Andre Agassi is trying not to let emotions get the better of him as he plays his 14th — and final — Wimbledon. ”I don’t need this championship to give me any more than it’s given me,” the 36-year-old former champion said after a four-set opening-round victory on Tuesday. ”It’s already given me so much.”
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Traditional soccer powers from Europe and South America are back on top and the rest of the world has fallen short. Four years ago, half of the quarterfinalists at the World Cup were from nations with no history of major soccer success. Turkey, South Korea, Senegal and the United States gave the tournament a truly global look and two of them made it to the semifinals.
Zimbabwe’s labour movement on Tuesday said it is finalising plans for nationwide protests to press for realistic wages, stoking up tensions in a country already on knife edge because of a deepening economic and political crisis. Zimbabwe’s economy is on a free fall, with inflation pegged at 1 193,5%.
An armed man was killed and a police reservist wounded in another shoot-out between police and men who allegedly held up two fast food outlets in Fordsburg, police said on Wednesday. This follows a shoot-out in Jeppestown on Sunday in which four police officers and eight susepcts were killed.
The city of Cape Town is to institute claims against the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) for damage caused during the union’s protest march last month, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. Pieter Cronje said 248 people had reported personal injuries and damage to their property totalling R1,15-million.
The Israeli army entered southern Gaza on Wednesday after threatening a major offensive to try to secure the release of an Israeli soldier taken hostage by Palestinian militants. Tanks and soldiers began taking up positions in two locations east of the town of Rafah under the cover of tank shells.
Despite what the do-gooders and nanny-state mentalists would have us believe, we’re not all the same. Some of us want bland cars that can carry a family of five with two weeks’ worth of luggage, and run on the sniff of an oil rag for 30 years without much in the way of servicing, while others will take performance over functionality every day of the week.
Margaret Beckett, Britain’s first female Foreign Secretary, revealed on Wednesday that she uttered a rather undiplomatic swear word when Prime Minister Tony Blair offered her the job last month. Pressed on whether the word began with "f" or "s", she admitted it was an "f".
”By doing art and writing, you can look at situations in a more objective way.” Phil Forder, writer-in-residence at Her Majesty’s Prison Parc, a privately run Category B prison in south Wales that holds nearly 1 000 adult prisoners and young offenders, is explaining the benefits he believes his work is bringing to the prison’s residents.
From a distance the object bobbing in the bay looked like a coconut or a buoy, but when it was washed up on the beach it proved to be a human head. ”It wasn’t pretty,” said Jose Vargas, who joined the crowd that had gathered. He was shocked but not surprised by the sight. ”This kind of thing happens in Acapulco these days.”