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/ 2 December 2006
A man has been arrested for allegedly stealing a R2,5-million Pierneef painting from the South African Broadcasting Corporation’s offices, Beeld reported on Saturday. The man, a 43-year-old Mellville restaurant waiter, was arrested at his home in Vrededorp, Johannesburg, on Friday.
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/ 2 December 2006
Juventus moved into a tie for first place in Serie B after drawing with Genoa 1-1 on Friday. Pavel Nedved put Juventus ahead in the 71st minute and Ivan Juric equalised for Genoa three minutes later. Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon saved a penalty kick in the 31st.
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/ 2 December 2006
Zambia’s former president Frederick Chiluba arrived in South Africa on Friday for medical treatment after a court overturned a decision by President Levy Mwanawasa to block Chiluba’s wife from travelling with him. Chiluba briefly spoke to journalists before leaving Lusaka airport, where an intelligence source said he held a 20-minute closed-door meeting with a Libyan diplomat.
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/ 2 December 2006
Paul Collingwood became the first Englishman to score a Test double-century in Australia in 70 years on a record-breaking day for England in the second Ashes Test at Adelaide Oval on Saturday. Collingwood and Kevin Pietersen shared in England’s highest fourth-wicket partnership in Ashes Tests as they pushed the tourists towards an unbeatable target on a benign pitch.
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/ 2 December 2006
The unknown assassin who killed Alexander Litvinenko, the former Russian spy, appeared on Friday night to have claimed a second victim after tests revealed that one of the dead man’s associates had been poisoned with the same radioactive isotope, polonium-210.
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/ 2 December 2006
England’s slow and cautious batting game plan invokes memories of the attritional era of the 1960s Ashes cricket as they try to set a platform to level the series, Australian media said on Saturday. England, one-nil down in the series, went to stumps on Friday’s opening day at 266 for three with Paul Collingwood poised for a century on 98 and Kevin Pietersen not out 60.
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/ 2 December 2006
Christ is missing from Christmas in this small town. The community’s holiday display has a manger with shepherds, a guiding star, camels and a palm tree, but no baby Jesus, Mary or Joseph. The parks superintendent said Jesus was left out because of concerns about the separation of church and state.
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/ 2 December 2006
The United States Supreme Court stepped into a dispute over free speech rights on Friday involving a suspended high school student and his banner that proclaimed ”Bong Hits 4 Jesus”. Justices agreed to hear the appeal by the Juneau, Alaska, school board and principal Deborah Morse of a lower court ruling that allowed the student’s civil rights lawsuit to proceed.
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/ 2 December 2006
The chief’s story is dark and familiar. Attackers on horseback shattering his dawn ritual of tea brewing — shouting racial venom, killing men, raping women. The survivors fleeing to a makeshift camp, sheltering from the desert sun under lengths of cloth strung from thorn trees.
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/ 2 December 2006
Distraught survivors searched piles of bodies for the faces of their loved ones in the central Philippines on Saturday after landslides triggered by Typhoon Durian left hundreds dead. Driving rain and winds of up to 225kph dislodged tonnes of mud and boulders from the slopes of Mount Mayon, an active volcano about 320km south of Manila.