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/ 21 October 2004
More than a third of Turkish women believe they deserve being beaten if they argue with their husbands, deny them sex or burn the meal, according to a survey carried by Anatolia news agency on Thursday. Arguing with the husband topped the list of justified reasons for domestic violence, followed by too much spending and the negligence of children.
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/ 21 October 2004
Jenson Button will stay with the BAR-Honda team for the 2005 season, dealing a major blow to Williams who had hoped the British driver would spearhead their world championship challenge. Button had wanted to return to Williams, but that hope was dashed by a ruling from the formula-one Contract Recognition Board in Milan.
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/ 21 October 2004
A goal two minutes from full-time from captain Duncan Lechesa saw Black Leopards share the spoils with Supersport United in their Castle Premier Soccer League match played at the Thohoyandou Stadium on Wednesday night. The visitors grabbed the lead in the 19th minute.
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/ 21 October 2004
Defending champion Juan Carlos Ferrero was eliminated by Luis Horna of Peru 6-3, 6-1 in the second round of the €2,4-million Madrid Masters on Wednesday. Ferrero committed 37 unforced errors in his worst result since April, when he could win only three games against Spanish countryman Fernando Verdasco in the Valencia semifinals.
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/ 21 October 2004
A group of handicapped South Africans have threatened legal action against a local airline for charging extra fees to passengers who need assistance boarding. Nationwide Airlines will have to answer to complaints of discrimination before the Equality Court, a Cape Town-based tribunal, said Vincent Gore, a member of the Independent Democrats opposition party.
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/ 20 October 2004
Nigeria angrily rejected the results and methodology of the world’s best-known corruption study on Wednesday after being named the third most corrupt of the 145 countries surveyed. Nigeria has been anchored at or around the bottom of Transparency International’s annual corruption index since it was first published.
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/ 20 October 2004
A group of handicapped South Africans has threatened legal action against a local airline for charging extra fees to passengers who need assistance boarding, an MP said on Wednesday. The South African-based Nationwide Airlines will answer to complaints of discrimination before the Equality Court, a Cape Town-based tribunal.
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/ 20 October 2004
South Africa’s employment rate has grown 3% over the past four quarters but that is not enough to halve unemployment by 2010, said economist Mike Schussler in Pretoria on Wednesday. Addressing journalists at a Solidarity union meeting, Schussler nevertheless painted a rosy picture of the South African economy.
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/ 20 October 2004
An egg mixture in a bottle with virtually no fat will go on sale on Thursday in Britain, where a national fat problem of huge proportions has been matched by expanding diet-food sales. The Health Living Liquid Eggs contain the equivalent of five medium-sized eggs in a bottle, but have had almost all the yolk removed.