Street credibility is important to have if you want to turn heads and impress with your car. It is defined by how fast your car goes, how well it handles and, most importantly, how good it looks. Of course, in reality, acquiring street cred means that you have to spend many tedious hours either modifying your car yourself, as most die-hard petrol-heads do, or you can buy a car that comes equipped with everything you need. The Ford Focus ST is that car.
The King is dead — long live the King! Nah — that’s not really true. The Camry never was King in this country. It was a big car that often didn’t match the specification levels of its rivals, and it lacked something in the desirability stakes, so it never sold in huge numbers here.
Andre Agassi’s retirement will have to wait a little longer after the eight-times grand slam winner battled to a 6-7 7-6 7-6 6-2 victory over Romania’s Andrei Pavel in the US Open first round on Monday. At times looking like a maestro and others like the 36-year-old he is, Agassi needed three hours and 31 minutes to clinch victory.
United States Vice-President Dick Cheney, seizing on Democratic calls to pull troops out of Iraq, on Monday linked early withdrawal to the possibility of terrorist attacks in the United States. As Cheney and President George Bush try to help Republicans keep control of the US Congress on November 7, polls show public support for the war ebbing.
A separatist group on Monday warned tourists to stay away from Turkey after a wave of bomb blasts killed three people and injured dozens. The Kurdistan Freedom Falcons claimed responsibility for four of the five bombs and warned on its website: ”Turkey is not a safe country; tourists should not come to Turkey.”
Pakistan have asked the International Cricket Council (ICC) to hold an inquiry into umpire Darrell Hair’s conduct in the Oval Test before captain Inzamam-ul-Haq’s disciplinary hearing. After the cancellation of the ICC board meeting in Dubai on September 2, the Pakistan Cricket Board has written a letter demanding an urgent investigation into Australian Hair’s conduct during the fiasco.
An elderly blind man who allegedly stole about R4-million with his wife held up proceedings in the Pretoria Commercial Crime Court on Monday because he was drunk. Magistrate Desmond Nair postponed proceedings until after lunch in order for Petrus Engelbrecht (60) to sober up.
The Austrian teenager who spent more than eight years imprisoned in a dingy underground cell until her escape last week on Monday spoke fondly of the man who kidnapped her, describing him as ”part of my life”. Natascha Kampusch (18) said that she was now ”mourning” her 44-year-old kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil, who killed himself hours after her escape from his Vienna home.
A headline in one of the country’s largest newspapers a few weeks back told us that five of the members of the African National Congress’s national executive committee have amassed R1,5-billion from empowerment wheeling and dealing. The <I>Sunday Times</I> based its story on the publication of its annual Rich List, which calculates the wealth of leading South Africans based on their shareholdings in JSE-listed companies.
The owner of historic Greek basketball club AEK Athens, winners of the 1968 European Cup, has put the team on sale for €1, the club announced this week. "Those interested in taking over the club’s shares for the price of €1 should contact [our] legal counsel," AEK said in a statement.