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/ 18 January 2005
Officials in Somalia’s capital on Tuesday urged the country’s interim government to return home from exile in neighboring Kenya, saying residents in bullet-scarred Mogadishu were ready to welcome it. ”Mogadishu is peaceful enough and ready to welcome the new Somali government as well as hand over national institutions,” said governor Abdullahi Firibi.
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/ 18 January 2005
Airbus on Tuesday lifted the curtain on its A380 super jumbo — the world’s biggest passenger aircraft that is set to eclipse Boeing’s 747 when it takes to the skies next year. The European company unveiled the aircraft, which can carry up to 840 passengers, at a glitzy ceremony at its headquarters in Toulouse, south-west France.
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/ 18 January 2005
Iraq on Tuesday announced that it would close its borders during this month’s elections, with the news coming as more Shia election candidates were targeted by militants. The independent electoral commission said the country’s international borders would be closed for three days from January 29.
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/ 18 January 2005
Opener Nafis Iqbal hammered his maiden Test century on Tuesday to help Bangladesh draw the second test match against Zimbabwe and record their first-ever series triumph by 1-0. Chasing a target of 374 runs, Bangladesh posted 285 for five in the second innings to Iqbal’s match-saving knock of 121 off 354 balls, including 18 boundaries.
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/ 18 January 2005
AltX-listed food company All Joy’s deal with the National Empowerment Fund, whereby 8,33-million shares in All Joy were bought by the fund, will help beef up the company’s empowerment status while improving the share liquidity, as it will allow ordinary people to own 26% in the group, CEO and chairperson Marci Pather said on Tuesday.
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/ 18 January 2005
Boxing SA chairperson Mthobi Tyamzashe is spending sleepless nights worrying about the dwindling number of white boxers in the country. South Africa currently only has six white professional prize fighters. They include Anton Nel (heavyweight champion), Andre Thysse (super middleweight holder) and Daniel Bruwer.
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/ 18 January 2005
German linguists, always on guard to protect the language, announced on Tuesday that ”Humankapital” — ”human capital” — was the ”ugly word” of 2004, in their view. The jury of linguists said the term is degrading to employees and reduces people ”merely to an economically quantifiable size”.
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/ 18 January 2005
The new loveLife campaign for 2005 was launched last week. It is again a message that is hard to understand.
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/ 18 January 2005
Mount Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary says he has met the ghost of eminent British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton, who died during an expedition to Antarctica in 1916. In a video promoting conservation work on Shackleton’s hut in Antarctica, New Zealand’s greatest explorer describes how he saw the apparition when he first visited the hut at Ross Island.
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/ 18 January 2005
Cambodian authorities said on Tuesday that they have acted to combat a growing mouse plague by offering a government bounty of about two cents for every mouse tail farmers can muster. The offer of a bounty on only the severed tails of the mice is meant to encourage people not to waste the rest of the mouse after they receive their reward.