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/ 23 January 2006
Charlton Athletic became the first side this season to take points off Chelsea at Stamford Bridge after holding the Blues to a 1-1 draw in the Premiership on Sunday. Chelsea were reduced to 10 men in the 80th minute after Ricardo Carvalho received his marching orders from referee Steve Bennett.
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/ 23 January 2006
Justice David Souter has a very nice home. A pretty 200-year-old wooden farmhouse, it is set in three hectares of land in the small town of Weare, New Hampshire. Taking advantage of a supreme court ruling, activists plan to confiscate his home to build a hotel.
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/ 23 January 2006
Russia’s intelligence service on Monday accused four British diplomats of involvement in a spy ring in which agents allegedly passed secrets through a high-tech communications system hidden in an innocent-looking stone in a Moscow park.
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/ 23 January 2006
The JSE was weaker at midday on Monday following Friday’s sharp fall on Wall Street. The bourse was nevertheless well off the morning’s worst levels, with bargain hunters looking to pick up cheap stock. By 12.12pm, the all-share and all-share industrial indices weakened 0,68% and 0,77% respectively.
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/ 23 January 2006
Police on Monday raided Yamaha Motor on suspicion that the Japanese company tried to export illegally to China agricultural-use helicopters that can be converted for military purposes. While the major motorcycle maker denied any wrongdoing, police and customs mobilised 280 investigators to search 20 locations.
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/ 23 January 2006
The national director of public prosecutions has refused to take any action on the Oilgate scandal for six months, says the official opposition Democratic Alliance. Spokesperson Hendrik Schmidt said the National Prosecuting Authority’s failure to take any action on this matter "is disgraceful and only serves to give the impression that it is desperately hoping the matter with simply go away".
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/ 23 January 2006
China’s economy likely became one of the world’s five biggest in 2005 as booming exports and surging investment again helped secure growth of well above nine percent, analysts said on Monday. Ahead of Wednesday’s release of China’s 2005 economic data, analysts expect the world fastest growing major economy to surge between 9,5 and 10,3% to surpass the two-trillion-dollar mark.
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/ 23 January 2006
Ferrari will on Tuesday officially unveil their new car for the 2006 Formula One season which they hope will recapture the title from Renault. The car has already been seen having made an unexpectedly early debut at Fiorano on January 16 where seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher drove it for 51 laps.
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/ 23 January 2006
A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a former assistant nurse to three years and eight months in prison for manually pulling 49 fingernails and toenails off of six female patients in 2004. The Kyoto District Court ruled that Akemi Sato (32) committed cruel and selfish crimes against her patients, most of whom had almost no physical strength to resist.
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/ 23 January 2006
With the trial of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on charges of crimes against humanity set to resume Tuesday, the court still had to decide on Monday who will be the chief judge. For the last seven sessions Judge Rizkar Mohammed Amin has been the most public judicial face of the trial of Saddam and seven co-defendants over the massacre of Shi’ites from the town of Dujail in the 1980s.