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/ 24 October 2005
Italian Marco Melandri, riding a Honda, won the Turkish MotoGP in Istanbul on Sunday ahead of world champion Valentino Rossi, who failed in his bid to equal the season’s win record of legendary Australian Mick Doohan. American Nicky Hayden came third as Melandri took his first grand-prix victory at the inaugural Turkish MotoGP.
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/ 24 October 2005
A sparkling innings of 73 by big-hitting Justin Kemp saw South Africa win the first Standard Bank one-day international against New Zealand by two wickets in Bloemfontein on Sunday, to take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series. The nearly 7 000 fans were left on tenterhooks until the final over.
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/ 24 October 2005
An insurgent blew up his car in a Baghdad square, killing four people in the first significant suicide bombing in the capital in weeks. More than 20 Iraqis died in a swell of violence, including a bomb that killed a police colonel and four children. In the past, Baghdad has been heavily battered by deadly suicide attacks, with a string of them killing nearly 700 people from April 1 to early September.
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/ 24 October 2005
The undertaking business will controversially call for the HIV status of the dead to be recorded on death certificates, the United Funeral Association of SA (Ufasa) said on Monday. ”The government must recognise what the health threat is to the industry,” Ufasa’s founder member Johan Rousseau said.
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/ 24 October 2005
Harriet Miers nominated by President George Bush to fill a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court currently lacks the votes for her confirmation by the US Senate, despite an intense White House campaign to sell her candidacy, lawmakers from both parties acknowledged.
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/ 24 October 2005
China plans to send more athletes overseas to gain big event experience so they can make a mark on home turf at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, according to one of the country’s top athletics officials. Feng Shuoyong, vice-director of China’s Athletics Administrative Centre, says they need to be toughened mentally to handle the pressure that comes with such major competitions.
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/ 24 October 2005
Five years after Eritrea fought a border war with Ethiopia, the tiny Horn of Africa nation has increasingly isolated itself, showing anger towards the international community and intensifying its sabre-rattling. This nation on the western banks of the Red Sea has been facing a litany of condemnation over its record on human rights and press freedom.
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/ 24 October 2005
The race-based Eyethu share scheme offered by Nedbank was likely to be tested in the equality court after a complaint by one of its members, labour union Solidarity said on Sunday. Spokesperson Kallie Kriel said in a statement that Clinton Kuypers tried twice in the past week to buy Eyethu shares from Nedbank, but was turned away because he is ”white”.
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/ 24 October 2005
Nigeria began three days of national mourning on Monday as investigators sought to find out why a passenger airline had crashed to earth and been ripped apart, killing all the 117 passengers and crew on board. Emergency workers continued with the gruesome task of disentangling the shredded corpses of the passengers from the widely scattered wreckage of the Boeing 737 jet.
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/ 24 October 2005
Voters overwhelmingly rejected on Sunday a measure to ban gun sales in Brazil, which has one of the world’s highest murder rates. The government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, human rights groups and the Roman Catholic Church all backed the ban. But the public had swung dramatically against the proposal in recent weeks.