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/ 18 September 2004
Police discovered scores of reptiles, including deadly snakes and three crocodiles, in a suburban Sydney home, officials said on Saturday. David O’Shannessy of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said his staff found three baby crocodiles as well as snakes among more than 100 animals in the house.
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/ 18 September 2004
Sudan has pledged to stick to the terms of an oft-violated ceasefire agreement for its civil-war wracked Darfur region and said it will allow humanitarian agencies unfettered access to the area where tens of thousands have died. African Union-hosted peace talks in Nigeria collapsed without agreement on Wednesday.
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/ 18 September 2004
A suicide car bomb ripped through the Iraqi national guard headquarters in Kirkuk on Saturday, killing 10 people in the second major attack on the northern city this month. Also, nine people were wounded when a mortar shell struck a crowd of students and parents awaiting exam results in front of a school in the Iraqi city of Baquba.
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/ 18 September 2004
Police in Moscow found and defused two car bombs overnight in the Russian capital, Russian media reported on Saturday. Police discovered the two cars, filled with explosives and mines, on two separate residential streets in the city centre late on Friday, Interfax reported, citing an unnamed police official.
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/ 18 September 2004
Dutch airline KLM is concerned about the security situation at Johannesburg International airport following Thursday’s attempted robbery near one of its aircraft. On Thursday night, a gang of armed men tried to intercept a cargo as it was being loaded on board with a police escort.
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/ 18 September 2004
The mutilated body of a newborn baby boy apparently eaten by a dog was found near an informal settlement on the farm Rietvlei near Sundra, Mpumalanga police reported on Friday. Inspector Leonard Hlathi said farm residents spotted the baby’s body and informed police on Thursday.
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/ 18 September 2004
South African students at a high school in a township outside Durban were treated to a special science lesson on Friday, delivered by Indian President Abdul Kalam. The Indian statesman later wrapped up his visit — the first ever by a head of state from the subcontinent — by travelling to Chatsworth.
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/ 18 September 2004
Four western countries set the scene on Friday for a showdown with Iran by demanding that it freeze its uranium enrichment activities immediately. The United States, Britain, France and Germany agreed on a form of words at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, which threaten tough action in November if Iran remains defiant.
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/ 18 September 2004
Two decades ago the men of Pomfret lived in Angola where the apartheid regime enlisted the men into a black foreign legion, 32 Battalion, to fight against liberation movements in Namibia and Angola. Earlier this year, former members of 32 Battalion repeated that folly for a Briton and his backers.
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/ 18 September 2004
The comprehensive 15-month search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, conducted by the Iraq Survey Group, has concluded that the only chemical or biological agents that Saddam Hussein’s regime was working on before last year’s invasion were small quantities of poisons, most likely for use in assassinations.
Car bomb kills 10 in Kirkuk