Rafael BenÃtez’s attempts to reshape his Liverpool squad are increasingly being frustrated by rival clubs’ inflated valuations of their players, effectively casting yet more doubt on the future of Steven Gerrard at Anfield. BenÃtez is adamant that the Liverpool star is not for sale.
Arsenal footballer Robin van Persie was arrested and held in the Netherlands on Monday on suspicion of rape, Dutch prosecutors said this week. Van Persie (21) was held in Rotterdam following an incident at the weekend, according to a prosecution spokesperson, Jei Chen de Graaf.
It was anti-climactic in the end. For a couple of weeks we were urged to get behind England’s women, who were hosting the European Championships. And we did. But just when people began caring whether a bunch of women playing football won or not, they were eliminated. But everyone — even Germany — should watch out for England at World Cup 2007.
Never heard of Deluxe? Well, nobody can really blame you. Lloyd Gedye meets the newest sensation in soft rock.
Ian Sansom finds Isabel Allende’s <i>Zorro: The Novel</i> a surprisingly pleasant read.
South African writers need to be at the forefront of our combined and determined effort to heal this land, writes Tiisetso Makube.
The United States threw its weight behind an expansion of the United Nations security council that would take in Japan as a permanent member Thursday but not the other prime contender from the developed world, Germany. The structure of the security council has not changed for more than three decades, since China joined the main victors of World War II as a permanent member.
A former Ku Klux Klan member on trial for the murder of three civil rights activists in 1964 was taken from a Mississippi court on a stretcher on Thursday after the judge ruled that evidence from a previous case could be used against him. His condition was stable, but the trial went into recess until today at the earliest, depending on his ability to attend.
Iran’s outgoing reformist president, Mohammad Khatami, warned on Thursday that the country’s presidential election was being undermined by orchestrated dirty tricks as voters prepared to choose his replacement. With the polls opening on Friday amid tight security, Khatami accused unnamed elements of ”disruption of gatherings and beatings”.
Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula, national chairperson of the South African Communist Party, has been named as axed Deputy President Jacob Zuma’s successor as Leader of Government Business in the National Assembly. This may be an indication of whom the president has in mind to fill the Deputy President’s shoes but the Presidency was still not telling on Friday morning.