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/ 5 December 2005
Subsidies paid to cotton producers, especially in the United States, prompted an impassioned plea for a fairer deal on trade for Africa at a weekend Franco-African summit, where President Jacques Chirac lent his voice to the campaign. ”African farmers must receive a fair reward for their work,” Chirac said here, days before a key ministerial meeting in Hong Kong on global free trade negotiations.
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/ 5 December 2005
Defence lawyers for ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein walked out of his trial on Monday in protest at the court’s refusal to let foreign lawyers speak. When the defence asked for former United States attorney general Ramsey Clark and former Qatari justice minister Naji Nuaimi to be allowed to speak, the trial’s presiding judge Rizkar Mohammed Amin refused.
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/ 5 December 2005
Jermain Taylor, who earned the middleweight world title in controversial style, kept it in more convincing fashion on Saturday with a unanimous 12-round decision over former champ Bernard Hopkins. The second fight between the two Americans had been much anticipated after Taylor ended Hopkins’s reign of more than 10 years in July with a controversial 12-round split decision.
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/ 5 December 2005
Australian researchers said on Monday they had scientifically proven a long-suspected link between emotional stress and illnesses ranging from the common cold to cancer. The group’s findings were published in Monday’s edition of the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
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/ 5 December 2005
Sri Lankan troops and police stepped up security on Monday following a spate of attacks blamed on the Tamil Tigers that killed 12 people over the weekend, a military official said. Troops in the island’s embattled northern and eastern regions as well as other parts of the island were asked to maintain a high state of alert, the official said.
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/ 5 December 2005
An Australian bank apologised on Monday to staff upset at being told how to trim nose hair and hide fat legs. The Commonwealth Bank’s ”Grooming Handbook” declared flesh-coloured knickers were in but shiny stockings were out. Rings were also acceptable, but no more than two per hand, it said.
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/ 5 December 2005
Picking their way through muddy puddles, United Nations envoy Jan Egeland and his team on Monday toured a suburb of the Zimbabwean capital Harare where thousands are living in plastic shacks after being made homeless by the government’s controversial urban clean-up campaign.
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/ 5 December 2005
The first ball of the opening Test match between India and Sri Lanka will be delivered on Monday, the fourth day of the match, as the sun came out to dry the outfield after three days of rain. Umpires Daryl Harper of Australia and Mark Benson from England inspected the ground at 9am local time and decided to take another look after an hour before determining when the match can start.
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/ 5 December 2005
Mauro Camoranesi scored the winner in the 88th minute, and defending champion Juventus beat host Fiorentina 2-1 on Sunday to widen its lead in the Serie A. France striker David Trezeguet put Juventus in the lead in the eighth minute, kicking in a low cross from Zlatan Ibrahimovic for his 11th goal this season.
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/ 5 December 2005
Juan Manuel Pena scored an own-goal in the first half and deflected Deco’s strike after the interval on Sunday to help FC Barcelona beat Villarreal 2-0 in the Spanish league. The win at Villarreal was Barcelona’s seventh straight in the league and ninth overall.