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/ 12 September 2004
South Africa ended a run of 10 straight one-day international defeats with a nine-wicket win against Bangladesh in their ICC Champions Trophy Pool B opener at Edgbaston on Sunday. Victory was all but assured for the Proteas after they bowled out the Asian minnows for 93 in under 32 overs following the decision of Bangladesh’s 20-year-old stand-in captain Rajin Saleh, replacing the injured Habibul Bashar, to bat first after winning the toss.
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/ 12 September 2004
Celtic lost to Mamelodi Sundowns 2-1 in a Castle Premiership encounter played at a packed Seisa Ramabodu Stadium in Bloemfontein on Sunday afternoon. The visitors led 1-0 at the interval thanks to a goal by Ezrom Nyandoro in the 23rd minute.
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/ 11 September 2004
With 50 days left in his presidential campaign and nearly 10 points behind in the polls, John Kerry found himself this week in a familiar situation: surrounded by people willing him on, but who were having trouble understanding what he had to say.
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/ 11 September 2004
Police in the Indian capital Delhi said they have uncovered a racket involving 50 illegal kidney transplants, reports said on Saturday. The scam was revealed when a 24-year-old construction worker went to police alleging his kidney had been removed without his knowledge. It had been transplanted and given to a soldier’s wife in the main military hospital in Delhi, the Indian Express newspaper reported.
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/ 11 September 2004
The search for Cape Town’s missing hippo was set to take to the air late on Saturday morning as nature conservation officials prepared to board a helicopter to view Zeekoevlei where the animal is hiding. Game capture expert Douw Grobler has been flown in from the Limpopo province to assist with the recapture of the animal.
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/ 11 September 2004
Insurgents launched two separate rocket attacks in the Baghdad region on Saturday, but caused no damage or injuries, the military said. The first rocket landed in central Baghdad at 6:30am. An hour later, insurgents attacked a multinational forces base just north of the capital. – Sapa-AP
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/ 11 September 2004
The Jamaican prime minister, PJ Patterson, declared a state of emergency and pleaded with half a million people living in vulnerable areas to leave their homes as Hurricane Ivan raced towards the island on Friday night. ”Residents living near coastal areas must evacuate before it’s too late,” Patterson said in an address to the nation.
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/ 11 September 2004
Two years after Zimbabwean troops returned from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Zimbabwe’s public remains largely unaware of the activities of the mission. The government has kept a tight lid on information about the controversial deployment, which was allegedly carried out to prevent Congolese President Laurent Kabila from being ousted by rebels.
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/ 11 September 2004
Former president Nelson Mandela has complained about South Africans who want to quickly amass wealth instead of helping others develop. It was at the level of ”what we once referred to as the RDP of the soul” that the nation seemed to ”crucially fallen behind” since the attainment of democracy, he said on Friday.
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/ 11 September 2004
Wage negotiations between workers at Botswana’s four diamond mines and mining company Debswana deadlocked on Friday evening after 12 hours of discussion. ”It looks as if we talk again on Monday,” said Donald Lobotse, the secretary-general of the Botswana Mining Workers Union.