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/ 26 October 2005
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson admitted on Wednesday that his side do not have the financial means to compete for the same players as champions Chelsea. Ferguson has seen targets Arjen Robben, Damien Duff and Michael Essien all snub Old Trafford in favour of the Roman Abramovich-backed Londoners.
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/ 26 October 2005
The JSE remained strong at midday on Wednesday as the market continued to be buoyed by news that global resources group Anglo American (Anglo) plans to reduce its shareholding in gold miner AngloGold Ashanti, and make other major changes. By noon, the all-share index had added 1,46%.
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/ 26 October 2005
Japan’s top three manufacturers have so far rejected offers from Airbus of contract work on the planned A350 jets, citing their order commitments to rival Boeing, Airbus chief executive Gustav Humbert said on Wednesday.
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/ 26 October 2005
South African coach Frans Cronje has little doubt that his team will be a force at the Nike Junior Tour International Masters tennis tournament to be played in Nice, France, from October 31 to November 5. Cronje will take charge of Grant Ive, Wesley Montgomery, Bianca Swanepoel and Kaylea Sher for the event that pits top junior players from 21 countries.
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/ 26 October 2005
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African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma has described the controversy around him as a challenge to South Africa’s Constitution. The test was how these matters were being handled, he told Metro FM in an interview on Tuesday.
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/ 26 October 2005
The International Rugby Board (IRB) is to launch a crackdown on spear-tackling with offenders facing the prospect of a six-month ban. Its announcement on Monday came as new video footage was released of the incident that left British and Irish Lions captain Brian O’Driscoll with a dislocated shoulder barely a minute into June’s first Test against New Zealand.
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/ 26 October 2005
Google is testing technology that would expand its online empire to include internet auctions and classified ads, the company said on Tuesday. The internet search leader and stock market darling made the announcements after researchers uncovered sample web pages on the company’s internet site.
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/ 26 October 2005
A grief-crazed Russian architect who lost his wife and two children in Germany’s worst ever aviation disaster tracked down the air traffic controller he blamed for the crash, and then stabbed him to death, a court heard on Tuesday. In his first account of the killing, Vitaly Kaloyev said that he travelled to Zurich where the 36-year-old controller lived with his wife and children.
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/ 26 October 2005
Sri Lanka’s media on Wednesday attributed their cricket team’s massive 152-run loss in the first limited-overs match against India to ”fireworks” from master batsman Sachin Tendulkar and Irfan Pathan, calling the former skipper’s performance ”Sachin’s magic”.
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/ 26 October 2005
Elaina Morton is not listed as one of the 2 000 Americans now confirmed killed in Iraq since the start of the war, but she might as well be. In United States military parlance the 23-year-old lab technician from Kansas would have been referred to as a ”surviving spouse”.