World champion Fernando Alonso won the Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday to hand new team McLaren-Mercedes their first Formula One (F1) win since 2005. Rookie Lewis Hamilton, F1’s first black driver, added to the McLaren resurgence by finishing second ahead of Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, who won the Australian Grand Prix last month.
South African President Thabo Mbeki’s mission to resolve the crisis across the border in Zimbabwe faces slim prospects of success due to deep-rooted suspicion between the protagonists, analysts say. Mbeki was entrusted with the task by fellow Southern African leaders at a summit last month.
Moroka Swallows improved their prospects of gaining the Premier Soccer League’s runners-up position and qualification for next year’s CAF Champions League after outplaying a strangely listless Bloemfontein Celtic at the Seisa Ramabodu Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
A Sudanese army truck loaded with munitions exploded on Saturday in the capital, Khartoum, where the nearby airport was closed ”as a precaution”, an airport official said. An army spokesperson said the munitions went off because of the ”shaking” of the truck, which was being driven in an area close to the army headquarters in central Khartoum.
The captain of a cruise ship that sank in the Aegean Sea has been charged with negligence, and searchers have failed to locate two missing French passengers. The Sea Diamond had been carrying 1 154 tourists and 391 crew members when it hit a reef off the volcanic Greek island of Santorini on Thursday.
Candace Bushnell gave the world Sex and the City, the global TV hit about the lives and loves of a group of sexy New York women. Now a new set of modern girls about town are about to hit United States TV screens. But Bushnell’s latest Manhattanites are a bit less carefree than the famously single Carrie and her cocktail-sipping friends.
It is the Cold War spy case that still bitterly divides the United States. The shaming of Alger Hiss as a Soviet agent who fed US secrets to Moscow casts a long shadow. But nearly 60 years after the diplomat’s fall, a leading historian claims that new evidence shows Hiss was innocent.
The economic chaos engulfing Zimbabwe has turned even a mundane task such as renting a car into an unachievable dream for the average law-abiding citizen. A car-rental company has quoted a day rate of the equivalent of a staggering R19 600 per day — plus a deposit of R712 600 — at the official exchange rate.
The Stormers effectively ended the Lions’ hopes of qualifying for the semifinals of the Super 14 when they trounced them 30-8 in a one-sided match at Newlands on Saturday. Kobus van der Merwe’s team carried a deserved 13-3 lead into the break after dominating the early exchanges and growing stronger throughout the half.
Playing in front of an empty stadium, the standard of soccer was poor in a Premier Soccer League match between Ajax Cape Town and Silver Stars at the Athlone Stadium on Saturday. Ajax dropped to fourth place on the log after they were beaten 2-1 by Silver Stars