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/ 7 November 2005
For more than five decades they have shelled and shot at each other over the most heavily militarised frontier on earth, but now Indian and Pakistani troops are working side by side — almost. The sight of the nuclear rivals’ soldiers busily hoisting flags and driving bulldozers just a few footsteps away in the divided territory of Kashmir would have been unthinkable even two years ago.
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/ 7 November 2005
Six losses in a row and counting. Australia’s rugby union team is in the midst of its worst losing streak in 36 years. The Wallabies’ 26-16 loss to France on Saturday sparked renewed calls for the axing of captain George Gregan — who notched a record 115th test in Saturday’s defeat — and for coach Eddie Jones to either bring in new talent or be sacked as well.
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/ 7 November 2005
A Taiwan household registration office has rejected a women’s application to change her name to Hung Occult God of Wealth President, on the grounds that one’s name cannot contain ”president”. The woman recently applied to change her name to Hung Hsuangong Caishen Zongtong, which means Hung God of Wealth Occult President.
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/ 7 November 2005
Surviving offenders, who held four Zonderwater prison staff hostage on Sunday, have been taken to Pretoria’s C-Max high security prison, a source in the Zonderwater prison said. ”They are not here anymore and I have heard that Ngobese, the leader, is dead. He had a firearm,” said control room operator Solomon Masilela.
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/ 7 November 2005
The impoverished Richtersveld community, seeking to finalise restitution for land currently held by state diamond mining company Alexkor, has turned to the courts to compel the government to provide them with legal aid. This comes as the state has allocated an additional R17-million for its own legal costs.
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/ 7 November 2005
A record-equalling five catches by Mark Boucher, playing in his 200th one-day international, and a career-best spell of bowling by Andrew Hall helped South Africa to pin New Zealand down, and restrict their total to 215 all out with three balls to spare in the fifth and final match at Supersport Park on Sunday.
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/ 7 November 2005
The Soweto Marathon on Sunday ended yet again in controversy when the women’s winner Mamarola Tjoka was adjudged not to have crossed the start line. The athlete arrived at the start late and began the race beyond the start line which according to officials had infringed the laws.
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/ 7 November 2005
French President Jacques Chirac called an emergency meeting of his top ministers on Sunday night as urban unrest escalated further, touching the historic heart of Paris for the first time. Late on Sunday night rioters shot and injured 10 police officers, two seriously, when security forces confronted 200 stone-throwers.
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/ 7 November 2005
From esteemed college professor to one of China’s most recent prisoners of conscience, the fate of Zheng Yichun (47) has followed a familiar pattern for the country’s growing community of cyber dissidents. The former English literature professor was sentenced to seven years in prison in September for posting essays critical of the government online.
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/ 7 November 2005
A Hong Kong court sentenced a man to three months in prison Monday in what is believed to be the first jail sentence for distributing movie files over the popular online BitTorrent network. In a stark warning to online file sharers worldwide, Chan Nai-ming (38) an unemployed man who called himself "Big Crook", was jailed for uploading three Hollywood movies onto the web via the BitTorrent.