James Vaughan became the latest teenager to be feted at Goodison Park when his goal in a 4-0 win against struggling Crystal Palace established the 16-year-old as the youngest English Premiership goal-scorer. And his goal also saw him become Everton’s youngest scorer, supplanting Wayne Rooney, now at Manchester United.
The ceremony went smoothly, the guests were all smiles and the couple’s jitters seemed sweetly endearing. As Prince Charles and his bride, now Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, began their married life Sunday on a Scottish honeymoon, even Britain’s hypercritical press stopped carping long enough to join in the good will.
Crude futures slipped on Monday, as the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries said it will further increase output by half a million barrels daily from next month to help meet an anticipated demand surge. Light, sweet crude for the May contract on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell 17 cents to ,15 a barrel.
A Colombian football fan has won the right to change his name to that of his favourite club, but only after a tortuous seven-year legal battle. The ruling handed down on Friday by the country’s Constitutional Court allows the 55-year-old supporter to call himself Deportivo Independiente Medellin Giraldo Zuluaga.
A wedding day is always special, but for British couples getting married on Saturday at the Windsor Guildhall, their nuptials had an added sprinkling of second-hand royal glamour. Three weddings took place after Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles tied the knot inside the 17th-century civic building.
Organisers of a performance-art show featuring 100 naked women had to call in police reinforcements to control a long and impatient queue of people, police said on Saturday. Scuffles broke out late on Friday as people tried to jump over the barriers to get closer to the women.
Hundreds of millions of people around the world tuned in to watch Pope John Paul II’s funeral on television, but more people in The Netherlands watched Prince Charles’s wedding to Camilla Parker Bowles, according to figures published on Sunday. About 1,9-million people in The Netherlands watched Saturday’s royal wedding.
South African banking group Absa has acquired a 50% controlling stake in Banco Comercial Angolano, a financial services provider based in Luanda, Angola. The stake, which entitles Absa to board and management control of BCA, was acquired for $7,5-million. The balance of shares will continue to be privately owned by Angolan residents.
A deluge in the drought-stricken Western Cape has been both welcomed and cursed, as early-morning traffic was severely disrupted on Monday. A weather forecaster said a black south-easter, caused by a ”cut-off low pressure system”, had brought heavy rainfall to the region over the 24 hours to 8am on Monday.
In an attempt to quell violence, the Western Cape transport department will close certain taxi ranks and routes in the Cape Town area from 4pm on Monday. The measure follows unsuccessful attempts at resolving a dispute between rival taxi associations. At least three people have died in shootings related to the dispute.