Wallabies coach Eddie Jones has warned England against employing off-the-ball tactics to unsettle his players in their World Cup final rematch in Brisbane on Saturday. The verbal jousting between Jones and English counterpart Clive Woodward kicked off on Monday ahead of their much-anticipated confrontation at Lang Park.

Bulgaria may be just the opponent Italy needs in its final group match. The ”Azzurri” are hobbling with injuries and hampered by suspensions, bans and squabbles with the media heading into Tuesday’s game in Guimaraes. But even without star playmaker Francesco Totti, captain and defender Fabio Cannavaro and midfielders Gennaro Gattuso and Cristiano Zanetti, Italy is a big favourite.

A third of Africans feel worse off this year than last — and half feel the world is going in the wrong direction, according to a survey of nearly 8 000 Africans published last week. The survey shows that Africans feel their countries are not run by the will of the people, have more trust in their churches and religious leaders, and hold their governments accountable for solving their most important national problems.

Bill Clinton spent his youth as a fat, miserable boy and endured a childhood beset by violence and abuse. And his infamous affair with young White House intern Monica Lewinsky was caused by ‘old demons’ from his youth that have haunted him all his life, the former President reveals in copies of his long-awaited autobiography, My Life, that began circulating on Saturday, two days before the official publication date.

Kenyan journalist Peter Murimi was named winner of the CNN journalist of the year award in Johannesburg on Saturday, the United States broadcaster announced on Sunday. Murimi, who works for the Camerapix agency in Kenya, was chosen from 465 entrants from 30 countries across Africa for his story, ”Walk to Womanhood”.

It is Europe’s longest-running cultural heritage dispute, yet the row over the rightful home of the Elgin Marbles is still so hotly contested it will almost qualify as an Olympic sport in Athens this summer. Undiplomatic comments made by a British archaeologist in a new BBC documentary on the subject will now take the temperature of debate still higher.

A United States F-16 jet fired missiles into a residential area in the flashpoint Sunni city of Fallujah on Saturday, killing at least 22 members of one extended family. A US spokesperson said the aircraft had been targeting a safe house belonging to the terrorist network run by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian directing a suicide bombing campaign against coalition forces in the new Iraqi security organisations.

Scientists have voted to boycott an international journal after its owners blocked publication of a paper claiming large numbers of IBM workers have died prematurely of cancers and other diseases. The development is unprecedented and has triggered a battle between the computer company and researchers.

A clever and daring underground movement has sprung up in Zimbabwe that is stoking public opinion against Robert Mugabe’s government. Zvakwana — which means ‘enough’ in the Shona language — has launched a bold campaign expressed through graffiti, e-mails and condoms to encourage the Zimbabwean people to rise up.