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/ 15 February 2008
Fifa president Sepp Blatter has opposed plans by the Premier League to play matches abroad and warned that the proposal could harm England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup. ”This is abuse. The rich Premier League is trying to get richer and wants to expand the importance of that league,” Blatter told the BBC.
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/ 15 February 2008
John McCain’s hold on the Republican nomination tightened on Thursday when he received the unexpected endorsement of his previously bitter rival, Mitt Romney. With the party closing ranks ready for November’s presidential election, Romney put aside his political and personal differences to back McCain.
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/ 15 February 2008
First things first: the best team won. Many, including myself, dismissed Egypt’s chances of defending their crown because of a ropey qualifying campaign and because they lost a number of important players from their 2006 squad. But the Pharaohs showed that their domestic league continues to cultivate quality footballers.
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/ 15 February 2008
South African rugby will enjoy an auspicious season this year. We begin the year as the envy of the rugby-playing nations, champions of both the world and the Super 14. Even the internecine wrangling for power in the South African Rugby Union (Saru) has failed to dim that envy.
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/ 15 February 2008
To the long list of people who would urge Norman Arendse rather to spend his considerable energies on saving the Bengal Tiger from a fate worse than the aphrodisiacs industry, add a frustrated woman. ”I’m so unpopular with my wife right now,” Arendse said this week in a brief aside from South African cricket’s affairs of state.
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/ 15 February 2008
United States President George Bush cited the London July 7 bombings in an interview broadcast on Thursday night to justify his support for waterboarding, an interrogation technique widely regarded as torture. In an interview with the BBC he said information obtained from alleged terrorists helped save lives
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/ 15 February 2008
A black-clad man fired into a lecture hall packed with students at an Illinois university on Thursday, killing five people and wounding 18 before shooting himself dead, police and college officials said. The gunman stepped onto the lecturer’s stage near the end of a mid-afternoon geology class at Northern Illinois University and began shooting down the room.
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/ 15 February 2008
Art collectors opened their wallets on Thursday and shelled out ,6-million at a Valentine’s Day charity auction spearheaded by rocker Bono and British artist Damien Hirst to benefit the fight against HIV/Aids in Africa. Spirited bidding and prices far in excess of pre-sale estimates marked ”The (Red) Auction” at Sotheby’s, where all but one of the 83 contemporary works found buyers.
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/ 15 February 2008
Kenya’s ethnic bloodshed has scared away hundreds of thousands of tourists. Nairobi’s seedy nightclubs think they know just how to bring them back. Curvaceous Kenyan women in skimpy outfits slowly, and then rapidly, gyrate to Egyptian tunes during belly-dancing theme night at the Casablanca club.
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/ 15 February 2008
As with other electricity users in this country, I pay a levy on my usage to fund demand side management (DSM) programmes, intended to reduce overall Âelectricity consumption. I was keen to get some of this money back in the form of the new incentive or subsidy available via Eskom to promote the use of solar water heaters, writes Kevin Davie.