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/ 17 September 2005
As farming experts in Zimbabwe predict another dismal agricultural season, the country’s vice-president has threatened to take back farms from newly resettled black farmers if they do not fully use the land, a newspaper reported on Saturday. ”If you are not farming properly, this is sabotage at its highest level,” Mujuru said.
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/ 17 September 2005
One lucky lottery player won a French record €75-million (R585-million) in the Euro Millions lottery roll-over jackpot on Friday, the organisers announced. The winner bought the ticket in a railway café in the town of Franconville, in the suburbs north of Paris, the Francaise des Jeux company said.
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/ 17 September 2005
Top-seeded Retief Goosen tied his own World Match Play record with an overwhelming 12 and 11 victory over Mark Hensby on Friday and will play United States Open champion Michael Campbell for a place in the final. Campbell drew level with Steve Elkington at the 35th, winning at the 37th with a par to secure his place in the semifinals.
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/ 17 September 2005
The Leopards pushed the Lions all the way before succumbing 44-27 in an entertaining Currie Cup premier-division encounter at Ellis Park on Friday night. The home team earned a bonus point for scoring five tries, while the visitors scored two on an evening when both teams left tries on the table.
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/ 17 September 2005
Manchester United assistant manager Carlos Queiroz has defended his record as coach at Real Madrid, saying the Spanish club’s disastrous start to the new season shows he was not the cause of its weakness. ”What is going on now with the club just proves that my work was not judged fairly by the management of the club,” he said.
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/ 17 September 2005
The first Jacques Kallis benefit match ended in an exciting finish at Newlands on Friday night. Despite a century from Salman Butt and some big hitting from Lance Klusener, cool heads in the fielding team prevailed and Andrew Hall was particularly composed in a final spell of four overs.
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/ 17 September 2005
A leading Sunni cleric called for religious and ethnic groups to take a stand against violence as Iraq endured a third consecutive day of sectarian killings — the worst, a suicide car bombing at a Shi’ite mosque that killed at least 12 worshippers. With more than 20 people killed on Friday, the death toll over the past three days surpassed 200.
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/ 17 September 2005
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez said on Friday he has proof of a United States plan to invade his county at the end of a visit to the US for the United Nations General Assembly packed with diplomatic fireworks. ”I have evidence that there are plans to invade Venezuela,” the left-wing leader told ABC television in an interview.
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/ 17 September 2005
Producer Sid Luft, who is credited with reviving the career of his then-wife Judy Garland in the 1950s, has died. He was 89. Luft, whose movie production credits included Kilroy Was Here (1947), French Leave (1948) and A Star Is Born (1954), died on Thursday in Santa Monica of an apparent heart attack.
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/ 17 September 2005
The United States Catholic Church, stung by a sex-abuse scandal, is poised to launch a quiet campaign to clean its seminaries of people suspected of homosexual orientation, sparking protests from the gay community whose leaders have compared the effort to a witch-hunt.