The South African Navy submarine SAS Assegaai, decommissioned almost two years ago, will continue serving her country as the main attraction at a planned museum of submarine technology. ”We want to preserve the proud submarine heritage of South Africa,” said Rear-Admiral Arne Söderlund.
Cars waited in lines 3km long for fuel in Zimbabwe on Friday where a fuel shortage has grown so severe that the usually uncritical state-run broadcaster reported motorists’ pleas for the government to solve the crisis. The shortage is aggravated by a lack of hard currency in a country hit by drought and political turmoil.
Rochus Misch still remembers the sight as if it were yesterday: 60 years ago on Saturday he looked through a doorway and saw Adolf Hitler had committed suicide.
Misch (88) is the only person still alive today to have seen the Nazi leader and his wife Eva Braun dead in their bunker deep under the shattered city of Berlin.
Katsina State in northern Nigeria will jail any parents who refuse to allow health workers to vaccinate their children against the crippling polio virus. Northern Nigeria is home to the world’s biggest remaining pocket of polio infections and resistance from Muslim families, who fear a plot to sterilise infant girls, has endangered a plan to eradicate the disease this year.
France completed their South African safari with a flourish when they registered a resounding 4-1 win in the fourth and final men’s hockey Test at the Gelvan astro in Port Elizabeth on Thursday to share the series. Down 2-0 after the opening games in East London, the Frenchman were deserved winners on Thursday.
Next Monday, Elland Road in Leeds will witness the end of an era. Lucas Radebe, the South African-born central defender who has called the city home for the past 11 years, will draw a curtain on a remarkable if injury-ridden playing career, with a testimonial match between a select Leeds XI and a World XI.
As foreign students made for the language schools of the west of Ireland city of Galway and tourists headed for the Aran Islands, a man called Nick Leeson completed his first week’s work for a decade. It is the same Nick Leeson who was, briefly, the most wanted man on the planet. Leeson is now the commercial director of Galway United.
All eyes will be on Bolton in Lancashire on Saturday. That’s when Chelsea’s 50-year championship drought is scheduled to come to an emphatic end. Sam Allardyce’s Wanderers will do all they can to poop the party but let’s be frank— Frank Lampard for that matter — even defeat at Bolton isn’t going to stop the Jose Mourinho express.
Japanese train drivers whose errors delay services for as little as a minute are subjected to humiliating punishments by their employers that put efficiency before safety, a union leader claimed on Thursday, as the death toll from Monday’s derailment in Amagasaki rose to 106.
United States PC giant Dell announced on Friday that its Indian subsidiary will employ 10 000 people by year-end and will continue to expand thanks to a cheap and skilled local talent pool. Bangalore, home to more than 1 500 technology firms, exports more than a third of India’s software.