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/ 24 October 2005
Five years after Eritrea fought a border war with Ethiopia, the tiny Horn of Africa nation has increasingly isolated itself, showing anger towards the international community and intensifying its sabre-rattling. This nation on the western banks of the Red Sea has been facing a litany of condemnation over its record on human rights and press freedom.
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/ 24 October 2005
Nigeria began three days of national mourning on Monday as investigators sought to find out why a passenger airline had crashed to earth and been ripped apart, killing all the 117 passengers and crew on board. Emergency workers continued with the gruesome task of disentangling the shredded corpses of the passengers from the widely scattered wreckage of the Boeing 737 jet.
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/ 24 October 2005
Voters overwhelmingly rejected on Sunday a measure to ban gun sales in Brazil, which has one of the world’s highest murder rates. The government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, human rights groups and the Roman Catholic Church all backed the ban. But the public had swung dramatically against the proposal in recent weeks.
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/ 24 October 2005
Iraq’s bar association urged lawyers on Sunday to stop working with the special court trying Saddam Hussein until the murder of a member of the defence team is solved. It also called for a one-day strike on Wednesday in protest at the killing of Saadoun Janabi, who was abducted from his Baghdad office by heavily armed men a day after he was seen on television challenging the legitimacy of the court.
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/ 24 October 2005
Afrikaans singer Janita Claassen died of a long illness on Monday morning, news reports said. The popular singer had been battling cancer that affected her lungs and throat. Radio reports said she was 58 when she died. She was recently honoured at a concert in Centurion, Pretoria.
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/ 24 October 2005
England skipper David Beckham was sent off as Real Madrid crashed to a 2-1 defeat to Valencia on Sunday leaving city neighbours Getafe to take top spot in the Spanish championship. Getafe, in only their second season of top flight football, beat Real Zaragoza 5-2 while Real’s four-game winning streak came to an end with their home defeat.
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/ 24 October 2005
Lucas Glover holed out from a bunker at the 18th on Sunday to claim a stunning one-stroke victory in the ,4-million Funai Classic. Outlasting a strong field and some trying weather earlier in the tournament, the 25-year-old carded a seven-under-par 65 in perfect scoring conditions on the Magnolia course to finish at 23-under 265.
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/ 24 October 2005
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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) will on Monday appeal a court ruling that the NPA return documents seized in a search of the offices of Julekha Mahomed, an attorney of former deputy president Jacob Zuma. The documents were taken during a countrywide raid on Zuma’s properties and those of his lawyers by the Scorpions in August.
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/ 24 October 2005
Scott Podsednik belted a walk-off home run to seal a 7-6 White Sox victory over Houston on Sunday, insuring Chicago teammate Paul Konerko’s grand slam didn’t go to waste in game two of the World Series. The White Sox seized a two-games-to-none lead in the best-of-seven Major League Baseball championship series, which heads to Houston on Tuesday for game three.
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/ 24 October 2005
Sitting in a classroom and wearing a shirt, tie and perfectly polished shoes, Lamine, a computer-science student in Senegal’s capital city, admits he has no idea whether or not he is HIV-positive. "I’ve never been tested and I don’t think I’ll do it any time soon," said the 25-year-old Dakar resident.