The World Health Organisation (WHO) has resumed operations in a western Angolan province hit by a deadly Ebola-like virus, after suspending work last week when residents attacked its teams. Residents in Uige province had mistakenly feared the WHO teams were spreading — instead of helping contain — the rare Marburg virus, which has killed 184 people.
Tim Cahill scored two goals on Sunday to lead fourth-place Everton over Crystal Palace 4-0 and help West Bromwich Albion move out of the Premier League’s relegation zone for the first time in five months. Cahill scored in the 47th and 55th minutes at Goodison Park. He first sent a rising volley into the net and later headed in another goal.
A rollicking 85 off 58 deliveries by master blaster Justin Kemp saw the Titans to a five-wicket victory over the Dolphins in their Standard Bank Pro20 match at Willowmoore Park on Sunday. The Titans won the toss and sent the Dolphins in to bat. The visitors made 200 in their 20 overs.
Sete Gibernau, whose hopes of a Spanish Grand Prix victory were ended by a controversial last-bend collision with world champion Valentino Rossi, has vowed to battle back in Portugal next weekend. Spaniard Gibernau was on course for victory on Sunday as he led his bitter Italian rival into the final curve.
Formula-one champion Michael Schumacher, NBA All-Star LeBron James and sailor Ellen MacArthur are among five sportspeople who appear in Time magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people. The eclectic list, which hits newsstands on Monday, ranges from the Dalai Lama to Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela.
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.