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/ 10 December 2005
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, which control one in five parliamentary seats after spectacular gains in recent polls, says it is ready to break a long-standing taboo and engage in contacts with Washington, which welcomed the results of Egypt’s month-long parliamentary polls.
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/ 10 December 2005
Nigerian police on Friday arrested the governor of an oil-rich state who has been charged with money-laundering by a British court, officials said. Governor Diepreye Alamieyeseigha skipped bail in London last month and escaped home to Bayelsa state in southern Nigeria’s unruly Niger Delta, where his arrival triggered a political crisis.
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/ 10 December 2005
He may have felt a little under the weather before the start of the tournament, but by the time Michiel Bothma completed his second round at the Dunhill Championship, any sense of affliction had dissipated. As second-round play got under way late on Friday, there were still 24 golfers out on the course when play was suspended.
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/ 10 December 2005
In what turned out to be a nail-biting finish, the Lions persevered on Friday to win their Standard Bank Cup match against the Warriors, which was played at the Wanderers, by two wickets. Meanwhile, the Eagles managed a win at the death against the Cobras at Goodyear Park in Bloemfontein.
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/ 10 December 2005
Sven-Goran Eriksson breathed a huge sigh of relief after the Soccer World Cup draw handed England a relatively easy first-round group and spared his squad the prospect of facing either The Netherlands or traditional sporting adversaries Australia. ”It could have been much worse,” England’s Swedish coach said.
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/ 10 December 2005
A record late rush, precipitated perhaps by defending champions Kaizer Chiefs raising their waning stocks with a 5-2 midweek win over Free State Stars, on Friday sent ticket sales sky-high and ensured an 80 000-strong sell-out crowd for the big Premier Soccer League (PSL) derby against Orlando Pirates.
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/ 10 December 2005
Injury-stricken South Africa will turn to a corporate psychologist to help them prepare for their first Test against Australia in Perth next Friday. South African coach Mickey Arthur confirmed that Johannesburg-based psychologist Francois Hugo is due to arrive in Perth on Wednesday.
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/ 10 December 2005
A man who robbed a New Zealand bank was so disappointed with his haul he tried again — this time by phone, police said on Saturday. ”He’s rung [the bank] and said, ‘I’m the guy who robbed you the other day and I want the manager to put some money in a bag and go and stand in the street,”’ said a police spokesperson.
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/ 10 December 2005
The head of the Islamist group Hamas’s political branch, Khaled Meshaal, has announced that his group will not renew its fragile truce with Israel when it expires at the end of the year. ”We will not enter a new truce while our people are surrounded and are preparing for a new round of conflict,” Meshaal told a rally on Friday.
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/ 10 December 2005
The death toll in a massive coal-mining accident in northern China rose to 90, as the country’s Cabinet ordered the establishment of a special commission to investigate, state television reported on Saturday. A mixture of airborne coal dust and colourless, methane-laden gas known as fire damp ignited to cause the blast on Wednesday.