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/ 17 October 2005
More than 50% of urban South Africans have never gone a day without having anything to eat, research released on Sunday has found. Markinor, an associate of Gallop International, which carried out the study, said 73% of urban South Africans who participated in the survey had rarely or never experienced hunger.
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/ 17 October 2005
About 70 insurgents were killed in United States air strikes in the Ramadi region of western Iraq, where five US and two Iraqi soldiers were killed in a weekend roadside bombing, the US military said on Monday. Fifty rebels were killed on Sunday in raids by helicopters and fighter jets on a suspected safe house in the Abu Faraj region.
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/ 17 October 2005
A second powerful quake, measuring 5,9 on the Richter scale, rocked the western Turkish city of Izmir on Monday, a spokesperson for the Kandilli observatory in Istanbul said. The quake came only a few hours after another powerful quake. On Sunday, a moderately strong earthquake jolted central Japan.
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/ 17 October 2005
The five Sedibeng district municipality residents who were earlier reported to have typhoid are not critically ill, the council’s executive mayor Mlungisi Hlongwane said on Sunday after a meeting with President Thabo Mbeki, who visited the area on Sunday and spoke to officials about problems such as corruption and housing.
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/ 17 October 2005
Minister of Foreign Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will host Northern Ireland’s Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams for discussions in Pretoria on Tuesday, her department said on Monday. Sinn Fein is the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. Adams will pay a special visit to South Africa from Tuesday to Friday.
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/ 17 October 2005
James Blake won his second title this season with a defeat of 2002 champion Paradorn Srichaphan 6-1, 7-6 (8/6) at the €680 250 Stockholm Open to stretch a late-season surge of form. The American, who missed much of last year through injury and the death of his father, added this title to the one at New Haven last August.
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/ 17 October 2005
As economic hardships and food shortages bite in Zimbabwe, thieves are mounting armed raids on potato farms near the capital Harare, the state-controlled Herald reported on Monday. Thieves armed with axes, spears and slingshots in large groups of up to 80 people have assaulted guards, killed their dogs and stolen potatoes worth one billion Zimbabwe dollars.
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/ 17 October 2005
Cellphone giant Sony Ericsson said on Monday it had outpaced a fast-growing global handset market to post profits for the third quarter well in excess of analysts’ expectations. Net profit rose to €104-million for the three months to September 30, up from €90-million in the same period of the previous year.
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/ 17 October 2005
Supersport United beat Golden Arrows 1-0 in a Premier Soccer League (PSL) match played at Super Stadium in Pretoria on Sunday afternoon. In other matches, Silver Stars beat a 10-man Black Leopards, and Sundowns hammered Tembisa Classic 3-0 in a pulsating PSL encounter played at the Harry Gwala Stadium.
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/ 17 October 2005
Beneath the civilised veneer of Helsinki’s broad boulevards lies a throbbing night scene fuelled by tar-coloured liquorice schnapps, lethally sweet cider and Lapin Kulta beer. Perhaps nowhere illustrates this better than Hevimesta, whose sober wooden doorway in the ministry of agriculture building gives away nothing by day.