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/ 28 December 2005
All Black great Jonah Lomu scored his first try for Cardiff as they crushed Welsh rivals Newport-Gwent Dragons 41-23 in their Celtic League clash at the Arms Park on Tuesday. The giant New Zealand wing crossed the Dragons’ line in the first minute of the second-half, scoring in his third appearance for the Welsh capital side.
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/ 28 December 2005
Ground troops and a helicopter gunship attacked a group of at least 35 rebel fighters in northern Uganda, killing 20 insurgents, an army spokesperson said on Wednesday. Three other rebels were captured and the rest fled into the bush following the Tuesday evening attack, said Lieutenant Chris Magezi.
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/ 28 December 2005
As storylines go, it seemed destined to offend. The Ringer, a film by the Farrelly brothers, is about a man who pretends to have learning difficulties so that he can compete in the Special Olympics. With its liberal use of the word ”retarded” and the affectation of disability by an able-bodied man for laughs, it is hardly surprising that studios balked at making it.
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/ 28 December 2005
Under-fire all-rounder Andrew Symonds gave Australia a decisive edge over South Africa with three wickets on the third day of the second cricket Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Wednesday. Symonds, whose position in the team is under threat after a poor run of scores, hit back with a 16-ball spell of 3-7 with his medium-pacers to have the Proteas trailing by 44 runs in the first innings.
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/ 28 December 2005
Bus subsidies cost the national Transport Department R2,17-billion in 2003/04, according to the department’s annual report for 2005. The report, tabled in Parliament, noted that Gauteng received the largest cut of the nine provinces — with R788-million — followed by KwaZulu-Natal with R452-million. The Western Cape received R380-million.
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/ 28 December 2005
The killing of Malaysian bomb maker Azahari Husin by Indonesian police may spark revenge attacks against the country’s president, Indonesia’s spy chief warned on Wednesday. Syamsir Siregar said that before his death, Azahari, and his compatriot Noordin Mohammad Top — who is still at large — had recruited an unspecified number of trained militants.
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/ 28 December 2005
Philippine prosecutors on Tuesday charged four American marines and their local driver with raping a Filipina after an evening drinking in a nightclub near the United States’s former Subic Bay navy base. The marines, who were on leave at the end of joint exercises with their Philippine counterparts at the time, met the woman in the nightclub, the charges state.
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/ 28 December 2005
A thorough forensic audit was needed to investigate signs that fraud could have led to the massive fuel shortages of the past few weeks, media reports said on Wednesday. The president of the SA Institute for Corporate Fraud Management, Bart Henderson, said on Tuesday they had already called for the Scorpions to investigate the matter, and the request was apparently under serious consideration.
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/ 28 December 2005
Israeli warplanes early on Wednesday staged a raid on a Palestinian base in the southern outskirts of Beirut, a military spokesperson said. "This raid is a riposte to the rocket attack against the north of Israel," he declared. "We consider this kind of attack serious." Seven Katyusha rockets were fired at north Israel from southern Lebanon overnight on Wednesday, Lebanese police said.
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/ 27 December 2005
A man briefly appeared in the Plettenberg Bay Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday in connection with the murder of a six-year-old Johannesburg boy in the coastal resort town. Inspector Elgin Antonie earlier said the man on Christmas Day confessed to the killing. He was arrested on Christmas Eve.