Celebrities Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, who have catapulted sleepy Namibia to overnight international fame, plan to have their baby in the Southern African nation and even give it a local name, according to a South African newspaper. The couple are reportedly staying at the luxury Burning Shores resort hotel between the scenic old colonial German town of Swakopmond.
India’s Jeev Mikkha Singh claimed his maiden European Tour victory in Beijing on Sunday, winning the ,8-million China Open by one shot over Spain’s Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano. The 34-year-old Indian carded a two-under par 70 around the Nick Faldo-designed course at Beijing’s Honghua International Golf Club, to finish at 10 under par for the tournament.
A four-try comeback by the Wellington Hurricanes in the second half turned around a half-time deficit to ensure a 29-13 victory against the Otago Highlanders in Dunedin on Sunday. The Hurricanes cemented their position near the top of the Super 14 table with their seventh win from nine games this season, although the five try to two win was not one of their more memorable performances.
New Zealand took less than half an hour on Sunday morning to wrap up South Africa’s first innings in the first Castle Lager Test at Supersport Park. South Africa were all out for 276. Resuming on 266 for eight, Nicky Boje and Dale Steyn shared a partnership of 41 runs — the highest ninth wicket partnership for South Africa at Supersport Park, passing the 37 runs put on by Hansie Cronje and Allan Donald against Australia in 1996/97.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma visited Libya just 12 days after being arrested on a rape charge, The Sunday Times newspaper reported. The report said Zuma was in Tripoli for five days where he met with Libyan President Moammar Gaddafi. It said there was no clarity on whether the trip was of a personal nature or if it was linked to a fundraising campaign.
Jose Mourinho has warned that the Premiership title race is not yet over, despite Chelsea establishing a commanding nine-point advantage over second-placed Manchester United with just four games remaining. The combined effects of Chelsea’s comfortable two-goal victory over Bolton Wanderers and Manchester United’s inability to beat bottom club Sunderland mean the Premiership trophy will almost certainly remain at Stamford Bridge.
She lives in splendid palaces with servants forever at her beck and call, and meets thousands of people every year, but in her private life, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II leads a reclusive, solitary, sometimes ordinary life. During a regular day at Buckingham Palace, her official London residence, Queen Elizabeth is woken at 7.30am by a chambermaid who brings in her tea tray.
Tensions between Chad and Sudan rose further on Saturday following a rebel attack that observers say could yet lead to the fall of Chadian President Idriss Déby. In the Chadian capital N’djamena, Déby accused his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Beshir of ”genocide” in the west Sudanese region of Darfur and branded him a ”traitor”, a day after severing diplomatic ties with Khartoum.
It would seem, to Middle Eastern eyes scanning the latest headlines online on Saturday, yet further evidence of secret plans for the conflict that everyone is now dreading. Britain, it was suggested, had taken part in an American war game that simulated an invasion of Iran, in an apparent mockery of both countries’ insistence that they want a diplomatic — not a military — solution to the Iranian nuclear crisis.
It is fast-growing, drought-resistant and sprawls over hectares of land in Kenya’s arid regions, providing fuel and furniture material for thousands of impoverished herders and farmers. But once hailed as a miracle cure for land degradation and desertification, the rapidly spreading prosopis tree has become an environmental menace that many wish had never been introduced to the East African nation.