Eritrea on Friday strongly denied allegations it is massing troops along its border with Sudan, rejecting as ”groundless” reported statements to that effect made by a Sudanese official. ”It’s a groundless accusation, a total fabrication,” said Yemane Gebremeskel, director of Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki’s office.
Discarded All Black Nick Evans scored a try and sharpened the attacking edge of the Otago Highlanders, who beat South Africa’s Bulls 23-0 on Friday in a Super 12 rugby match at Carisbrook. Evans returned from injury to play at flyhalf for the Highlanders and made a huge impression in a 58-minute stay before a further injury forced him from the field.
There are taxis and there are taxes. I’m sure that if we were given a choice, most of us would choose taxis, writes Mike van Graan. But we must all do our bit to keep our society functioning, like paying police to catch criminals.
Five years after the Nasdaq index peaked at 5132,52 on 10 March 2000, the Nasdaq is still 60% below this "irrational exuberance" peak as it closed at 2059,72 on 10 March 2005. All the prayers, hopes, media hype and entreaties of the average United States investor and many politicians seem to have had absolutely no effect on the relentless slide of the Nasdaq.
President Thabo Mbeki has recommended that Deputy Chief Justice Pius Langa succeed Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson when he steps down, his office said on Friday. In February, Chaskalson asked that he be allowed to leave his post at the end of May.
Jailed Zimbabwean opposition lawmaker Roy Bennett on Thursday lost a court bid to win his release on the eve of this month’s parliamentary elections. Bennett, one of three white Zimbabweans who hold seats in Parliament, is serving a one-year prison term for shoving the justice minister during a heated debate in Parliament.
Chelsea were on an emotional peak at the close of the win over Barcelona but Jose Mourinho is still in the foothills of his mission in England. The manager has said as much before when predicting that the best of his team will not be seen until his third year at Stamford Bridge. Tuesday brought one of the most memorable nights in the club’s history but it also showed just what Mourinho meant.
Any discussion of Birmingham City and their trophy-less fans starts on the basis of sympathy. This is only partly to do with Steve Bruce’s current failure to produce in the Blues any kind of high-powered Premiership resurrection. It has do to with their accent (think Nigell Mansell) and their city, a huge concrete jungle that is essentially Dullsville UK.
Olympic inspectors visiting Paris were among a lucky minority able to move freely around the French capital on Thursday as public sector workers brought the country grinding to a halt, severely disrupting buses, trains and flights, shutting schools and leaving papers undelivered and radio stations silent.
A pair of spectacles, a set of keys, a student card, a watch, a few euros, a single grey trainer. Rita Betancourt removes the objects delicately from a small green box and places them on the table of the immaculate suburban home where she and her husband, Luis Tenesaca, now live alone.