Italian Emanuele Pirro and German duo Frank Biela and Marco Werner drove Audi to an historic victory in the Le Mans 24 hour race on Sunday. The Audi R10 finished four laps ahead of the Pescarolo driven by France’s Franck Montagny, world rally champion Sebastien Loeb and Eric Helary, to become the first diesel-powered car to win the famous endurance race.
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England have vowed to end their 38-year winless streak against Sweden in Cologne on Tuesday — even if the reward is a World Cup second-round showdown with host nation Germany. Fixture scheduling has left England heading into their final Group B match with the identity of their last 16 opponents in their own hands.
The national open-water swimming squad dominated proceedings at the French Cup event in Lodeve on Sunday. Once again the trio of Shaun Dias, Kenneth Smith and the promising Chad Ho produced an impressive performance that must augur well for the discipline in the future.
The Islamic alliance in control of key areas of Somalia on Monday urged world powers to pressure Ethiopia to withdraw troops from Somali territory, saying it would spawn more bloodshed in the Horn of Africa nation. Islamic clerics said several hundred Ethiopian troops had crossed into Somalia over the weekend.
An oil and gold-encrusted portrait by Gustav Klimt that was the focus of a battle between the Austrian government and the subject’s niece was purchased for a record-setting amount by a New York museum, an attorney said. The New York Times, citing experts familiar with the negotiations, reported the portrait sold for -million.
Zimbabwe’s long-term economic survival prospects look dimmer by the day with analysts warning that the government’s mortgaging of the country’s minerals to Asians is sure to lead to more troubles in the future for the world’s fastest-shrinking economy.
While senior managers express real anxiety about bribery and corruption in their emerging-market operations, many are still not taking the threat seriously enough. Robust business ethics, backed up by proper control processes, have to be ingrained into local operations, and not just comprise an extension of head-office culture.
About 200 displaced white farmers from Mashonaland West province have turned down an offer of farms by the government, saying there was no guarantee the government would not in future turn back on the offer and evict them again, reports <i>ZimOnline</i>.
The 21-year-old student who allegedly tried to force his way into the cockpit of a South African Airways (SAA) aircraft with a hypodermic needle on a flight from Cape Town on Saturday is to appear in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate’s court on Monday, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported.
Tourists to the Great Wall of China more often than not get a decidedly modern view of the ancient structure, walking along stretches rebuilt and repaved to handle millions of visitors every year. But a battle-scarred section in the historic garrison town of Zhangjiakou, 180km north-west of Beijing, is one of the first to allow visitors to walk next to the ancient edifice in its natural state.