If Wayne Rooney’s latest injury has got England fans worried, the use of new, lightweight football boots by some of the world’s top players could start alarm bells ringing. Four years after David Beckham’s foot injury first brought the words ”metatarsal bone” into common parlance, Rooney is facing the same injury agony as the England captain ahead of the 2002 finals.
South African captain Graeme Smith said on Monday that New Zealand’s decision to bat into the third day took the possibility of South Africa playing positive cricket away from them. Smith was speaking to journalists after the second Castle Lager Test at Newlands ended in a draw.
The MTN Group and Investcom on Tuesday announced a landmark deal to create the pre-eminent mobile operator in the emerging markets of Africa and the Middle East. The transaction will build on the complementary strengths of each company to create a leader in the emerging-market telecommunications arena.
Darfur rebels have bickered among themselves, violated a ceasefire and even been accused of attacking peacekeepers. Now they risk being seen as standing in the way of a peace agreement before a deadline on Tuesday at midnight.
The beleaguered French Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, on Tuesday faces tough questioning in Parliament over his alleged role in a bogus corruption scandal dubbed French Watergate as opposition politicians questioned whether he could stay in office and called for early elections.
Israel’s new government will be sworn in this week after the Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, finally named a pragmatic coalition line-up on Monday designed to push through a major withdrawal from West Bank settlements. The knesset will be asked to approve the government on Thursday, after Olmert drew in enough parties to the Cabinet to get the support of 67 of the Parliament’s 120 members
It has been acclaimed as the best German film of the year and nominated in 11 out of 15 categories for the German Prize, Germany’s version of the Oscars. But The Life of Others, a film about the Stasi, East Germany’s secret police, is at the centre of a row after its lead actor said he had been a Stasi victim, spied on by his own wife.
One of the biggest protests in United States history unfolded across America on Monday as more than a million demonstrators took to the streets to protest against proposals to toughen immigration law. From New York to Los Angeles and more than 50 cities in between, they streamed out in their numbers, waving US, Mexican and El Salvadorean flags.
"The new Daimler Chrysler 300C, has been winning awards left, right and centre — including the North American Car of the Year Award. In the past year I’ve driven a variety of cars, including some of the most exotic and powerful on offer, but none has attracted half as much attention as the Chrysler 300C, writes Sukasha Singh.
This is the season of freedom. On April 27 we South Africans will celebrate Freedom Day. During this same month Jews around the world celebrate Passover — the Festival of Freedom, which marks 3 318 years since their Exodus from Egypt, the greatest liberation in history, when G-d intervened directly in the course of human affairs to free an oppressed and enslaved people.