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/ 21 December 2004
Zambian police have released all 68 protesters, including several MPs, who were arrested for participating in a banned opposition demonstration to demand a new Constitution, an official said on Tuesday. ”They will appear in court soon,” police spokesperson Brenda Muntemba said.
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/ 21 December 2004
Police on Tuesday arrested four suspects who allegedly killed a Heidelberg farmer by dragging him behind his own vehicle with a rope tied round his neck, spokesperson Superintendent Andy Pieke said. The body of Joaquim Homem de Gouveia (70) was found on December 18 on a deserted area of the farm.
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/ 21 December 2004
Talks held in Moscow between various parties involved in Harmony Gold Mining’s ,9-billion takeover bid for Gold Fields have been described as ”constructive” without any details of the discussions being revealed. If successful, the Harmony bid would create the world’s largest gold mining company. The talks were held on Friday in Moscow in an attempt to find a new way forward in the two-month old takeover saga.
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/ 21 December 2004
A giant straw goat erected by local businessmen in the town of Gavle was torched — again — in what has become a holiday tradition some would call arson. A smouldering pile of wood and metal was all that remained on Tuesday of the traditional Swedish good-luck goat that businessmen in Gavle erect annually.
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/ 21 December 2004
On Monday night Ukraine’s presidential contest got personal when the two candidates went face to face in a bitter TV debate. It was broadcast nationwide five days before the repeat of the country’s run-off election, on Boxing Day. The opposition leader, Viktor Yushchenko, and the prime minister, Viktor Yanukovich, faced each other for more than an hour and a half.
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/ 21 December 2004
From the outside it is an unpromising sight. The brickwork of the three-storey building is scarred with black scorch marks from last year’s looting, and the cold concrete wall and floors are still bare where the furniture and fittings were stripped away. Only the sign above the entrance was spared, a blue-tiled mosaic announcing to the few who still visit: The House of Books and Documents.
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/ 21 December 2004
To the Indian schoolboy, it must have seemed like an ingenious if indelicate use of new technology. But when the 17-year-old used his mobile phone camera to record his girlfriend giving him oral sex he could have had little idea of the far-reaching global consequences. By Monday, his ungentlemanly act had provoked a scandal that was dominating every Indian newspaper.
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/ 21 December 2004
More than 100 000 Congolese have fled renewed fighting between the Democratic Republic of Congo army and rebels in the battle-torn east of the country, United Nations officials said on Monday. The civilians trekked deep into the mountainous jungle to escape weekend fighting around the deserted farming town of Kanyabayonga.
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/ 21 December 2004
Following the merger of LNM Holdings, which has a 50% stake in steel group Ispat Iscor, with Ispat International to form Mittal Steel Company, Ispat Iscor will be renamed and rebranded Mittal Steel South Africa. The name change is, however, subject to Ispat Iscor shareholder approval.
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/ 21 December 2004
Swiss-listed luxury goods group Richemont’s chief operating officer, Yannick Lakhnati, has resigned and will leave the group on May 31 next year, the company said on Tuesday. No decision has been taken as to the appointment of Lakhnati’s replacement.