Partners wanting to tie the knot on the Thai paradise island of Phuket will have to wait a while or find another venue after the main city ran out of marriage certificates, officials said on Tuesday. An official from Muang Phuket registration department said it used its last certificate two weeks ago.
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea on Monday named Ricardo Mangue Obama Nfubea the country’s new Prime Minister and asked him to form a government, national television said. Mangue Obama Nfubea’s predecessor and the whole government of the West African state had resigned on Thursday.
Armed men on Monday kidnapped four more foreign oil workers in Nigeria’s southern oil city of Port Harcourt but released three Filipinos abducted more than 10 days ago in the latest of a series of incidents in volatile Niger Delta. ”The situation is becoming worrisome,” a River state police spokesperson said.
Sri Lanka cricket officials announced on Tuesday that the first one-day international of the triangular series with South Africa and India has been postponed. South Africa are on the verge of pulling out of the series over heightened security fears following a bomb blast in Colombo on Monday.
The Springbok team kicked off their preparations for the Vodacom Tri-Nations home leg in Johannesburg on Monday in high spirits, as they took the field to do light training exercises at Randburg’s St Stithians School. Coach Jake White said during the open session his charges are looking forward to the next half of the series.
An astute betting man would have had his money firmly on Monday’s chances of Bafana Bafana stars Benni McCarthy, Quinton Fortune and Macbeth Sibaya materialising from the very outset. McCarthy, Fortune and Sibaya have all pulled out of the South African squad for the friendly international against Namibia.
Another United States National Football League team owner — and American billionaire — is set to take over an English soccer club. Randy Lerner, who owns the Cleveland Browns, put in a £62,6-million bid on Monday to buy Aston Villa, one of the oldest clubs in English soccer.
A Japanese tanker spilled about 5,3-million litres of crude oil in the eastern Indian Ocean near the Nicobar islands following a collision with a cargo ship, the tanker’s operator announced on Tuesday. Japan’s Kyodo news service said the spill may have been the largest to date involving a Japanese tanker.
Houston, we have a problem. The Apollo 11 moon landings were one of the defining moments of the 20th century. But now the original recordings of those moments have been mislaid. The poor-quality images broadcast on television at the time were video recordings of the original film.
North Rand police on Monday arrested a man after they found human organs in a bag he was carrying at a taxi rank in Etwatwa, Benoni. ”Police officers from the Etwatwa police station … confronted a man at a taxi rank carrying a black bag,” a police spokesperson said. ”Inside they found human lungs, intestines … a brain.”