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/ 14 December 2006
Christmas starts early for the world’s favourite elder statesman, Nelson Mandela. Staff members of the flagship Nelson Mandela Foundation are busy listing and storing the latest batch of goodies flooding in since last month. ”The range of gifts is truly awesome,” said Verne Harris, the project manager of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.
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/ 14 December 2006
The ”real” Father Christmas is laughing ”ho-ho-ho” again in Greenland after two Danish dads saved him from financial ruin — and thousands of children around the world from getting no answer to Christmas letters. In November, ”Santa” found himself penniless, unable to answer the piles of small missives that pour in each year.
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/ 14 December 2006
Oh, what a difference a little bit of hard work makes. Premier Soccer League (PSL) champions Mamelodi Sundowns, shedding their recent staid and costly work rate, produced a vintage display and roasted Benoni Premier United, the team known as the Rabbits, in a 5-2 drubbing at the Super Stadium on Wednesday night.
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/ 14 December 2006
Feyenoord and Paris Saint-Germain — two clubs whose last Uefa Cup matches were marred by violence — reached the round of 32 in Europe’s second-tier competition on Wednesday, and were joined by Ajax, Hapoel Tel Aviv, Celta Vigo and Fenerbahce.
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/ 14 December 2006
Links golf is the purest form of the game, and the Humewood links has captured the imaginations of Ernie Els, Retief Goosen and Trevor Immelman ahead of this week’s South African Airways (SAA) Open. They are the three biggest names in the field for an event that features on the European Tour’s schedule.
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/ 14 December 2006
Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian Prime Minister, cut short his first official trip abroad on Wednesday to return to Gaza after gunmen shot dead a senior Hamas militant on the street in the latest round of an escalating factional crisis. Haniyeh, who leads the Hamas government in the Palestinian territories, dismissed concerns of an imminent civil war.
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/ 14 December 2006
The life and death of a young street performer from Pakistan who could walk on hot coals and drive knives through his arms without flinching has led scientists to a genetic discovery that could revolutionise the treatment of pain. Scientists began studying the child to understand why he was unable to feel pain.
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/ 14 December 2006
Paparazzi-hating Hollywood stars have nothing on a young Indonesian tiger that destroyed three camera traps during a 10-day rampage through the jungle of Sumatra. In each case, the film inside was spared and revealed that the same culprit was responsible for all three incidents, said conservation group the WWF.
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/ 14 December 2006
Circumcision can halve the risk of a man picking up the HIV infection that leads to Aids, scientists in the United States said on Wednesday night. Two major trials, in Kenya and Uganda, have confirmed what doctors and campaigners have suspected and hoped for several years.
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/ 14 December 2006
A young woman accused of witchcraft was burned alive in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Wednesday, while in another town two men were burned for suspected rape, a radio station reported. The woman was stoned and then burned in Bugara, a neighbourhood in the eastern town of Rutshuru, the report said.