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/ 1 November 2004
Second-half goals from El-Hadji Diouf and Kevin Davies gave surprising Bolton to a 2-1 victory on Sunday over Newcastle. The win improved Bolton to 21 points, good for fourth place in England behind leaders Arsenal, Chelsea and Everton. Newcastle’s Darren Ambrose equalised for Newcastle early in the second half.
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/ 1 November 2004
A determined Bloemfontein Celtic scored an emphatic 2-1 win over Moroka Swallows in a tough Castle Premier League tie at Vodacom Park Stadium in Bloemfontein on Sunday. The hard-fought victory saw Phunya Sele Sele avenging their 3-2 elimination by the Birds in the Coca-Cola Cup a week ago.
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/ 1 November 2004
The Warriors fought back strongly to deny the Eagles a visit to the top of the log as they drew their Supersport Series match after both captains decided that there was no chance of a result in Bloemfontein on Sunday. The man-of-the-match award went to Nicky Boje for his efforts with both the bat and the ball.
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/ 1 November 2004
The Nashua Titans moved to the top of the Supersport Series log after drawing their match against the Nashua Dolphins at Centurion on Sunday. The Titans resumed play on the final day of the match on 180 runs for two, with Zander de Bruyn and Martin van Jaarsveld in the middle and chasing the 401 runs the Dolphins had posted in their first innings.
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/ 31 October 2004
Zimbabwe will appeal against the recent acquittal of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on charges of plotting to kill President Robert Mugabe before elections in 2002, a state-run newspaper reported on Sunday. Acting Attorney General Bharat Patel said the judgement ”has many flaws and we don’t think it should stand unchallenged”.
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/ 31 October 2004
Japan was making arrangements on Sunday to fly the decapitated body of a 24-year-old Japanese tourist killed in Iraq to Kuwait for his return home, a senior Japanese official told reporters in Jordan. Shosei Koda’s head and decapitated body with bound hands and feet was found wrapped in a United States flag on Saturday in Baghdad.
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/ 31 October 2004
The United Nations on Saturday pledged -million to support a growing population of orphans in the poor Southern African nation of Malawi. ”Malawi will have one million orphans by the year 2010,” said Stephen Lewis in the administrative capital, Lilongwe, at the end of his four-day official visit to Malawi.
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/ 31 October 2004
Election officials in Botswana were counting ballots on Sunday following nationwide polls that were expected to see the party in power since independence remain at the helm of the Southern African country. President Festus Mogae’s Botswana Democratic Party is set to win a comfortable majority of the 57 seats in Parliament.
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/ 31 October 2004
Stressed-out Indian MPs will relax at weekends with sack races and other games if a ministerial proposal is accepted, a report said on Sunday. According to a plan by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, a plethora of sporting events will be organised for the MPs at weekends during parliamentary sessions.