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/ 14 October 2004
In a bold attack on the compound housing the United States and Iraqi government headquarters, insurgents penetrated Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone and set off bombs at a market and a popular café on Thursday, killing seven people, including two Americans, the United States military said.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=123691">Iraq’s killing fields</a>
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/ 14 October 2004
The United Nations special envoy for the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa, Martti Ahtisaari, was expected to arrive in the Eritrean capital, Asmara, on Wednesday to discuss the humanitarian situation in the country, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported.
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/ 14 October 2004
Campaigners against alcohol abuse were up in arms on Thursday after the French Parliament voted in favour of a law which will ease the tight restrictions on advertising wine and possibly other drinks. Critics accused the centre-right government of President Jacques Chirac of abandoning a pledge to clamp down on alcohol abuse.
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/ 14 October 2004
Africa must brace itself for an Aids time bomb as 8 000 people are infected with HIV a day in the region worst hit by the pandemic, the United Nations warned on Thursday. Seventy percent of the 45-million people worldwide infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa — even though the region is home to only 11% of the world’s population.
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/ 14 October 2004
A respectable, middle-aged woman with a steady partner would leave the house while sleepwalking and have random sex with strangers, an Australian doctor said in a report on Thursday. Peter Buchanan, who treated the woman, said this was an example of a recently identified disorder known as sleep sex.
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/ 14 October 2004
Three hippos attacked and killed a zebra they had lived alongside for 12 years in front of shocked visitors at Basel Zoo in Switzerland, authorities said on Thursday. Kalungu, a 17-year-old male zebra, was knocked into the water and mauled after he bit the lip of hippo Wilhelm during the animals’ daily ritual to establish territory.
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/ 14 October 2004
Cape Town conservation authorities are increasingly considering capturing a young hippopotamus that has been on the run for a couple of weeks after escaping from the Zeekoevlei Nature Reserve. The hippo has captured the public’s imagination. So far, passive capture methods have proved unsuccessful.
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/ 14 October 2004
The Israeli army on Wednesday suspended an officer who is accused of firing up to 20 bullets into a 13-year-old Palestinian as she lay on the ground after having been shot from an army outpost. Another schoolgirl died on Wednesday after being shot while sitting at her school desk.
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/ 14 October 2004
Nasdaq-listed multinational technology group Novell fully backs the black economic empowerment (BEE) charter for the sector and is looking forward to concluding a BEE deal soon, Novell SA managing director Stafford Masie said on Thursday.
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/ 14 October 2004
The African National Congress has rejected media speculation that it is opening debate on who is to succeed President Thabo Mbeki as South African leader. In a statement on Thursday — in response to such speculation — the party said it wants to clarify a number of issues regarding the leadership succession.