Luis Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo and the rest of Portugal’s national team will be served healthy doses of chicken soup during the World Cup in Germany to ward off homesickness, the squad’s chef has said. Helio Loureiro, who has cooked for the team for eight years, told daily newspaper 24Horas there is nothing like the soup ”to give strength and revive family memories”.
Former Zambian president Frederick Chiluba, who is undergoing medical treatment in South Africa, is planning to sue a Zambian newspaper for alleging that he is HIV-positive, his spokesperson said on Tuesday. The privately-owned newspaper The Post said in an editorial that medical tests stating that Zambia’s second president was HIV-negative were fake.
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Emotional transference could lead a victim of previous rape to perceive consensual sex as rape afterwards, a forensic psychologist told Jacob Zuma’s rape trial on Tuesday. Testifying for Zuma, Louise Olivier also questioned whether his rape accuser froze during the alleged rape at his Johannesburg home.
Michael Schumacher aims to stay calm and at the same time highly motivated at the San Marino Grand Prix on the weekend in an effort to close in on Formula One world championship leader Fernando Alonso. The ex-world champion Schumacher said on Tuesday that Sunday’s race in Imola, the home GP of his Ferrari team, is to start Ferrari’s comeback.
Israel warned that a new ”axis of terror” — Iran, Syria and the Hamas-run Palestinian government — is sowing the seeds of the first world war of the 21st century. But the Palestinians accused Israel of an escalating and indiscriminate military campaign that targets civilians and entrenches its occupation.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa said on Tuesday that he can still perform his duties as head of state despite suffering a minor stroke that landed him in a London hospital two weeks ago. ”I am feeling very well, far better than when I went in. I am still not fully recovered but I will function,” Mwanawasa said in a telephone interview from London with state radio.
Heavy rains have sent a river gushing over its banks near Kenya’s coast, forcing at least 10 000 people from their homes and destroying thatched mud huts and crops in impoverished villages, a senior official said on Tuesday. The victims have taken shelter with relatives and on the grounds of two public schools after the Sabaki River began flooding last week, Malindi District Commissioner Jan Ireri said.
The attendance of G8 leaders at a July summit in Russia will prop up a government that has abandoned democratic principles and thus spell the G8’s death as a credible organisation, a former advisor to President Vladimir Putin said in an article published on Tuesday.
Steve Vaught heaves his bulk over the guard rail on Route 40 and excitedly points to the fast food litter in the thin brown stream as though it is evidence of a lost civilisation. ”Look at this: birth and death, pollution and renewal.” Underfoot there is a dead raccoon cub. ”Sorry buddy,” he says.
Makhaya Ntini and Dale Steyn ripped through New Zealand’s top order on the fourth morning of the first Castle Lager Test at Supersport Park on Tuesday to put South Africa in a very strong position, with New Zealand reeling on 34-6 at lunch. Working in tandem in chilly, overcast conditions, Ntini and Steyn at one stage reduced the Black Caps to 28-6.