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A hearty rendition of O Sole Mio was booming out in Italy’s dressing room when Prime Minister Romano Prodi came to congratulate the team on beating Germany. ”Even he joined in,” Fabio Cannavaro said. ”It was great.” For Cannavaro, hearing that Neapolitan ditty being sung joyously was particularly special.
One of the many and varied tragedies about the turbulent Saturday night we all endured is that we will now never know what it would feel like to walk down Sven-Goran Eriksson Street. Had the outgoing England manager persuaded football to come home as he had promised he would, the relevant municipal authorities may well have granted him this honour.
Authorities released nearly 1 000 pages of new documents from the Columbine High School massacre, including step-by-step plans written by the two killers as they gleefully plotted the deadliest school shooting in United States history.
The FF Plus said on Thursday that it would ask Finance Minister Trevor Manuel to investigate the constitutionality of an intended provincial fuel levy. The party’s minerals and energy spokesperson, Willie Spies, said he would ask Manuel to investigate whether the planned fuel levy for the Western Cape would be justifiable in terms of Section 228(2) of the Constitution.
As government soldiers dozed in the abandoned market stalls and excited United Nations peacekeepers celebrated reaching the town of Tchei in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a handful of civilians squatted in a mud hut. The dozen or so — those too old, young or ill to flee — were being kept under close guard and were all that was left of the population of 10 000 who lived in Tchei before the attack.
The Socceroos may have been eliminated from the World Cup by Italy but an Adelaide brewer says fans can console themselves with the fact that an Aussie ale has won a "beer world cup". Coopers Brewery said it won a drink-off organised by British industry magazine <i>Off Licence News</i> involving, where possible, a representative beer from each of the 32 World Cup nations.
Britain will fall silent on Friday to remember the 52 people who died and hundreds more who were injured when four suicide bombers blew themselves up on London’s public transport system exactly a year ago. A day-long series of prayers and commemorative events has been planned to pay tribute to those who lost their lives.
It would have been the most expensive bottle of soft drink in history. A secretary at Coca-Cola’s global headquarters has been arrested for stealing a phial of a secret new product, hiding it in a brown Armani bag and attempting to sell it for ,5-million to the world’s second biggest cola maker, Pepsi.
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This World Cup, which was expected to provide a festival of youth, has turned into a celebration of experience. While Kaka faded, Lionel Messi was deprived of his rightful chance and Wayne Rooney simply self-destructed, the old men grabbed the stage for a final parade of their talents.
One year after it came into being, Walter Sisulu University (WSU) is facing financial disaster. This follows the recent award of a staff salary increase for which the university has no budget. Documents in the possession of the Mail & Guardian show that WSU management, headed by interim vice-chancellor Nicky Morgan, strongly opposed any increase.