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/ 16 October 2003
Former European champions Liverpool, Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund and Steaua Bucharest put aside their embarrassment of missing out on the lucrative Champions League this season by easing into the third round of the Uefa Cup. French teenager Anthony le Tallec marked his first Anfield start with a goal.
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/ 16 October 2003
Ajax Cape Town reached the quarterfinals of the lucrative Coca Cola Cup competition when they beat Dynamos 1-0 at Newlands on Wednesday night, and Jomo Cosmos also advanced to the quarterfinals when they beat Hellenic 4-2 on penalties after the teams were level 1-1 after extra time.
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/ 16 October 2003
Nigeria’s Mary Onyali bid farewell to international athletics on Wednesday with a gold medal in the 200m in front of an adoring home crowd at the All-Africa Games. Highlighting a day of Nigerian domination, the 35-year-old team captain collected her third gold after earlier winning the 100m.
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/ 15 October 2003
A former African archbishop has described the potential exclusion of gays in the Anglican Communion as a ”heresy” comparable to apartheid, as a summit of Anglican leaders got under way. The Most Reverend Walter Makhulu, the South African-born former archbishop of Central Africa, preached at a service in London.
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/ 15 October 2003
The Deputy Director General of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mike Tshishonga, has been suspended from his position. Tshishonga has alleged that Minister of Justice Penuell Maduna abused his powers to land a friend lucrative liquidation appointments.
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/ 15 October 2003
At least 350 traditional circumcisers in northern Ethiopia’s Gonder region have agreed to abandon the harmful practice as well as other forms of genital mutilation. Preparations are being made to provide loans to those who abandon the trade to help them make a living in a different way.
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/ 15 October 2003
South African President Thabo Mbeki arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday on a state visit to open a new chapter in ties with India, which until 1994 shunned the African state because of its white minority government. Mbeki’s talks are expected to focus on trade and other multilateral issues.
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/ 15 October 2003
A strong earthquake measuring 5,0 on the Richter scale struck Tokyo and other eastern Japanese areas on Wednesday, leaving at least five people injured. The tremors were powerful enough to make tall buildings in central Tokyo shake noticeably for several seconds.
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/ 15 October 2003
The many creditors of novelist DBC Pierre have been given a crumb of comfort after the self-confessed serial "cheating bastard" won literature’s most famous prize, the Man Booker. Pierre, the nom de plume of the reformed Mexican-Australian wildman Peter Finlay, is the oddest and most controversial character to have won the award.