Rafael Nadal beat Tomas Berdych 7-6 6-4 6-2 to reach the Wimbledon semifinals on Friday. The players had trouble adjusting to the wind on Centre Court in the opening games with number two seed Nadal breaking Berdych’s serve in the second and the Czech, seeded seventh, breaking back immediately.
Photographs of soldiers’ garments show the contradictions of war, writes Tanya Farber.
Two ”countdown clocks” to the 2010 Soccer World Cup were switched on at Durban International Airport on Friday, a sponsor said. ”The clocks are counting us down to our deadline and bringing us together to unveil our beautiful city to the rest of the world,” said First National Bank’s KwaZulu-Natal chief, Gareth Davies.
Hundreds of President Robert Mugabe’s supporters marched through Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, on Friday in support of an official price freeze introduced to curb the world’s highest inflation rate of over 4Â 500%. The march was planned ahead of a ruling Zanu-PF party meeting to adopt tougher measures against firms defying the freeze.
Global warming is radically changing the face of Mount Everest, the sons of the men who first reached its summit 54 years ago said in an interview published on Friday. The sons of Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay told British newspaper the <i>Independent</i> that their fathers would no longer recognise the world’s highest mountain.
South Africans have every reason to be concerned about the latest crime-trends report, says Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille. ”There can be no doubt, however much government’s office-bearers try to play them down, that the statistics portray a society in which crime is endemic, violent and unrelenting,” she said on Friday on the DA’s website.
Team South Africa leave on Saturday to compete in the All Africa Games in Algiers from July 11 to 23. The All Africa Games contribute to the promotion of the Olympic spirit and stand as a major rendezvous for African athletes. These Games are a milestone in the preparation of the Olympic Games as they are an opportunity for the continent’s athletes to express their potential.
Britain said on Friday it was "getting to the bottom" of a militant cell behind last week’s failed attacks, amid tight security ahead of the anniversary of London’s July 2005 suicide bombings. The cautiously upbeat assessment came after Australian police searched two hospitals and questioned five doctors over the London and Glasgow attacks.
Not long ago it was French football great Zinedine Zidane who was the focus of their bid for celebrity — and a few laughs. Now, it is the peloton of the Tour de France — and their notorious links with the banned blood booster EPO (erythropoietin) — which is the subject of musical group La Plage’s latest offering.
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Mexican writer-director Guillermo del Toro’s <i>Pan’s Labyrinth</i> has arrived in South Africa at last, writes Shaun de Waal.