Australian spin legend Shane Warne said on Wednesday he was ”happily retired’ from Test cricket and had no intention of staging a dramatic comeback.
Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson was chosen as the new coach of the Mexican national team on Tuesday, becoming the ninth foreigner to hold the post and seventh from Europe.
There is probably a good reason Ernest Hemingway is known for his novels, short stories and journalism rather than his poetry, and it can be found in a remarkable first edition of his first American book. Clearly, he was not a great poet. Hemingway scribbled two poems — unpublishable at the time because of their rudeness — in the 1925 first edition of In Our Time.
You may not have heard of Dov Charney, but his empire is taking over the world. American Apparel, the company he founded in 1997, now employs more than 6 700 people, and has 187 stores in 15 countries. He has just been sued by an employee called Jeneleen Floyd who alleges that, in the course of a telling-off, he ordered her to pretend to masturbate in front of him.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, whose 28-year rule has brought widespread hunger to his country, on Tuesday defended the seizure of land from white farmers, saying he is undoing a legacy of Zimbabwe’s former colonial masters. Mugabe spoke to world leaders at a United Nations summit on the global food crisis against a backdrop of sharp criticism over his participation.
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board on Tuesday condemned seven members of the broadcaster’s executive for signing a petition calling for it to resign. Board chairperson Khanyisile Mkhonza said they considered the petition mischievous and divisive.
Chad have been thrown out of the African Nations Cup after African soccer’s governing body blamed them for causing an unnecessary postponement of their World Cup qualifier against neighbours Sudan last weekend.
Doctors who carried out surgery on a Japanese man to remove a "tumour" had good news and bad news for him. He did not have cancer — but the "growth" that had been causing him pain was in fact a 25-year-old surgical towel.
After making history by capturing the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama turns on Wednesday to the task of unifying a fractured party for a five-month battle for the White House with Republican John McCain. The Illinois senator on Tuesday locked up the 2Â 118 delegates he needs for victory at the August convention.
President Thabo Mbeki on Tuesday denied reports that the South African government had been warned of the prospect of xenophobic attacks by the National Intelligence Agency. ”There was no such intelligence reports — they certainly did not come to me,” he said.