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/ 16 September 2005
Elephants and buffaloes are dying of starvation in a wildlife-rich area of western Zimbabwe, the state-controlled Herald reported on Friday. The paper said at least four elephant calves and several buffaloes have died recently in the Matetsi area near Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe’s prime tourist resort.
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/ 16 September 2005
Leaders from around the world hold a final day of meetings at the United Nations World Summit in New York on Friday, with Iran’s nuclear ambitions and condemnations of terrorism as top issues. Three European foreign ministers on Thursday talked with Iranian officials at the summit in a bid to head off a showdown.
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/ 16 September 2005
South Africa’s black economic empowerment (BEE) efforts are set to receive a boost in the form of a multimillion-dollar investment from the New York Common Retirement Fund. South African President Thabo Mbeki will be briefed later on Friday on the intention of the fund to increase its current levels of investment in South Africa to support BEE.
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/ 16 September 2005
Guy Green, who won an Academy Award for cinematography for the 1946 film Great Expectations, died of heart and kidney failure at his Beverly Hills home. He was 91. Green, who also directed more than two dozen films, lapsed into a coma about 10 hours before his death on Thursday, his wife of 57 years, Josephine Green, told The Associated Press.
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/ 16 September 2005
Meeting British Prime Minister Tony Blair at a Downing Street reception the day after his heroic innings helped win the Ashes back for England will be a highlight of cricket hero Kevin Pietersen’s career — if only he could remember it, the South African-born batsman revealed on Thursday.
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/ 16 September 2005
One of the world’s leading cannabis legalisation campaigners, a magazine publisher known as the ”Prince of Pot”, faces an extradition hearing on Friday in Vancouver as United States drugs agencies seek to put him on trial in the US. His supporters claim the move is a first step by US authorities to prosecute foreigners who challenge the US laws on cannabis.
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/ 16 September 2005
Global warming could significantly increase rainfall in Saharan Africa within a few decades, potentially ending the severe droughts that have devastated the region, a new study suggests. The discovery was made by climate experts at the Royal Meteorological Institute in De Bilt, The Netherlands, who used a computer model to predict changes in the Sahel region.
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/ 16 September 2005
He is balding, bespectacled and 31. Strangely, that that did not prevent Frédéric Bourdin spending most of last May in a children’s home in Pau, where he successfully passed himself off as a destitute orphaned teenager. A court in the southern French city heard on Thursday that Bourdin, charged with possessing and using a false identity, had convinced staff and pupils at the home and a local school that he was 15.
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/ 16 September 2005
”Up close to Ryan Giggs, perched on a sofa that seems small and lost in a vast five-star suite, it’s strangely riveting to watch the unsettling emotions ripple across his familiar billboard face.” Ryan Giggs tells Donald McRae what the Manchester United players are saying about the Chelsea juggernaut.
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/ 16 September 2005
This weekend’s SAA Supa8 final between Supersport United and Bloemfontein Celtic at Olen Park in Potchefstroom provides a glimpse of both what is right and what is pitiful about youth development in South African soccer. Saturday’s match is set to provide much more than on-the-pitch excitement for the fans.