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/ 20 October 2004
The England and Wales Cricket Board probe into safety and security ahead of England’s two-week tour of Zimbabwe enters phase two on Wednesday when the group travels to the capital, Harare. So far, investigations have been centred for two days in the country’s second city, the most likely location for demonstrations.
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/ 20 October 2004
Cheetahs veteran loosehead prop Os du Randt is on the threshold of joining an elite group of South African rugby players, although he was not even aware of the fact on Tuesday. If the Cheetahs win on Saturday, Du Randt will add a Currie Cup medal to those he has already earned for the World Cup win in 1995 and the Tri-Nations triumph earlier this year.
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/ 19 October 2004
Powerful Typhoon Tokage struck southern Japan on Tuesday, with torrential rain and strong winds that disrupted air traffic, forced public schools to close and left thousands of households without electricity. Six people suffered minor injuries. The typhoon was headed for Japan’s main islands late on Tuesday.
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/ 19 October 2004
The European Union reached a settlement on Tuesday of its long-running antitrust case against the Coca-Cola Company, under which the world’s biggest soft-drinks company agreed to change sales practices that helped it win roughly half of the market in Europe.
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/ 19 October 2004
Although ”elements” of al-Qaeda have been detected in South Africa, the terrorist organisation has established no networks here, Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils said on Tuesday. Speaking at a Cape Town Press Club luncheon, he described al-Qaeda as ”a huge international threat”.
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/ 19 October 2004
Traders staged a one-day strike after members of an elite police squad were deployed at markets in south-east Bangladesh to drive down the price of onions, a report said on Tuesday. Many garlic and potato sellers in the port city of Chittagong also shut up shop in a show of solidarity, official news agency BSS said.
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/ 19 October 2004
Israeli authorities are bracing themselves for a violent backlash to the planned pull-out from Gaza, as growing fears were voiced on Tuesday that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s life is in danger from extremists. ”I am afraid that someone will try to kill the prime minister,” Labour party leader Shimon Peres told the Maariv daily.
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/ 19 October 2004
Elections officials knew something was wrong when they got voter registration cards for Mary Poppins, Dick Tracy, Michael Jordan and George Foreman. They notified the sheriff of Defiance County, Ohio, who arrested Chad Staton on Monday on a felony charge of submitting phony voter registration forms.
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/ 19 October 2004
A British official from a leading international aid organisation was kidnapped in Iraq on Tuesday as four Iraqi national guards were killed and scores wounded in a mortar attack. Britain has hinted it will agree to a request by the United States to send some of its troops to more unstable areas.
Fallujah siege continues