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/ 19 September 2005
Two suicide car bombers killed 10 people when they struck checkpoints south of Baghdad on Monday on a road used by thousands of Iraqi Shi’ite pilgrims making their way by foot to the holy city of Karbala. The bombers struck separate road checkpoints halfway between Baghdad and Karbala, a defence ministry official said.
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/ 19 September 2005
Telecommunications group Telkom has suspended three executives — Pinky Moholi, Belinda Williams and Oupa Magashula — pending an inquiry, it emerged on Monday. Telkom corporate communications executive Lulu Letlape said the three executives were asked to take a "leave of absence" pending an internal probe.
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/ 19 September 2005
Thanks to the Three Continental Film Festival two documentary films give us a rare look beneath the chador that has generally kept these cities and the people who live in them hidden from our curious, Hollywood-besotted eyes. Prostitution Behind the Veil takes a close-up look at what Tehran has become since the fall of the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran.
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/ 19 September 2005
As expected, Moroccan Davis Cup captain Abdel-Rahim Moundir named a team without top players Younes El Aynaoui and Hicham Arazi for this weekend’s Euro/Africa zone group-one tie against South Africa, to be played at the Club Olympic de Tennis in Khemisset.
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/ 19 September 2005
Aston Villa said on Monday they have received a preliminary approach to buy the English Premiership club. Villa were the subject of weekend speculation linking a Russian consortium with a possible takeover. A statement from Aston Villa plc to the Stock Exchange said such claims are ”inaccurate and unfounded”.
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/ 19 September 2005
Mining group Aflease Gold and Uranium Resources on Monday announced that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has begun a strike at the Bonanza South gold mine near Klerksdorp, along with an illegal underground sit-in. However, NUM Klerksdorp representative Hoyce Pundulu said the strike is legal.
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/ 19 September 2005
A Zimbabwe government official has accused opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai of staging a ”cheap publicity stunt” after Tsvangirai decided to walk to work to protest fuel shortages. Tsvangirai walked to work again on Monday, his spokesperson William Bango said.
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/ 19 September 2005
A 60-year-old man shared a two-room apartment with his mother’s corpse for five years, concealing her death so he could receive her pension, French police said on Saturday. Intrigued that the woman born in 1904 still received social-security payments, social services in the port city of Marseilles asked police to investigate.
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/ 19 September 2005
An elderly couple stranded by the rising tide off the British coast stunned coast guards by not only refusing to be rescued, but hurling abuse at a helicopter crew that attempted to winch them to safety, officials said on Saturday. The unnamed pair were spotted being forced to shelter in a cove on cliffs after the tide came in.
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/ 19 September 2005
Thousands of Neapolitans crowded the Italian city of Naples’s cathedral on Monday to see what they believe to be the dried blood of their patron saint liquefy in a glass vial. The alleged ”miracle”, which has been taking place almost without fail for centuries, is seen as a sign that San Gennaro (Saint Januarius) still loves them.