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/ 24 November 2005
South Africa’s October 2005 producer price index (PPI) rose by 4,2% year-on-year from a 4,6% increase in September, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday. The October PPI is "well below market expectations", said George Glynos, market analyst at Econometrix Treasury Management.
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/ 24 November 2005
The Netherlands will soon be only the third country, alongside the United States and Britain, to possess Tomahawk cruise missiles, after it became clear last week that there is a majority in Parliament backing their purchase. Minister of Defence Henk Kamp has moved steadily towards his goal of acquiring 30 Tomahawks from US company Raytheon.
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/ 24 November 2005
Bush Bucks coach Clive Barker should be asking himself the million-dollar question of what to do for his team to score goals after a goalless draw with Santos in a Premier Soccer League match in East London on Wednesday. Tembisa Classic shared the spoils with Moroka Swallows in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday afternoon.
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/ 24 November 2005
The All Blacks are heavily favoured to beat Scotland on Saturday in their rugby tour finale and complete a grand slam 27 years after their only previous sweep through the British Isles. ”The grand slam’s only been achieved once before, and when we get to this stage we need to finish the job,” said New Zealand coach Graham Henry.
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/ 24 November 2005
The Bafana Bafana slide continues unabated — with the Fifa rankings announced on Wednesday plummeting South Africa still further to 48th position in the world and eighth on the African continent. The previous Fifa rankings in October had Bafana 46th in the world and seventh in Africa.
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/ 24 November 2005
Call it Zuluwood. In a bid to expand audiences for south Indian movies, the Tamil film Priyasakhi is being dubbed into Zulu, a language spoken by nearly nine million people in South Africa. Priyasakhi is a story of love, separation and reunion between a rich girl and a middle-class boy.
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/ 24 November 2005
An 80km-long slick of highly toxic benzene flowed along the icy Songhua river into one of China’s biggest cities on Thursday, contaminating water supplies for up to four million people. The carcinogenic chemical reached the outskirts of Harbin at about 5am on Thursday, authorities said.
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/ 24 November 2005
As Zimbabweans go to the ballot on Saturday to elect members to a new and controversial Upper House of Parliament, the buzz is not about the polls but rather on chronic food shortages and the economic meltdown. The country’s major labour movement said the Senate is a waste of scarce money.
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/ 24 November 2005
A teenage boy who has been meditating under a tree in the verdant forests of southern Nepal is attracting thousands of pilgrims who are convinced the youth is another Buddha. Devotees flock daily to catch sight of Ram Bahadur Banjan, who sits cross-legged and silent with his eyes shut beneath a tree.
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/ 24 November 2005
As Americans sit down to eat 40-million turkeys for Thursday’s Thanksgiving holiday, and President George Bush recovers from the annual Turkey Ceremony in Washington, there are signs that the fowl are biting back. A rash of wild-turkey attacks on humans has been reported around the country.