If coach Stuart Baxter expected a transformation in old habits, with all Bafana Bafana 20 players assembling en masse at the squad’s training camp in Durban on Monday prior to the critical African Nations Cup match against the Democratic Republic of Congo, it was a case of Bafana’s leopards simply not changing their spots.
There were thrills, spills, breakages and plenty of action in the Trapani Louis Vuitton Act 8 off Sicily on Monday where the 12 teams from 10 nations across five continents entered for the America’s Cup in 2007 battled for supremacy on the penultimate day of match racing.
United States internet giant Yahoo! unveiled plans on Monday to take on its arch-rival Google with the launch of an ambitious and controversial online library of tens of thousands of classic books. Google last year unveiled similar plans but later suspended them amid fierce opposition from publishers and traditional libraries.
Zimbabwe has paid another -million to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the country tries to clear its debt arrears with the international lender, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. In early September, Zimbabwe made a surprise payment of -million to the IMF.
About 50 000 nomads in Ethiopia’s Afar region were displaced as a result of last week’s eruption of a volcano, officials there said on Monday. Mount Arteale, about 1 000km north-east of Addis Ababa, erupted on September 26 after an earthquake measuring 5,5 on the Richter scale.
The United States has circulated a resolution calling on United Nations peacekeepers in Liberia to arrest former Liberian president Charles Taylor if he returns home and hand him over to the war-crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone for prosecution. Taylor was given asylum in Nigeria after giving up the presidency in August 2003.
Test strugglers Bangladesh and Zimbabwe have both turned down an offer by Kenya to play them in a one-day international, claiming their national sides needed a break, local officials said on Monday. Kenya are keen to play top-quality opposition ahead of this month’s International Cricket Council International Cup semifinals in Namibia.
Former Manchester United football star George Best, who has battled alcoholism since quitting the game, was in a ”serious” condition in intensive care at a London hospital on Monday, his doctor said. Best (59) was admitted to the private Cromwell hospital in central London on Saturday with influenza-like symptoms.
The mayor apologised to the bereaved on Tuesday after a stampede by fans hoping to attend a music concert left 11 dead and injured 98 in the South Korean town of Sangju. Police questioned 22 people about the accident, including five city officials, said Kim Yong-tae, the officer heading the investigating team.
Two men have been detained for questioning over the suicide bombings at three crowded restaurants on Indonesia’s Bali island, police said on Tuesday. Indonesian officials earlier said the near-simultaneous bombings that killed 22 people and apparently were planned by two Malaysians — still at large.