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/ 16 February 2005
Tiger Woods could reclaim the world number one golf ranking from Fiji’s Vijay singh in Los Angeles this week by finishing in the top four at the PGA Nissan Open. Woods spent a record 334 weeks atop the rankings, including 264 in a row, before being dethroned last September by Singh’s victory at Boston.
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/ 16 February 2005
Belgium’s former world tennis number one Kim Clijsters made a victorious return to the WTA circuit after nearly four months away in Belgium on Tuesday as she downed Croatian Jelena Kostanic 6-2, 6-3 in the 000 tournament. The 21-year-old had been forced to take a rest with a serious wrist injury back in October.
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/ 16 February 2005
Brian Pottinger, CEO of Johnnic Communications (Africa), takes a strong interest in the video CDs sold on the streets of Lagos. As well he should, being head of the South African media company’s foray into other parts of Africa. "Just two days after the international release of <i>The Passion of the Christ</i>, the street vendors in Lagos were selling pirate copies," says Pottinger.
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/ 16 February 2005
South Korea told United States officials it has no plans to launch ”large-scale” economic cooperation with North Korea before the dispute over the communist state’s nuclear weapons programme is resolved, the country’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.
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/ 16 February 2005
Black economic empowerment (BEE) group Izingwe Capital, which has investments in mining beneficiation, financial services and power and engineering will acquire a 25% stake in Peters Papers, the merchant division of listed packaging group Nampak.
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/ 16 February 2005
Benedict Vilakazi has been suspended as Orlando Pirates’ captain after he appeared on a rape charge in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s court on Tuesday, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported. The Bafana Bafana player was granted bail of R10 000.
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/ 16 February 2005
A new strain of HIV — resistant to three of the four classes of antiretroviral drugs available — has been identified in New York, say officials.
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/ 16 February 2005
Cameroon striker Samuel Eto’o was named African footballer of the year for the second consecutive time on Tuesday. The announcement in Durban came as no surprise after Eto’o told teammates of his impending triumph after a friendly match against Senegal in France last week and several journalists overheard the conversation.
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/ 16 February 2005
The Kyoto Protocol, the world’s most far-reaching environmental treaty, took effect on Wednesday at 5am GMT with 34 industrialised countries legally bound to slash pollution causing global warming. The treaty requires industrial countries as a whole to cut carbon-dioxide gas emissions by 5,2% before 2012.
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/ 16 February 2005
Art historians had always detected the style of Leonardo da Vinci in the mysterious painting Adoration of the Christ Child, which is regarded as a gem of the Renaissance. But there was never any proof. Now a fingerprint discovered in the original paint may finally solve the puzzle.