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/ 15 October 2005
The European Union was awaiting test results on Saturday that should show whether a lethal strain of bird flu that has killed more than 60 people in Asia has reached Europe. Bird flu has been detected in two Romanian villages and the tests will prove whether this is the fatal H5N1 strain. The deadly strain has been detected in Turkey.
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/ 14 October 2005
A Prague court on Friday ruled that a TV quiz-show contestant was right when the moderator called him wrong on the Czech Republic’s version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The court awarded Karel Lupomesky more than three million koruna ( 000) in prize money.
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/ 14 October 2005
Western Cape African National Congress dissidents on Friday displayed soccer-style red cards to condemn the actions of provincial executive committee members during a protest at the ANC’s regional headquarters. The red and yellow cards targeted provincial secretary Mcebisi Skwatsha and others.
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/ 14 October 2005
Rain fell for an eighth straight day around the waterlogged United States North-East on Friday, pushing people from their homes in the middle of the night and leaving train tracks littered with fallen trees. Flood warnings covered parts of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey.
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/ 14 October 2005
Sunni insurgents launched five attacks against the largest Sunni Arab political party on the eve of Iraq’s crucial referendum on Friday, bombing and burning offices and the home of one of its leaders in retaliation after the group dropped its opposition to the draft Constitution. The reprisals came as Sunni and Shi’ite clerics gave their last advice to their followers in sermons during weekly Friday prayers.
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/ 14 October 2005
Villages wiped off the map, bodies rotting, survivors walking hours for water — earthquake victims fleeing Kashmir’s still inaccessible mountains recount the same apocalyptic tales. As villagers trudge into Pakistani Kashmir’s ravaged capital, they recount stories of entire towns razed and out of reach of food and medicine.
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/ 14 October 2005
The draft preliminary design report for the Gautrain Rapid Rail link was released for public comment on Friday. The report, released by the Gauteng department of public transport, roads and works, provides details of some of the stations planned between Johannesburg and Pretoria.
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/ 14 October 2005
If the Diamonds Amendment Bill currently before Parliament is passed in its present form, it will damage the entire industry, from mining houses to jewellery stores, warns Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon. Even more alarming, he says, is the haste with which the African National Congress is trying to push through the measure.
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/ 14 October 2005
Sudan and Eritrea hailed on Friday a major improvement in bilateral relations strained by a decade of mutual accusations of support for each other’s opposition groups. ”The two sides have reached a breakthrough after four days of strenuous talks, ending more than 10 years of estrangement that were not in the interest of the two neighbours and their brotherly peoples,” said Sudanese foreign ministry spokesperson Jamal Mohammed Ibrahim.
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/ 14 October 2005
Viewing and discussing art not only soothes the soul, it also helps cure ills such as high blood pressure and constipation, a Swedish researcher said on Friday. A researcher of the Ersta Skoendal University College in Stockholm had 20 women of about 80 years of age gather once a week for four months to discuss different works of art.