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/ 10 November 2006
The cost of bringing up children is rising even faster than house prices, with education going up over a quarter in the past year, according to a survey on Friday. The cost of kids has soared 28% in the past four years and 9% in the last year alone — outstripping an 8% rise in United Kingdom property prices.
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/ 10 November 2006
Tshwane municipal manager Blake Mosley-Lefatola has resigned, media reports said on Friday. Mosley-Lefatola has handed his letter of resignation to Tshwane mayor Gwen Ramokgopa who had not yet responded. Mosley-Lefatola said: ”We had a good working relationship. There were differences in dealing with issues.”
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/ 10 November 2006
Searching the worldwide web with engines such as Google may also help doctors to diagnose perplexing medical conditions, Australian researchers said on Friday.
”Our study suggests that in difficult cases, it is often useful to google for a diagnosis,” said Hangwi Tang, of the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane.
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/ 10 November 2006
The Israeli artillery fire that claimed 18 civilian lives in Beit Hanoun this week is the worst single attack in Gaza for six years. Whether it will prompt an end to Hamas’s moratorium on suicide bombings hangs in the balance, but the attack — said by Israeli officials to be an error — has clearly put Israel on the moral defensive.
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/ 10 November 2006
The World Bank has highlighted infrastructure investment, improving the investment climate, harnessing skills for innovation and building institutional capacity as critical areas demanding action in sub-Saharan Africa. The World Bank says success on these four fronts will help the region and Africa as a whole make up for missing two decades of global growth.
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/ 10 November 2006
Thousands of Palestinians crowded the streets of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza on Thursday, some firing guns into the air, as they buried 18 members of a single family who died in an Israeli artillery strike. As ambulances brought the dead from hospital morgues into the town, one distraught man carried in the air the body of a small child wrapped in white cloth.
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/ 10 November 2006
For a man paid less than 726 a month, the six-and-a-half hectares of mansion, designer golf course and sprawling gardens speckled with fountains in Malibu was quite a buy. The views of the ocean alone — never mind the 4 500 square metres mansion with eight bathrooms, a pool and tennis courts — probably accounted for a good chunk of the -million asking price.
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/ 10 November 2006
Two years ago Jake White’s Springboks arrived in Dublin as the holders of the Tri-Nations Trophy. They were in the second week of the so-called ”Grand Slam Tour” having narrowly beaten Wales at the Millennium stadium a week previously. The result may have favoured the Boks more had White not believed the stadium clock that read two minutes to go.
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/ 10 November 2006
Monday morning, and the world shines anew. Grown men skip down the street, pensioners raise their walking sticks in solidarity, babies gurgle contentedly, unseasonal birds tweet the Internationale. ”Lovely day!” says the man selling tickets at the Tube station. I don’t think I’ve seen him smile before.
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/ 10 November 2006
For months the South African Football Association (Safa) has been talking about a ”turn-around strategy for Bafana Bafana” and a ”2010 vision”. Wednesday’s Nelson Mandela Inauguration match against Egypt in London is the last time the national team will get together this year and Safa’s two concepts are in danger of being exposed as semantic posturing.