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/ 28 October 2005
Spring was turning to summer in the Hundred Acre Wood, and a million new green leaves rustled in the warm breeze that set the carpet of flowers below dancing. Up in a sky of the purest blue the larks sang, and down in his pretty little house, with its quaint curtains and welcoming bell-pull, Piglet knelt hunched over his toilet, riding out the dry heaves.
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/ 28 October 2005
The Argentine football legend Diego Maradona looks set to crown his new career as a television interviewer by landing a rare, exclusive interview with a man not used to being asked awkward questions — Fidel Castro. Maradona, whose successful television work comes with a newly slimmed-down look achieved with the help of Cuban doctors, was on Thursday reported to have landed in Havana with a film crew ready for the interview.
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/ 28 October 2005
Almost half a century since the team last graced the World Series, the Chicago White Sox won baseball’s October ritual with a 4-0 sweep of the Houston Astros in the best-of-seven contest. It began on Sunday with a home run from their third batter up, Jermaine Dye, that led to a 4-3 victory in Game One in Chicago and ended when the same player hit a run-scoring single for a 1-0 victory in Game Four in Houston on Wednesday.
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/ 28 October 2005
It is worth noting that this season’s first Soweto derby takes place at a time when Liberia is likely to confirm one of the continent’s greatest footballing talents, George Weah, as its next president. The derby, in case there are those who don’t know, features log leaders Orlando Pirates against defending league champions Kaizer Chiefs at the FNB stadium on Saturday.
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/ 28 October 2005
The Railway Safety Regulator (RSR) has appointed a eight technical experts to probe the crash between the Blue Train and the Shosholoza Meyl in the Northern Cape on Wednesday night. Herman Bruwer, the regulatory body’s general manager for safety assurance, said on Friday the RSR was finalising the terms of reference of an independent board of inquiry.
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/ 28 October 2005
The road from New Orleans to Chicago has been a long one for bartenders Webb Rhodes and Fritz Voght. Two months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their city and destroyed their way of life, the longtime friends are still scrambling to find work and a place to live. It hasn’t been easy.
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/ 28 October 2005
Nama-speaking tribes in Namibia will flock to a tiny village this weekend to pay tribute a famous chief who raised the banner of revolt against German colonial forces but was killed in battle a century ago. Tribal members will descend on Gibeon, a small town about 360km south of Windhoek, to commemorate Hendrik Witbooi, who perished on 29 October 1905 while fighting the German army.
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/ 28 October 2005
Gerard Houllier’s Lyon will be looking to get back to winning ways at Sochaux on Saturday after suffering their first defeat of the season as they exited the French League Cup. The loss to Nantes 4-3 on penalties after the match finished 1-1 after extra time ended Houllier’s dream of the four-time French champions ”winning everything” this season.
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/ 28 October 2005
Israel is to reopen an embassy in New Zealand, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Friday, signalling a further warming in once chilly relations between the two. The relationship took a frosty turn after two suspected Israeli spies were arrested in March 2004 and charged with trying to fraudulently obtain New Zealand passports.
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/ 28 October 2005
<i>The Tibetan Book of the Dead</i> is a kind of Baedeker for the afterlife and, like the best guidebooks, its reassuring refrain is "Don’t panic!", writes Ian Pindar.