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/ 14 February 2005
A Swedish woman said on Sunday that she found a penis in a bottle of ketchup. However, Viktoria Ed said she was lucky enough to discover the organ before putting the sauce on her bread rolls, unlike her husband, Stefan, and their children, Madeleine and Simon.
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/ 14 February 2005
A major Indonesian food manufacturer has secured a place in the <i>Guinness Book of Records</i> by producing the world’s largest packet and the largest serving of instant noodles. The giant packet, created by PT Indofood Sukses Makmur, was 3,4m long, 2,35m wide and 0,47m thick.
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/ 14 February 2005
A Sydney shopping mall launched a "cereal dating" night at its supermarket on Monday, telling singles to come "get frisky at the fruit counter" for a Valentine’s night out. Singles eager to meet a kindred soul can cruise the supermarket aisles with message-sending breakfast-cereal boxes perched on their carts.
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/ 14 February 2005
Reigning Masters champion Phil Mickelson fired a one-over 73 on Sunday to capture the ,3-million Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, his second PGA victory in as many weeks. Mickelson beat Canada’s Mike Weir by four strokes and accomplished his first back-to-back and wire-to-wire victories on the tour.
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/ 14 February 2005
Minardi team owner Paul Stoddart said on Monday he will take motor sport’s governing body to court if it prevents his team from racing at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne next month. Minardi plan to use an updated version of their 2004 model car for the first three races of the season.
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/ 14 February 2005
The skyscraper in Madrid’s business and financial district that was gutted by a weekend fire remained upright but unstable on Monday with a large construction crane still perched on the roof atop the building’s blackened frame. ”Don’t Fall Down,” read the front-page headline on the free newspaper Que passed out to morning subway and bus commuters.
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/ 14 February 2005
High production output and sales volumes helped push Anglo Platinum’s (AngloPlat) headline earnings for 2004 to R2,62-billion, the company said on Monday. This was 25,1% above headline earnings in 2003, Anglo Platinum’s chief executive Ralph Havenstein said.
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/ 14 February 2005
The coach of Australian swimming superstar Ian Thorpe said on Monday the fertility of female swimmers is being threatened by a ”win at all costs” approach adopted by some coaches. Tracey Menzies said the gruelling training regimes could interrupt athletes’ menstrual cycles and affect their fertility.
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/ 14 February 2005
Michael Owen and Ivan Helguera scored three minutes apart late in the second half and Real Madrid rallied past Osasuna 2-1 on Sunday to give coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo a record seventh straight victory since taking over the club. The victory on a wind-swept field kept Madrid four points behind Spanish league leader FC Barcelona.
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/ 14 February 2005
Andy Roddick can forget his frustrating finish in the Australian Open. The top-seeded Roddick played a near-flawless first set and breezed to a 6-0, 6-4 victory over unseeded Cyril Saulnier of France in 50 minutes to win the SAP Open in the fastest final on the ATP circuit thus far this season.