big matches, and despite lacklustre form on the current tour of Australia they should not be written off. Pakistan take on Australia in three Tests, with the first starting at the Western Australian Cricket Association Ground in Perth next Thursday.
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/ 11 December 2004
Fresh allegations about a regime of torture and humiliation inflicted on detainees by their American captors at Guantánamo Bay have been made by a Briton still held there, according to British Foreign Office documents. The claims are the latest to surface from the prison where the United States holds 550 Muslim men.
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/ 11 December 2004
Ajax Cape Town had to wait until the 89th minute before they gained a 1-0 win and maximum points in their Premier League game against Golden Arrows at a wind-swept Athlone Stadium on Friday night. Brent Carlse’s 20m drive after finally breaking through gave Arrows goalkeeper Daniel Phiri no chance.
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/ 11 December 2004
The story of Friday’s second round at the Dunhill Championship was more about the losers than the winners. After shooting a five-under-par 67 on Thursday to lie one shot off leader Bruce McDonald of Zimbabwe at the Leopard Creek Golf Course, tournament favourite Ernie Els played a slovenly back nine on Friday to shoot a three-over-par 75.
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/ 10 December 2004
Holiday on ice takes on new meaning when you’re high above the rooftops of Paris doing figure eights inside the Eiffel Tower. During the 115 years of the Eiffel Tower’s existence, it has added refreshment stands, trinket shops and fancy restaurants — but nothing quite matches the skating rink in the sky that opened to the public on Friday.
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/ 10 December 2004
A 10th-century stone carving used for many years as a headstone to mark the grave of a British couple’s cat sold for £175 000 (about R1,95-million) at auction on Friday. The stone had been found in a quarry years ago by Johnny Beeston, from Somerset, south-west United Kingdom.