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/ 14 December 2004
The 2005 Telefonica Dakar rally, due to start in Barcelona on December 31, will be a shorter version of previous year’s events, but no less demanding. The organisers have made a number of changes to the rules of the rally to bring more variety into the event.
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/ 14 December 2004
Lord’s, the traditional home of cricket, appears set to lose one of its long-standing tenants for tax reasons, with the International Cricket Council considering a new permanent base. A failure by the British government to meet its apparent promise of tax concessions on annual income is almost certain to lead to a relocation.
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/ 14 December 2004
South Africa’s dismal netball tour of the United Kingdom came to an end on Monday night with both the seniors and under-21s losing their last Tests in Birmingham. England left their best for last and gave South Africa a hiding to nothing. They won 61-37 — the biggest margin yet in the series.
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/ 14 December 2004
How do you remove a stray cockroach jammed in the ear? Get the roach drunk. A doctor in the southeastern Chinese port city of Xiamen plucked a 1,5cm roach from a 12-year-old boy’s ear with tweezers four minutes after dousing it with alcohol, the official China Daily newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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/ 13 December 2004
Rebel troops on Monday killed a dozen Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) government soldiers in a battle for control of the eastern town of Kanyabayonga, rebel officials said. The rebels, a mutinous force within the vast country’s post-war army, were in control of central Kanyabayonga.
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/ 13 December 2004
The government has made R4,2-billion rand available over the next three years to improve police salaries, National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi announced on Monday. He said the ”long overdue” salary improvements are intended to boost morale and improve service delivery to the public.
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/ 13 December 2004
Twin brothers aged 10 have been arrested by police after holding up shops and terrorising residents on a Hong Kong public housing estate, a news report said on Monday. The boys were arrested on Sunday after they started a fire by piling up newspapers and magazines and setting them alight in a playground.
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/ 13 December 2004
A groundbreaking trial of random roadside saliva testing for illegal drugs turned up trumps in Australia on Monday with one in eight of the first batch of drivers turning in a swab that contained traces of cannabis. In the year-long trial, the first of its kind in the world, Victoria police Victoria expect to check the ”gob swabs” of 9 000 drivers.
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/ 13 December 2004
Women who suspect that the lean, muscled divorcee they married lets himself go as soon the ring is on his finger have been given scientific backing. A study of nearly 40 000 American men aged between 40 and 75 found that men who remarry put on weight and exercise less.