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/ 24 January 2006
Halliburton, the vast Texan oil and military services corporation, was accused by former employees on Monday of supplying contaminated water to American troops and Iraqi civilians at a marine base in Ramadi. The claims by former employees was backed up by internal Halliburton e-mails relating to the untreated water and the health problems it had caused in Camp Junction City.
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/ 24 January 2006
Eighth-seeded Justine Henin-Hardenne upset number one Lindsay Davenport 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 on Tuesday to advance to the Australian Open semifinals. The loss may cost Davenport, who lost the final here last year to Serena Williams, the top ranking that she has held since October 24.
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/ 24 January 2006
Eight people were killed in a double bomb attack on Tuesday in the restive southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, where a scheduled visit by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been cancelled at the last minute. The media said a first bomb in Ahvaz exploded in front of a privately-run bank and a second in front of a government office for natural resources.
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/ 24 January 2006
Sri Lanka’s president on Tuesday asked Norway to arrange early talks with Tamil Tiger rebels and help stem the latest wave of violence that has killed at least 151 people. President Mahinda Rajapakse held closed-door talks with Norway’s top peace envoy, Erik Solheim, on salvaging the island’s Oslo-backed peace process, which has remained deadlocked since April 2003.
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/ 24 January 2006
A tremor of a magnitude of 3,6 on the Richter scale was recorded in the East Rand, 8km north-west of Germiston, on Tuesday at 11.13am, said Ian Saunders, project leader for the South African National Seismograph Network at the Council for Geoscience in Pretoria. The tremor was felt in many parts of Johannesburg.
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/ 24 January 2006
The spat between the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) over the Oilgate scandal grew on Tuesday with the DA accusing the NPA of ”failing to do its mandated duty”. On Monday, NPA spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said the NPA had yet to receive a complaint by the DA about its handling of the scandal.
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/ 24 January 2006
Millions of United States BlackBerry users can now turn their attention back to a federal court where the fate of the popular wireless e-mail device may be decided.
After the Supreme Court chose on Monday not to intervene in the case, the resolution of the long-running battle over patents for the handheld device is up to a district judge.
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/ 24 January 2006
Bone-chilling weather claimed dozens of lives on Monday across Europe as glacial temperatures swept the Baltics to the Balkans, brought rare snowfalls to Istanbul and sparked a scramble for heating fuel. The unusually low temperatures have left well more than 100 fatalities in Germany, Poland, Russia, Turkey and the Czech Republic.
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/ 24 January 2006
MultiChoice said on Tuesday it would welcome competition after the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) announced that it would be inviting applications for a subscription broadcast licence at the end of the month. MultiChoice said it supports and adheres to the process set down by Icasa.
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/ 24 January 2006
African leaders on Tuesday named Congo as the chair of the African Union and agreed that Sudan would take over the leadership of the 53-nation body in 2007, according to a text issued at a summit in Khartoum. Sudan on Monday offered to withdraw its bid to head the AU to avoid a split among leaders of the 53-nation body.