Conservatives who charge President George Bush has imposed a theocracy, risked United States bankruptcy and fanned flames of anti-Americanism are flooding US booksellers with their irate tomes. Leading the list of bestsellers is commentator Kevin Phillips’ American Theocracy, the Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st century.
South Africa needs to ask itself whether it is investing sufficiently in the country’s athletes. This is the question posed by South African Sports Commission and Olympic Committee President Moss Mashishi when a large contingent of the SA Commonwealth Games team arrived back from Melbourne on Sunday evening.
Australia ended the third day of the second Castle Lager Test at Kingsmead on Sunday very much in control of the situation, after a Brett Lee blitz saw South Africa slump to 267 all out. At close of play, Australia had 125 for one, for an overall lead of 227 runs.
United States software giant Microsoft on Monday appealed a ruling by South Korea’s anti-trust watchdog ordering it to strip popular software from its Windows operating systems. The appeal, lodged with the Seoul High Court, was aimed at ”seeking revocation” of South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission decision, the US firm said in a statement.
Murdered mining magnate Brett Kebble’s Randgold & Exploration was solvent the company said in a statement on Sunday. ”[Chief executive officer Peter Gray] said that a financial report, due to be released on Friday would confirm this,” according to company spokesperson Brian Gibson.
United States and Iraqi troops mounted two raids in Baghdad on Sunday arresting more than 40 interior ministry guards at a secret prison and killing around 20 gunmen in an assault on a mosque loyal to the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The strikes seemed to put muscle behind a warning from the US ambassador, Zalmay Khalilzad, on Saturday that militias must be brought under control.
Spanish rescue services resumed their search on Sunday for a boatload of illegal immigrants lost on the Atlantic, as reports emerged that fishing canoes carrying Africans desperate to reach Europe were now setting out from as far away as Senegal, almost 1Â 600km to the south.
Indy-car racer Paul Dana of the United States was killed in a crash during a practice session on Sunday before the Indy 300. The accident came during the final pre-race testing before the first Indy Racing League event of the season at the 2,4km oval at the Homestead-Miami Speedway.
The divided leaders of Ukraine’s orange revolution were beaten into second place in parliamentary elections on Sunday, less than 18 months since jubilant crowds swept them to power. Early exit polls suggested the former prime minister, Viktor Yanukovich, was likely to seize between a quarter and a third of Parliament, raising the possibility he could take back his post.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma has appointed a legal team under a former Conservative Party MP to fight his ”crucifixion by the media”, media reports said on Monday. Zuma and his supporters have complained that the media forms part of a plot to stop him from becoming South Africa’s next president.