Haroon Aswat, a Briton apprehended in Zambia two weeks ago reportedly wanted in connection with last month’s deadly bomb attacks in London, was arrested on his arrival in Britain on Sunday after being deported from Lusaka, Scotland Yard announced. Aswat was deported — and not extradited — to Britain from Zambia.
Four Chinese airline companies have agreed to buy 42 Boeing 787 jets for a total of $5,04-billion, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday. The purchase comes ahead of an expected visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao to the United States and is a coup for Chicago-based Boeing over European arch-rival Airbus SAS.
Listed gaming and hotel group Gold Reef Casino Resorts has ended talks with brewing giant SABMiller over its acquisition of SABMiller’s 49% stake in fellow gaming group Tsogo Sun Holdings, Gold Reef said in a statement on Monday. According to Gold Reef, SABMiller said its stake in Tsogo Sun is not for sale.
One of two main challengers to President Hosni Mubarak in next month’s elections said on Sunday that if elected, he would abolish Egypt’s emergency laws and release all political prisoners. But Noaman Gomaa, a law professor who leads the New Wafd Party, told reporters he would not let the Muslim Brotherhood stand as a party in elections.
Police in the Zimbabwean capital Harare are arresting more than 200 people daily as they continue a blitz on market vendors and street vagrants, state radio reported on Sunday. ”Police are aware that touts, street people and illegal vendors that had disappeared from the city are gradually resurfacing,” the radio said.
A month after running a negative review of John Irving’s new novel, The Washington Post has run a negative review of that review. Irving’s Until I Find You, an 824-page novel based partly on the author’s relationship with his father, was panned in a July 10 review by Marianne Wiggins as a ”mass of lazy, unrefined writing”.
South Africa’s Retief Goosen scored 32 points to capture his first PGA Tour title this year by winning the International. After rain postponed Thursday’s first round, 63 players were to take the course for the final two rounds on Sunday. There normally was a second cut where the field is reduced to the top 36 players and ties, but in an effort to play 36 holes, there was no third-round cut.
Mauritania’s self-declared head of state named a new prime minister to replace the former premier who resigned along with his Cabinet after last week’s coup. A judge also freed 21 people who had been detained for plotting against the ousted regime. Junta leader Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall named Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar as prime minister.
Sex offenders tracked by the state are banned from public hurricane shelters in Florida under a new policy that allows them to weather the storms in prison instead. The policy was created to keep sex offenders and predators away from children, said Robby Cunningham, spokesperson for the Department of Corrections.
Uncapped halfback Kevin Senio has been called into the All Blacks squad for the Tri-Nations rugby Test against Australia on Saturday, replacing the injured Byron Kelleher. Kelleher suffered a head injury in Saturday’s 22-16 loss to South Africa in Cape Town.