The FA Cup final, one of the landmark events in the global sporting year, finally returns home to Wembley Stadium on Saturday after a seven-year absence. Although a few matches have been played there, the stadium officially opens its doors for the first time when Manchester United meet Chelsea in the final for the second time in 13 years.
Even with increased awareness about global warming produced by carbon emissions and the high price of gasoline, the United States’s masses may not be ready to jump on the electric vehicle. ” 000 is a lot of money for a limited-function vehicle,” said Ron Cogan, editor of Green Car Journal.
Last year, Chilean-born artist Marco Evaristti mixed fat removed from his body by liposuction with ground beef to make meatballs, which he fried in olive oil and displayed in a public gallery. This year, he plans to climb Western Europe’s highest mountain colour the summit pink and declare it an independent state, with himself as president.
With the South African economy expected to continue to grow slightly above potential this year, underlying inflationary pressures persist and the risk of higher rates remains skewed to the upside, say leading global economic analysts Moody’s Economy.com.
Algeria’s governing coalition won an overall majority in parliamentary elections marked by poor turnout, keeping control of a body many in this North African country see as subservient to the powerful executive. The poll was the third legislative election since an Islamist revolt erupted after the cancellation of a national election in January 1992.
South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has not been approached as a possible successor to outgoing World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, a spokesperson for Manuel said on Friday. Manuel, who has steered South Africa’s vibrant economy for the past 11 years, is among those touted as possible candidates to take over from Wolfowitz.
The United Nations human rights office on Friday accused Sudanese security forces of killing more than 100 people in indiscriminate machine-gun attacks on villages in South Darfur over a three-month period. At least 200Â 000 people have been killed and more than two million displaced since 2003 in an ethnic and political conflict.
About 100 000 tonnes of coal has failed to reach the Richards Bay Coal Terminal, after a computer failure on Wednesday night that blocked trains from being loaded at mines. Spoornet spokesperson Mike Asefovitz said the glitch was fixed on Thursday afternoon but a backlog of undelivered coal has built up.
Sri Lankan troops killed nearly 40 Tamil Tiger rebels over the past week, the military said on Friday, after a spate of clashes in the island’s war-ravaged north and east. ”There have been several confrontations. There are 38 confirmed dead in the past week, but we think the number could be higher,” said military spokesperson Prasad Samarasinghe.
Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour has defended the former national commissioner of the Correctional Services Department, Linda Mti, saying allegations of improper conduct against him should be rejected. Speaking during the department’s budget vote debate in the National Assembly on Friday, Balfour said the allegations against Mti were unfounded.