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/ 16 October 2006
Heavily armed militiamen surrounded the home of the commander of Somalia’s police force on Monday, officials said, underscoring the tenuous authority of the country’s transitional government. The move on the house of General Ali Hussein Loyan by a local commander in the government’s temporary seat of Baidoa follows a deadly September gun battle between the police and the militia.
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/ 16 October 2006
Human rights groups want Malawi’s courts to review a ruling allowing Madonna to adopt a child from Malawi, an impoverished, Aids-stricken Southern African country, according to one of dozens of organisations involved. Boniface Mandere of Eye of the Child, a local child protection society, told the media on Monday a coalition had banded together.
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/ 16 October 2006
The PetroSA plant outside Mossel Bay was calm on Monday morning after it was hit by a strike last week, Southern Cape police spokesperson Captain Malcolm Pojie said. He said police had set up a joint operations centre along with the parastatal at the plant, which has been shut down for annual cleaning and maintenance, to monitor the situation.
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/ 16 October 2006
At least 67 people, including Sri Lankan navy sailors and some civilians, were killed when an explosives-laden truck driven by a suspected Tamil Tiger rebel rammed into their convoy on Monday. The attack near the town of Habarana, about 190km north-east of the capital Colombo was one of the worst suicide bombings in the troubled Indian Ocean island.
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/ 16 October 2006
Petr Cech’s surgery for a depressed fracture of the skull has thrown Chelsea’s preparations for Wednesday’s match against Barcelona into disarray, particularly as number two keeper Carlo Cudicini was also knocked out at the weekend. Cech was recovering well following the collision with Stephen Hunt at Reading’s Madejski Stadium on Saturday.
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/ 16 October 2006
South Africa’s Retief Goosen retained his Volkswagen Masters-China title by three strokes on Sunday, the first successful title defence of his career. The world number seven shot a one-under-par 71 to finish the week with an impressive 21-under-par 267 total at the Yalong Bay Golf Club. The win was his first of 2006 and the 26th of his career, earning him  550.
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/ 16 October 2006
Bloemfontein Celtic maintained their unbeaten home record when they beat Ajax Cape Town 2-1 in a Premier Soccer League game in front of a capacity crowd at the Seisa Ramabodu Stadium on Sunday afternoon. Celtic lead 2-0 at the break. From the start, Celtic players were merciless as striker Thapelo Liau scored as early as the fourth minute.
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/ 16 October 2006
A senior Zimbabwean judge has rapped local courts for inefficiency after he found 10 suspects languishing for up to nine years in jail while awaiting trial or sentencing, a state-run daily said on Monday. ”This is quite embarrassing and disturbing,” Justice Makarau was quoted as saying by the Herald.
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/ 16 October 2006
South Korea is planning to send kimchi into space in a giant leap for its much-loved national dish, Yonhap news agency reported Monday. A state-run food research body is pushing ahead with a plan to develop traditional foods like kimchi, the chili paste "gochujang" and ginseng so that they can be eaten in space, Yonhap said.
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/ 16 October 2006
All that was in tune for Moroka Swallows during their late 2-1 Premier League defeat against Jomo Cosmos at Germiston Stadium on Sunday afternoon was the club’s brass band. While the Birds only seemed to play with urgency and purpose while trailing, the young ensemble in the stand kept up an incessant musical rapport throughout the 90 minutes — but to no avail.