A day-long drama over whether or not Tiger Woods could make the cut at the PGA Championship ended in spectacular fashion on Friday with a last-hole birdie sending the superstar into the weekend. The Masters and British Open champion risked missing the cut to attempt a birdie-eagle finish on Baltusrol Golf Club’s only par-five holes.
Top seed Rafael Nadal booked a place in the semifinals of the ,2-million Montreal Masters as rain produced a frustrating and inconclusive evening on Friday for veteran campaigner Andre Agassi. Top seed Nadal dropped just three points on serve in his opening set as he trampled Argentine Mariano Puerta 6-3, 6-1.
When aid workers start packing up after dealing with the hunger emergency, Niger’s leaders will be left struggling to find lasting solutions to a cycle of chronic lack of food that affects much of Africa. Even in ”normal” times, two-thirds of Niger’s population lives on less than a day and 40% of children show signs of malnutrition.
Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lakshman Kadirgamar, was assassinated on Friday night by unidentified snipers in the capital, the military and hospital sources said. Kadirgamar (73) was hit by several bullets in the head and chest as he returned to his tightly guarded private residence in Colombo.
A tornado on Friday struck a mobile home park in Wyoming with little warning, killing two people and injuring about a dozen others, authorities said. The twister touched down on Friday afternoon in this coal-mining town of 1 400 people about 160km north-east of Casper, said Campbell county Sheriff Bill Pownall.
The architect’s concept is breathtaking: a spiralling, 115-storey tower that would pierce the sky along Chicago’s lakefront and grab the title of the tallest building in the United States. Off the drawing board, though, history shows that such plans often fail to live up to their record-breaking aspirations.
Former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano said on Friday he is ”ready” to mediate between Zimbabwe’s ruling party and the opposition, following his appointment to broker talks in the crisis-hit Southern African country. ”I will now assess if the two sides wish to talk to each other,” Chissano said.
School transport will be back to normal on Monday for thousands of Gauteng pupils following an end to a two-week dispute between the education department and bus operators. Education spokesperson Panyaza Lesufi on Friday said pupils will have ”normal transportation” from Monday.
A man was killed when a train ploughed into his car on the railway tracks between the Mitchells Plain and Lentegeur stations on Saturday morning, metro rescue officials said. A Cape Town metro rescue spokesperson said the man ”had had a bit to drink” and wanted to drive across the railway tracks.
About 75 people were left homeless after a fire at the Joe Slovo informal settlement on the Cape Flats destroyed their shacks on Friday night, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported. Firefighters struggled to control the fire as they ran out of water.