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/ 17 November 2006
Flash floods caused by heavy rains have killed nearly 50 people in western Afghanistan, with 60 more missing, the Afghan Health Ministry said on Friday. Afghanistan, especially the west and south, has been in the grip of drought but heavy rains started falling in several areas in the past week.
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/ 17 November 2006
A tornado flipped cars, shredded trees and ripped mobile homes to pieces in the little riverside community of Riegelwood, North Carolina, early on Thursday, killing at least eight people, authorities said. The disaster brought the two-day death toll from a devastating line of thunderstorms that swept across the United States South to 12.
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/ 17 November 2006
A fortnight ago, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched its Human Development Report 2006 in Cape Town — a diabolically appropriate choice. South Africa is apparently considered the UNDP’s ideal setting — and maybe deservedly so — for what might be called ”talk left” policies accompanied by ”turn right” practices: turning the tap off, that is to say.
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/ 17 November 2006
<b>COMEDY OF THE YEAR:</b> Much of the humour in Borat is anti-Semitic, which is to say a vicious parody of unthinkingly vicious anti-Semitism, writes Shaun de Waal.
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/ 17 November 2006
Chad announced plans on Friday to send troops to help its southern neighbour Central African Republic and confront what it said was a widening regional war waged by Sudan from its violent Darfur region. The announcement signalled an escalation of the Darfur conflict, which has increasingly been spilling over Sudan’s western borders into Chad and the Central African Republic.
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/ 17 November 2006
The controversy around police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi was expected to be discussed at the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee meeting in Johannesburg on Friday, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported.
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/ 17 November 2006
A grade eight pupil is to appear in the Frankfort Magistrate’s Court on Friday for allegedly stabbing a classmate, Free State police said. Following the incident on Tuesday at 8am, police arrested an 18-year-old pupil at the Reseng Thabo High School in Tweeling, said Captain Hennie Labuschagne. The victim was in the classroom together with his classmates.
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/ 17 November 2006
Tonga on Friday declared a state of emergency and reportedly prepared to ask New Zealand and Australia to send troops after eight people were killed in the Pacific kingdom’s worst riots to date. The government gave police and military sweeping powers to prevent any repeat of Thursday’s violent rampage.
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/ 17 November 2006
From Madonna’s <i>English Roses</i> to Gloria Estefan’s Noelle’s <i>Treasure Tale</i>, Ed Pilkington brings out the best and worst of celebrity books for kids.
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/ 17 November 2006
Britney, Tiger, Gandalf and Madonna will soon join the more usual Peters and Janes in Britain’s playgrounds, while Harry Potter may also drop in, according to a new survey of babies’ names. Other newly fashionable choices include Snoop, after the United States rap star, who may end up hanging out with Reebok and Adidas.