Manager Jose Mourinho paid tribute to Côte d’Ivoire striker Didier Drogba on the eve of Chelsea’s Champions League quarterfinal second leg in Valencia. ”He’s more than a goalscorer, he’s the kind of player who even if he doesn’t score still makes an important contribution,” Mourinho told a news conference on Monday.
A slender delicately-perfumed white orchid unique to Madagascar is the pick of the French cosmetics industry to symbolise its new commitment to biodiversity and sustainable development. Angraecum eburneum longicalcar had all but disappeared from its natural habitat, but will now be grown in Madagascar and exported to France.
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Pakistan’s Inzamam-ul-Haq has said the World Cup would have been halted anywhere else in the world other than the Caribbean after the suspected murder there of coach Bob Woolmer. Inzamam also suggested the death of Pakistan coach Woolmer was due to a security lapse.
China’s Deputy Foreign Minister Dai Bingguo and his United States counterpart discussed promoting the continued use of political and diplomatic efforts to resolve the Darfur problem. Dai and US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte discussed the crisis in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region in a late night phone call.
South Africa’s policy of black economic empowerment (BEE) is flawed and in need of review, the country’s finance minister said in an interview published on Tuesday. Speaking to the Financial Times, Trevor Manuel said that the legislation, clarified two years ago, had been abused.
George B is not even sure of his own surname. It’s not written down anywhere that he knows of because in the eyes of the Zimbabwean state he does not exist. The 27-year-old Bulawayo street trader was made a non-person as a small boy on the day that Robert Mugabe’s troops killed his parents, just two of about 20 000 men and women slaughtered by the Zimbabwean army.
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New Zealand joined defending champions Australia on eight points at the top of the World Cup Super Eights standings after beating Ireland by 129 runs on Monday. New Zealand racked up 263-8 after a late innings rally of 45 runs from the last three overs, following Peter Fulton’s top score 83.
Wrapped in the Iraqi flag and chanting anti-American slogans, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shia snaked into the holy city of Najaf on Monday for a protest rally to mark the fourth anniversary of the toppling of Saddam Hussein and to demand the ejection from Iraq of United States and British troops.
Property owners will be relieved to know that there has been a pick-up in property activity over the past quarter, according to the latest FNB residential property barometer. The index, which gauges property activity through 150 property agents, has been declining since the second quarter of last year as a direct result of interest rate hikes last year.
Tumi is a sassy, switched on woman who is taking steps to ensure her financial future. She has been focusing on getting debts under control, but now she wants to upgrade her car. This month, Thereza de Quintal, business development manager of Sanlam Financial Advisers, explains the financial implications to Tumi.