Roger Federer’s bid for a fourth successive Wimbledon title got off to a whirlwind start on Monday only to be stalled by the fickle London weather. Only 35 minutes of play were possible on centre court while none of the 64 scheduled first-round matches were completed.
The trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein on charges including genocide for a brutal campaign against Kurds in the 1980s, which left 100Â 000 people dead, was set down on Tuesday for August 21. The court had announced in April that Saddam and six co-defendants, including Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as Chemical Ali, would face genocide charges.
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Ukraine toasted its hero footballers on Tuesday after the team defied expectations to secure a place in the World Cup quarterfinals by beating Switzerland 3-0 in a penalty shootout. ”We’re in the quarterfinals!” screamed the headline of one Kiev daily.
The JSE was in negative territory in noon trade on Tuesday with a recovery in the rand sparking profit taking in stocks that benefited from the currency’s weakness in recent days. Banks, which were hit hard by concerns about the interest rate implications of the rand’s weakness, led the market’s upside.
South Africa’s Department of Health was "not considering" paying compensation to the families of four deceased children who died at the Cecilia Makiwane hospital in East London recently, as it was "not a deliberate action or a result of negligence", said Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang this week.
At least five people were killed on the edge of the Somali capital early on Tuesday when Islamic gunmen attacked positions held by fighters loyal to a warlord. In addition to the deaths, at least six people were wounded in the battles, the first clashes around the city since Islamists seized control of Mogadishu earlier this month from a United States-backed warlord alliance.
The court appearance of the 11 men arrested after a bloody shoot-out with police in Jeppestown on Sunday has been brought forward to Tuesday, Gauteng police said. The men were initially scheduled to appear in the Roodepoort Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, but the date was changed around 9am on Tuesday, said police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Mary Martins-Engelbrecht.
Hard-line Muslims in southern India have launched a campaign to dissuade youths from watching too much World Cup action, saying they had "gone mad" over football. "Wherever you go, you see [youths] wearing jerseys of various teams. It’s like idol worship, which our religion doesn’t promote in any form," said Sattar Pathallur, secretary of the Sunni Students Federation.
After the SABC banned an Afrikaans loveLife advert in 2002 because it featured Pieter-Dirk Uys using the word <i>naai</i> (fuck), an unexpected visitor turned up in the West Coast town of Darling. Said Uys: "The window of the car rolled down — it was Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane on his way to a congregation on the West Coast."
Fatty hamburgers, sugar-laden sodas and a couch-potato lifestyle: these are the familiar villains in the crisis of obesity sweeping developed countries. But what if they had been convicted without fair trial? What if the global fat explosion had other causes?