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/ 22 February 2006
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will set up a special panel to investigate the doping scandal involving the Austrian Nordic ski team at the Turin Olympics, IOC president Jacques Rogge said on Tuesday. The IOC could take sanctions against the Austrians even without any athletes testing positive for banned substances.
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/ 22 February 2006
Life expectancy may balloon to 100 years old in rich nations thanks to scientific advances, but such progress could widen the gap between wealthy and poor nations, according to researchers. Within the next 10 years, state-of-the-art, anti-ageing technologies could — if they come into widespread use — radically start altering global demographics.
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/ 22 February 2006
Thierry Henry scored in Arsenal’s 1-0 upset win at Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday, while AC Milan ended Bayern Munich’s 15-match winning streak at home with a 1-1 draw. Europe’s top club competition resumed after a two-and-a-half month break this week with the first leg of the opening knockout round.
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/ 22 February 2006
Czech-born tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who swept up almost every title, everywhere during her long illustrious career will fill a big gap in May when she competes at her first professional tournament in her home country. Czech fans will have a chance to witness the popular, homegrown sporting star when she competes in a WTA doubles events in Prague from May 8-14.
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/ 22 February 2006
Police in the Zimbabwean capital Harare arrested 43 demonstrators who tried to march to President Robert Mugabe’s offices on his birthday to demand a new Constitution. The 43, all members of the National Constitutional Assembly, were late on Tuesday being detained at Harare Central police station.
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/ 22 February 2006
United States speedskaters Chad Hedrick and Shani Davis have revealed the full enmity of their bitter feud, a rivalry that helped cost them Olympic 1 500m gold. Italy’s Enrico Fabris won in one minute, 45,97 seconds on Tuesday, beating 1 000m Olympic champion Davis by ,16 of a second with 1 500m world record-holder Hedrick third in 1.46,22.
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/ 22 February 2006
South African Oscar-winner Charlize Theron will return to the Academy Awards stage next month to present one of the coveted golden Oscar statuettes, organisers announced on Tuesday. The ice-blond beauty (30) who won the best actress statuette for 2003’s Monster, in which she played a serial killer, is nominated again this year for her leading role as a female miner in North Country.
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/ 22 February 2006
A highly sensitive operation appeared to be under way on Tuesday night to secure the surrender and transfer to The Hague of General Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serbian war commander who is Europe’s most wanted war crimes suspect. A flurry of confusing and contradictory reports left it unclear as to the whereabouts and condition of the 63-year-old, wanted on charges of genocide by the international war crimes tribunal.
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/ 22 February 2006
Power utility Eskom on Tuesday backed away from assurances given the day before that power supply to the Western Cape would be fully restored by mid-week. The assurance was given by Eskom chief executive Thulani Gcabashe during a meeting with the Minerals and Energy as well as Public Enterprises departments to discuss the recent power outages.
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/ 22 February 2006
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They resemble scenes from another era: angry crowds, clashes with police, shots, teargas and petrol bombs. Twelve years after apartheid ended, some townships are again burning. This time the target is not a racist white regime but the African National Congress, the liberation movement which swept to power in 1994 on a wave of euphoria and the promise of a better life for all.