CHRISTOPHER MICHAUD, New York | Friday THE developer who led the group that bought a 99-year lease of the trade center said he was determined to help rebuild the complex, as well as 7 World Trade Center, a neighboring building that also collapsed, the Wall Street Journal said in its online edition on Friday. “It […]

Kabul | Friday AS US strikes against Afghanistan appear more and more likely, the whereabouts of terror suspect Osama bin Laden remain a closely guarded secret. Rumours are rife that he has been on the move since Tuesday’s horrific terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, but no one outside his inner circle of close […]

Nicholas Guyatt predicted the attack The American military has overwhelmed its opponents abroad and an increasing reliance on air power and guided missiles has mini-mised disruption or even awareness of these conflicts at home. Given the increasing pace of technological change, however, it is hard to believe that the United States will continue to go […]

comment Seumas Milne Nearly two days after the horrific suicide attacks on civilian workers in New York and Washington, it has become clear that most Americans simply don’t get it. From the president to passers-by on the streets, the message seems to be the same: this is an inexplicable assault on freedom and democracy that […]

Despite a $5-million reward for information leading to his capture and high-tech tracking, Osama bin Laden has proved elusive Rory McCarthy and Ewen MacAskill The United States has spy satellites over the Indian Ocean capable of providing pictures from Afghanistan so detailed that they can identify cigarette butts. But, for all its technology, the US […]

Barry Streek meets the man in charge of changing the face of the fishing industry Horst Kleinschmidt, the head of South Africa’s Marine Coastal Management, faces a difficult challenge: he has the final say over which of the 6 000 to 9 000 applicants will be awarded the 1 200 valuable fishing quotas. Kleinschmidt is […]

SOCCER Ntuthuko Maphumulo Africa’s contingent for next year’s World Cup in Korea and Japan has already been decided with South Africa, Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon and Tunisia to represent the continent but most other regions are still fighting it out to decide who will attend the showpiece. Europe and South America, the only two continents to […]

comment Hugo Young At its founding the United States never wanted to run the world. George Washington decreed that commerce not politics was what mattered, and Thomas Jefferson warned against the danger of “entangling alliances”. The treachery and slaughter endemic to the great powers, France and Britain, in their seven years’ war for European and […]

channel vision Robert Kirby Unwittingly, last week’s Special Assignment produced a true classic: a documentary about the mysterious deaths, some months ago, of jackass penguins and a brace of pelicans at the East London aquarium. Headlined The Penguin Murders, I thought I’d strayed into some absurdist private-eye series. How do you even start to take […]

The former judge blunders on as he always has Comment Richard Calland Pricking the political mythology of contemporary South Africa is a precarious but nonetheless necessary pursuit. Take former Judge Willem Heath. Having conducted a persistent though ultimately self-corroding campaign to depict himself as the corruption-busting saviour of the new South Africa in the public […]