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/ 20 October 2005
Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo was arrested on Wednesday and questioned on suspicion of rape, reports said. Scotland Yard said two men were questioned in connection with an allegation of a serious sexual assault at a central London hotel, and one was arrested. Media reports said the man arrested was Ronaldo.
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/ 20 October 2005
World number one Tiger Woods returns to the Funai Classic after skipping the event last year, but Hurricane Wilma could wreak havoc at the star-studded event that starts on Thursday. Woods won the tournament in 1996 and followed it up with an encore in 1999.
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/ 20 October 2005
Lyon defeated Olympiakos 2-1 on Wednesday, leaving the four-time defending French champions as one of only three teams with perfect records in the Champions League. Inter Milan saw their perfect record blemished with a 2-0 loss at 2004 champions FC Porto. Two other teams won big — Chelsea and Real Madrid.
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/ 20 October 2005
Like an ailing share on the stock market, Bafana Bafana on Wednesday slipped to 46th place in the Fifa world rankings — the most dire position in the past 10 years. South Africa had already touched a 10-year low in September, and a nightmare sequence of defeats has resulted in a further drop of four places in the past month.
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/ 20 October 2005
Tennis bad boy Lleyton Hewitt’s attempt to show fans his softer side in a documentary has ended up with the world number three facing legal action in Australia brought by his former best friend. Hewitt has included footage of himself and Australian-rules football player Andrew McLeod visiting Aboriginal sacred sites together.
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/ 20 October 2005
The World Health Organisation expressed concern on Thursday about the latest outbreak of bird flu in China as the ministry of agriculture revealed more than 91 000 birds had been culled. A Thai farmer has died from bird flu after contact with infected poultry, and in Russia, the virus has been discovered in the province of Tula.
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/ 20 October 2005
Crude futures fell on Thursday on news that United States gasoline stocks rose last week and as forecasts predicted Hurricane Wilma will likely avoid key US oil facilities along the Gulf of Mexico coast. Light, sweet crude for November delivery slipped 44 cents to ,97 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange in Asian electronic trading.
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/ 20 October 2005
A United States company has set up operations in China to sell land on the moon for 289 yuan () an acre, cashing in on renewed interest in space travel after the successful five-day voyage of Shenzhou VI. The so-called Lunar Embassy is touted as the first extraterrestrial estate agency.
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/ 20 October 2005
A ticket sold in Oregon, United States, has matched all six numbers drawn in the Powerball lottery game to win the -million jackpot. The drawing on Wednesday capped off a day of heavy sales in all 27 states where Powerball is played, plus the District of Columbia and the US Virgin Islands.
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/ 20 October 2005
Alexander Yakovlev, who has died in Moscow aged 81, was the most powerful — and most contradictory — intellectual in the top echelons of the Soviet Communist party in its final decade. A one-time academic, diplomat and ideologue, he provided the theoretical backing for Mikhail Gorbachev’s perestroika.