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/ 13 December 2004
Upgraded banknotes with improved security features will be issued from February 1 next year, the South African Reserve Bank said on Monday. This follows the introduction of a new bi-metal R5 coin on August 2 this year. The coin has a bronze-coloured centre and a silver-coloured border.
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/ 13 December 2004
At least 13 people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday when a large explosion ripped through a Christmas market in the southern Philippine city of General Santos. Shoppers fled in panic when the apparently home-made device destroyed the stall it was thought to be hidden in and wrecked most of the surrounding area.
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/ 13 December 2004
It is a contest where beauty is in the eye of the scalpel holder. Nineteen surgical marvels who have been nipped, tucked and stretched to within an inch of their unnaturally taut forms are to battle it out in the first-ever artificial beauty pageant held in China.
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/ 13 December 2004
The original Gone in 60 Seconds showcases a shapely young starlet known simply as ”Eleanor”. HB Halicki’s 1974 action romp credits 28 actors in its cast, but all of them play second fiddle to Eleanor. After that, she probably retired to a garage someplace. Eleanor, you see, was a 1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1.
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/ 13 December 2004
Funny how women view cars so differently from men. With many men, it’s a kind of testosterone thing. With women, it’s often a kind of ”will-it-get-me-home-in-the-dark-without-packing-up-suddenly” thing. So it’s quite interesting to view the selection of finalists chosen by this year’s South African Guild of Motoring Journalists’ jury for Car Of The Year.
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/ 13 December 2004
When the Liverpool footballer Harry Kewell parked his ”greenmobile” beside his team-mates’ Ferraris and Aston Martins he was teased mercilessly over his choice of wheels. But this year’s choice for Car of the year has steered Toyota’s Prius into the motoring mainstream.
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/ 13 December 2004
It was no routine dinner party, its guests as distinguished as its agenda was questionable. On the night of September 5, the leader of the Ukrainian opposition, Viktor Yushchenko, met Igor Smeshko, the head of the Ukrainian security service, the SBU, and his deputy, Volodymyr Stasiuk, reportedly a confidant of the outgoing president, Leonid Kuchma.
Inquiry sought into claims of US funding
Yuschenko was poisoned
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/ 13 December 2004
The imprisoned military commander Marwan Barghouti dropped out of the Palestinian presidential race on Sunday, less than a fortnight after he threw the campaign into turmoil by breaking with the Fatah movement and becoming an independent candidate.
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/ 13 December 2004
The Bush administration has been listening in on telephone conversations between the director of the international nuclear agency and Iranian diplomats with the aim of gathering evidence to remove the United Nations bureaucrat from his post, it was reported on Sunday.
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/ 13 December 2004
Around the globe, engineers are working to produce the green car of the future. We take a look at some of the energy sources that may revolutionise the vehicles of tomorrow.