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/ 24 February 2005
New York police were forced to intervene when a ”sneaker riot” broke out in Manhattan on Tuesday, with shoppers queueing to buy limited-edition Nike Pigeon Dunk skateboarding trainers. Despite the presence of a bouncer, fighting broke out when people tried to barge ahead of those who had camped out for up to 48 hours.
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/ 24 February 2005
A teacher has apologised for letters sent by his sixth-grade students to an American soldier, accusing the United States military of killing civilians and destroying Iraqi mosques in a futile war on terror. Alex Kunhardt sent the letters to Private Rob Jacobs for a social studies assignment.
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/ 24 February 2005
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Five percent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in South Africa is ”doable” in 2005, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said in a post Budget briefing on Thursday. In his Budget speech on Wednesday, Manuel forecast 4,3% growth in GDP, which he said was in line with the consensus of economists, compared with last year’s 3,7%.
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/ 24 February 2005
Spying hasn’t worked, and neither has shooting. So the United States has turned to its great cultural weapon to flush out Osama bin Laden — television. After a fruitless three-year hunt, the US is funding advertisements on Pakistani television which it hopes will touch the hearts of those close to the elusive al-Qaeda leader.
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/ 24 February 2005
The fight against HIV/Aids is being hampered by a massive shortage of condoms — only about one-tenth of the 10,8-billion needed were available in developing countries in 2003 and there seems little chance of meeting a target of 18,6-billion by 2015.
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/ 24 February 2005
MPs from Kenya’s ruling party on Wednesday announced that they would push for a vote of no confidence in the president, a critical test of the government, which is under concerted pressure from western powers over its failure to fight corruption. Despite being elected on an anti-graft platform in 2003, the administration has been engulfed by allegations of sleaze.
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/ 24 February 2005
Watching and listening to Bush in Brussels this week it was impossible not to see that this is a very different politician from the one who was taped by Doug Wead as he weighed his first run for the White House in the late 1990s. ”It’s me versus the world,” the then Texas governor told Wead. ”The good news is, the world is on my side. Or more than half of it anyway.”
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/ 24 February 2005
The United States President, George Bush, and Germany’s Chancellor Gerhard Schröder on Wednesday put an end to an era of bitterness over Iraq when they pledged to work together on a range of international issues including climate change and Iran.
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/ 24 February 2005
It is easy to be blasé about the Budget and label it ”boring” — but we shouldn’t. Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel has once again announced major increases in spending, symbolically important tax cuts and a reduced budget deficit — the headline measure of sound fiscal management.
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/ 23 February 2005
Some investigative reports are excellent, and have made a major contribution to the cause of holding public officials accountable. Others range from the so-so to the completely dodgy. To help tell one from the other, here is a readers’ guide to the good, the bad and the ugly of investigative journalism.