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/ 30 October 2006
North Korea launched five short-range missiles during military exercises last week, a news report said on Monday. The missiles presumably had ranges between 10 and 50km, said Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s largest circulation newspaper, quoting an unnamed official.
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/ 30 October 2006
New high-tech advances were making internet crimes against children easier for paedophiles to commit and more difficult to detect, experts told a conference in Australia on Monday. Faster broadband, DSL and cable connections have contributed to an increase in paedophile activity on the internet, the 19th Computer Facilitated Crimes Against Children conference heard.
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/ 30 October 2006
South Korean KJ Choi captured his fourth career title on the PGA Tour on Sunday, cruising to a four-shot triumph in the Chrysler Championship. Choi started the day with a one-shot cushion in the ,3-million tournament and set the tone early with a 20-foot eagle at the par-five first.
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/ 30 October 2006
Millions of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo voted on Sunday in the first free presidential elections since independence in 1960, and in the hope of ending a decade of invasion and civil war thought to have killed four million people. The ballot was orderly with a steady stream of enthusiastic voters and few irregularities reported.
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/ 30 October 2006
United States President George Bush, sidelined from the fray in this election season, started a high energy tour of the Republican heartland at the weekend to rally party loyalists and try to beat back Democratic challenges as the mid-term campaign enters its final days.
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/ 30 October 2006
West Indies player Dwayne Bravo was on Sunday found not guilty of breaching the ICC Code of Conduct after his controversial catch in the Champions Trophy match against England. Bravo was charged with failing to ”conduct play within the spirit of the game,” after his running catch to dismiss Michael Yardy on Saturday.
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/ 30 October 2006
Rescue teams recovered the bodies of the two remaining miners trapped underground at AngloGold Ashanti’s Tau Tona mine near Carletonville at the weekend. The recovery of all five missing miners was completed five days after the fall of ground at the mine, following two seismic events on Monday afternoon.
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/ 30 October 2006
Plans for a global fund to help contain rainforest destruction and slash carbon emissions will be unveiled next month by the Brazilian government. The project, by which rich nations would offer financial incentives to developing countries that combat deforestation, will be announced at a convention on climate change in Nairobi.
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/ 30 October 2006
Audit reports for the past year indicate continued high levels of financial mismanagement and poor compliance with reporting procedures, Auditor General Shauket Fakie told members of Parliament recently. Compared with seven in the previous financial year, 11 departments received qualifications, meaning their reports were inadequate.
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/ 30 October 2006
The Zimbabwean government appears determined to extradite suspected mercenary Simon Mann to Equatorial Guinea, however, it is being hamstrung by the country’s inefficient legal system. Mann’s fate is still hanging in the balance and lawyers in the Attorney General’s office confirmed that "they were putting their papers together.