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/ 17 October 2005
James Blake won his second title this season with a defeat of 2002 champion Paradorn Srichaphan 6-1, 7-6 (8/6) at the €680 250 Stockholm Open to stretch a late-season surge of form. The American, who missed much of last year through injury and the death of his father, added this title to the one at New Haven last August.
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/ 17 October 2005
As economic hardships and food shortages bite in Zimbabwe, thieves are mounting armed raids on potato farms near the capital Harare, the state-controlled Herald reported on Monday. Thieves armed with axes, spears and slingshots in large groups of up to 80 people have assaulted guards, killed their dogs and stolen potatoes worth one billion Zimbabwe dollars.
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/ 17 October 2005
Cellphone giant Sony Ericsson said on Monday it had outpaced a fast-growing global handset market to post profits for the third quarter well in excess of analysts’ expectations. Net profit rose to €104-million for the three months to September 30, up from €90-million in the same period of the previous year.
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/ 17 October 2005
Supersport United beat Golden Arrows 1-0 in a Premier Soccer League (PSL) match played at Super Stadium in Pretoria on Sunday afternoon. In other matches, Silver Stars beat a 10-man Black Leopards, and Sundowns hammered Tembisa Classic 3-0 in a pulsating PSL encounter played at the Harry Gwala Stadium.
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/ 17 October 2005
Beneath the civilised veneer of Helsinki’s broad boulevards lies a throbbing night scene fuelled by tar-coloured liquorice schnapps, lethally sweet cider and Lapin Kulta beer. Perhaps nowhere illustrates this better than Hevimesta, whose sober wooden doorway in the ministry of agriculture building gives away nothing by day.
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/ 17 October 2005
The United Nations operation monitoring the increasingly tense border between Ethiopia and Eritrea said on Monday that Asmara’s ban on helicopter overflights would force it to vacate nearly half its posts on Eritrean territory. The UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea said a review of the ban had led it to conclude that it could no longer staff 18 of the smallest and most isolated of its 40 observation posts.
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/ 17 October 2005
It’s hardly a phenomenon these days for a soccer team to proclaim they were robbed. But after an intense, emotionally charged 1-1 Premier Soccer League derby draw between old rivals Moroka Swallows and Kaizer Chiefs at Johannesburg Stadium on Sunday afternoon, both sides were echoing this sentiment.
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/ 17 October 2005
South Africa striker Sibusiso Zuma has only been at German club Arminia Bielefeld for five months but he has become a favourite after scoring a wonder goal in Saturday’s 3-0 win over Hertha Berlin. Zuma weaved his way through the Hertha defence in a mazy run from the half-way line he capped off with a cool finish.
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/ 17 October 2005
A 48-year-old Frenchman who is accused of rape collected other men’s sperm from used condoms and left traces at the crime scene in order to confuse police, justice officials said on Thursday. Jean-Luc Cayez worked as doorman of an apartment block at Soisy-sur-Seine south of Paris.
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/ 17 October 2005
Michael Schumacher’s 2005 finale was a dismal ending to a season he’d rather forget. The seven-time world champion’s Shanghai woes resurfaced at the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday when he was forced to start from the pit lane after a pre-race collision. Then, 22 laps into the race, he spun out and calmly walked off the track.