The joint head of European Aeronautic Defence and Space (EADS) rejected on Friday suggestions he had indulged in insider trading knowing the group would announce delivery delays for the Airbus superjumbo which have slashed the value of the business.
Islamic militias secured the backing of influential clan elders overnight to set up a new system of governance for swathes of southern Somalia, which the Islamists now control, an elder said on Friday. Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the head of the Joint Islamic Courts militia, sealed a deal with the traditional community leaders in Jowhar.
Tim Cahill and Lucas Neill shunned the in-flight movies on the Socceroos’ 24-hour flight from Melbourne to their training camp near Eindhoven before the World Cup. Instead, the Everton midfielder played computer football games with his long-time friend, the Blackburn Rovers defender.
When Joe Cole shook hands with Shaka Hislop before the kick-off in Nuremberg on Thursday he thought back to the time, getting on for a decade ago, when they were teammates at Upton Park and the Trinidad & Tobago goalkeeper, already an experienced professional, helped to ease the English prodigy’s youthful anxieties.
Rugby, it seems, is continually in the wars, if not for misadministration then for poor results. The latest piece of idiocy presented itself in the form of the meeting between the South African administrators and MPs. In our second decade since the unification of sporting codes and our shiny new democracy, the progress made in racial integration in the sport is shameful.
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The World Cup makes us at the United Nations green with envy. As the pinnacle of the only truly global game, played in every country by every race and religion, it is one of the few phenomena as universal as the UN. You could say it’s more universal. Fifa has 207 members, we have only 191. But there are better reasons for our envy.
Lloyd Gedye talks to My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James about ditching Kentucky for the Big Apple.
Of all the forms of doping in sports, perhaps none is more vampirish than athletes siphoning, storing and transfusing their own blood. A pint here, a pint there. Packed with red blood cells that carry oxygen to tired muscles, a back-alley transfusion can add a spring to the step of a World Cup soccer player or help a Tour de France cyclist ascend steep mountain passes.
South Africa on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the Soweto uprising, one of the bloodiest chapters of apartheid, amid renewed debate over whether whites should own up to the atrocities of the former regime. Hundreds of black youths died at the hands of police in Soweto during protests against the enforced use of Afrikaans in schools that began on June 16 1976.
Against a tide of criticism and a government application for his incarceration, the lawyer for deported Pakistani national Khalid Rashid is persisting in his bid to have Rashid’s disappearance declared a crime against humanity in South African and international courts.