Currie Cup streaker fined R2 000, and other brief reports
* Rugby fan Johannes Fouche, a 43-year-old technician from Doornpoort, was sentenced yesterday to a fine of R2 000 or eight months in jail, for streaking nude during the Currie Cup semi-final between the Bulls and the Lions in Pretoria. Half of this sentence was suspended for five years. The Mercury
* The number of SA liquidations surged by 68.1% in September to 437 from 260 in August, but was still 6.2% lower than the 466 recorded in September 2003 and below the record 511 of August 2000. I-Net Bridge * Four Britons who were held at Guantanamo Bay for more than two-and-a-half years have sued the American Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior Pentagon officials for $40m accusing them of organising, authorising and overseeing alleged torture and inhumane treatment at the US prison. The Independent