The United States on Tuesday renewed its terrorism warning for US citizens in or thinking of travelling to Kenya in a step likely to anger the Kenyan government which has long fought for the alert to be lifted. In a travel warning the State Department urged ”American citizens to consider carefully the risks of travel to Kenya at this time due to ongoing safety and security concerns”.
The Likud party leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Tuesday ordered his Cabinet ministers to quit the Israeli government. The ministers — including the Foreign Minister, Silvan Shalom — will hand in their letters of resignation at Sunday’s weekly Cabinet meeting, Netanyahu’s spokesperson, Ofir Akunis, said.
Benni McCarthy is well and alive — and raring to play for Bafana Bafana in the forthcoming African Nations Cup. This was the emphatic assurance given by coach Ted Dumitru on Tuesday while refuting reports that the dazzling, but enigmatic Porto striker, intended asking the South African Football Association to release him from the tournament in Egypt.
Cheerleaders catapult in the air, climb human pyramids and catch their tumbling teammates as they fall to the ground. They also make lots of emergency room visits. A study published on Tuesday in the journal Pediatrics indicates cheerleading injuries more than doubled from 1990 until 2002.
Free State farmers celebrating the rain that fell over the New Year are praying the wet weather carries on into the planting season to ease a drought that has crippled the province since November. Free State Agricultural Union director Pieter Moller said the recent rainfall had not broken the drought, but had brought great relief to the farmers.
Llanelli Scarlets pledged on Tuesday to slap a life ban on the fan who confronted All Black great Jonah Lomu at Stradey Park during Monday’s Celtic League clash against Welsh rivals Cardiff. Lomu was verbally abused by a home supporter, who threw the ball away from the wing, during Cardiff’s 32-13 Celtic League defeat.
Hunter S Thompson’s widow will co-edit a new magazine called The Woody Creeker, which is expected to hit newsstands next month. The gonzo journalist shot himself in his kitchen on February 20 last year, apparently despondent over health problems. ”We have some good writers already,” Anita Thompson told The Aspen Times.
Rescuers trying to reach 13 trapped miners in a United States coal mine said on Tuesday that they were ”very discouraged” at the levels of carbon monoxide they had detected. The dangerously high level of gas was discovered after a hole was successfully drilled into the tunnel where the miners are believed to be barricaded, about 80m below the surface.
A German documentary to be aired this week claims to have found new evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald shot United States president John Kennedy on the orders of the Cuban secret services. ”It was [Cuban leader Fidel] Castro’s vengeance for the CIA bid to assassinate him with a poisoned pen,” award-winning German filmmaker Wilfried Huismann says in the film.
A United Nations body on Tuesday slapped a freeze on exports of caviar from wild sturgeon, saying the move was essential to protect the endangered fish that produces the gourmet eggs. It is now up to exporting nations to come forward with new proposals if they want to restart the money-spinning commerce.