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/ 28 October 2003
Two-time World Cup quarterfinalists Samoa will give it their best shot against South Africa on Saturday, coach John Boe said on Tuesday, but it will take a mighty effort to beat them. ”This is the game of their lives [the Samoan players] and it represents a great challenge,” he said.
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/ 28 October 2003
Uruguay denied Georgia a first-ever World Cup win with a hard-fought 24-12 victory in Pool C’s battle of the no-hopers in Sydney on Tuesday. The win condemned Georgia to the bottom of the group, but the cash-strapped players from the former Soviet Union left to a rousing ovation.
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/ 28 October 2003
Pakistan middle-order batsmen Shoaib Malik and Moin Khan hung on to secure a thrilling draw on Tuesday in the second Test against South Africa, clinching the two-Test series 1-0. Needing 302 after a bold declaration by visiting skipper Graeme Smith late on Monday, Pakistan ended at 242 for six.
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/ 27 October 2003
National Development Agency (NDA) CEO Delani Mthembu has been suspended from his position pending an investigation into allegations of mismanagement and corruption, Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya announced on Monday. The suspension followed a preliminary forensic audit of the NDA.
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/ 27 October 2003
Former Mpumalanga premier-turned-businessman Mathews Phosa has been elected to the provincial African National Congress’s list of provincial and national candidates for next year’s elections, SABC Radio News reported on Monday. The ANC also announced on Monday that President Thabo Mbeki heads the North West’s national candidates nominations list.
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/ 27 October 2003
A series of bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital on Monday killed 26 civilians and eight policemen and wounded 224, interim Deputy Interior Minister Ahmed Ibrahim said. All five bombings across the Iraqi capital, including that at the headquarters of the International Committee for the Red Cross, were suicide attacks.
Suicide bomber kills 10 in Baghdad
Baghdad attack targets US hawk
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/ 27 October 2003
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Monday that Israel has no plans to kill Yasser Arafat but blamed the veteran Palestinian leader for the deaths of thousands of civilians. ”I don’t see any plans to kill him although the man is responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jews, mostly civilians,” said Sharon.
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/ 27 October 2003
Rescuers in a flooded mine in southern Russia raced against time on Monday to reach 13 men believed trapped in an airpocket with no food and air likely to run out within a day or two. Fears mounted over the fate of the 13, cut off from another group of 33 who were also trapped by the water but were rescued on Saturday.
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/ 27 October 2003
A Libyan newspaper, banned for two weeks for attacking Lebanese Shiite parties and some Arab governments, reappeared on newsstands on Monday with a new editor. Az-Zahf Al-Akhdar, an ideological journal of the Revolutionary Committees, was banned on October 13 for publishing several articles attacking the speaker of Lebanon’s parliament and leader of the Shiite Amal party
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/ 27 October 2003
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) will not succeed without sound, well-regulated financial markets, FirstRand Banking Group CEO Paul Harris said on Monday. "The African renaissance … won’t happen unless the continent develops its soft infrastructure," Harris said.