English league footballers admit they could have a different girl every night in their celebrity lifestyles. ”It wasn’t as often as a different girl every night, but it could have been,” Scotland striker Frank McAvennie recounts in a new book, Playing Away: The A-Z of Soccer Sex Scandals.
The decision on the host city for the 2012 Olympic Games took a distinctly political turn when French President Jacques Chirac decided to travel to Singapore to defend Paris’s candidacy ahead of the International Olympic Committee vote. There, he will be going head to head against British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
South African Tennis Association chief executive Ian Smith was ecstatic on Monday about the success of two South African players — Wesley Moodie and Liezel Huber — at Wimbledon over the weekend, but he believes there could be more success for South Africa if tennis could attract a long-term sponsor.
South African new vehicle sales hit another record last month with a 31% increase on the figures of June last year. A total of 50 044 vehicles were sold — 11 858 more than in June last year, the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of SA (Naamsa) said on Monday.
At least 10 people were killed and two were missing as storms and floods hit large areas of the eastern Balkans, leaving thousands of people stranded, officials said on Monday. Hundreds of people were evacuated across Bulgaria’s worst-hit regions of Veliko Tarnovo, Targovishte, Stara Zagora and Shumen.
Early parliamentary election results in Mauritius on Monday showed the opposition ahead in areas that were considered strongholds of the ruling alliance, private and state-owned radio stations said. The polls capped a campaign in which the governing coalition and the main opposition alliance ran a close race.
The National Sea Rescue Institute has ended its search off the Western Cape coast for the remaining crew member of a ski boat that went missing in rough seas on Saturday. Five rescue boats and a Dakota aircraft from the Ysterplaat air-force base in Cape Town were used in the search.
Nominal year-on-year growth of 23,3% in South African house prices was recorded in June this year, compared with a revised growth rate of 24,9% in May, according to the latest Absa house-price index released on Monday. On a month-on-month basis, nominal growth in house prices was 1,1% in June, compared with a revised 1,3% in May this year.
Publicly owned freight transport group Transnet on Monday reported a R6,8-billion attributable profit for the year ending March 31 2005 after posting a R6,3-billion loss last year. The group’s turnover rose by 6% to R46,2-billion from R43,6-billion a year ago. Operating margins increased by 28% to 12,9%.
Australia’s unique slang culture based on "mateship and booze" is under threat from American television shows, an historian said on Monday. The "larrikin" culture, typified by the unofficial national anthem <i>Waltzing Matilda</i>, is fading, said Richard Magoffin, the author of a book on the song.