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/ 28 November 2005
Forty miners were killed and another 115 were listed as missing after an explosion at a coal mine in China’s northeast Heilongjiang province, the government said on Monday. A total of 220 miners were underground when the accident at the Dongfeng coal mine occurred at 9.40pm on Sunday, with 65 miners so far rescued, the State Administration for Coal Mine Safety said on its website.
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/ 27 November 2005
Nine people were killed and scores more injured on Sunday when a powerful earthquake measuring close to six on the Richter scale struck an island off Iran’s southern coast, officials said. Five villages were damaged when the quake hit Qeshm island at 1.53pm local time and was felt for more than 10 seconds.
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/ 27 November 2005
Cape Town International airport was reopened to incoming flights on Sunday evening after the repair of a damaged runway. The runway was closed shortly before noon for emergency repairs, following the discovery of a ”pavement surface defect”. A spokesperson said the runway was opened at 5pm.
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/ 27 November 2005
Gopal Vinayak Godse, the last surviving conspirator in the assassination of Indian independence leader and pacifist icon Mohandas Gandhi, has died at age 86, media reports said. Godse died at his home in the city of Pune late on Saturday, the Press Trust of India news agency quoted his son, Nana Godse, as saying.
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/ 27 November 2005
The government is looking for skilled white South Africans at home and abroad to help implement its accelerated growth plan, the Sunday Times reported on Sunday. Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told the newspaper that the government has ”messed up” communicating its affirmative-action policy.
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/ 27 November 2005
Playing like a bunch of languid, over-fed fat cats, the expensively assembled Sundowns team were given a runaround by Orlando Pirates in the top-of-the-log Premier Soccer League game at Ellis Park on Saturday afternoon. Pirates squandered more than six gilt-edged scoring opportunities.
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/ 27 November 2005
England clinched the netball Spar Challenge series with a convincing 65-40 victory in the second Test at the Bellville Velodrome on Saturday evening. As in the first Test on Wednesday, South Africa scored the first goal, but England replied immediately with three quick goals and retained the lead for the rest of the match.
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/ 27 November 2005
Chelsea kept winning in the Premier League, beating Portsmouth 2-0 on Saturday for an 11-point edge over second-place Arsenal. Arsenal moved into second place with a 3-0 victory at Highbury behind goals from Francesc Fabregas, Thierry Henry and Robin van Persie.
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/ 27 November 2005
New Zealand capped a stellar year by beating Scotland 29-10 on Saturday to secure a grand slam of the four British Isles teams. The All Blacks’ clean sweep of England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland on a single tour was only their second in a century. The last was in 1978. Also on Saturday, England scored five tries to nil in beating Samoa 40-3 in a match marred by a late brawl.
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/ 27 November 2005
Wales beat Australia for the first time since 1987 with a 24-22 victory in a rugby union international on Saturday. Missing five British and Irish Lions in Gavin Henson, Gethin Jenkins, Dwayne Peel, Ryan Jones and Tom Shanklin, Wales dominated possession through their forwards’ scrummaging and mauling advantage.