World champion Michael Schumacher vowed on Wednesday to go flat out to make the Japanese Grand Prix an all-Ferrari affair, even though he and his team have already swept the honours this season. The 35-year-old German has not won a race since winning his 12th Grand Prix of the season at the 13th round in Hungary two months ago to clinch the driver’s crown for the seventh time.
With suicide bombings, kidnappings and fighting in the streets, you would think Iraqis have enough to worry about. But sports officials in the troubled country are discussing a bid to host football’s World Cup — and they are asking England for advice about how to go about it.
Simon Katich and rookie Michael Clarke shared a century partnership on Wednesday as Australia regained the ascendancy from India’s spin bowlers to finish with an opening-day total of 316 for five in the first cricket Test.
Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble kept India in the contest with a haul of three for 86 and joined the elite group of bowlers with 400 Test wickets in the process.
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Police used stun grenades and batons to clear protesters against prepaid water meters off the Old Potchefstroom Road outside Johannesburg on Tuesday. Ten people were arrested and would appear in court on Wednesday, police spokesperson Captain Mbazima Shiburi said.
Israeli and Palestinian officials have been holding secret talks aimed at ending the Israeli operation in the northern Gaza Strip, an Israeli government source said on Tuesday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the source said a senior Palestinian official had appealed to the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ”several days ago” for Israel to end the week-long operation.
About 30 women who were arrested last week for taking part in a protest march in Zimbabwe were detained again on Tuesday when they presented a petition to Parliament opposing a clampdown on human rights groups. Police arrested the women in central Harare after they presented a petition against a proposed law that would ban international human rights groups and cut off foreign funding.
South Africa must take steps to safeguard its platinum reserves which could be used as the world’s new energy source, Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils said.
In an address to the National Security Conference being held in Pretoria, Kasrils said that with global oil shortages imminent, scientists were investigating the hydrogen fuel cell as an alternative energy source.
The European Union wants tighter trade restrictions on some marine species, but remains undecided about Namibia’s proposal to ease rules on ivory sales, officials said on Tuesday. The 25 EU countries will vote together on suggested changes to an international treaty on wildlife conservation, giving the bloc significant clout, said Julio Garcia Burgues, a European Commission environmental official.
A man opened a letter addressed to his home and found more than 000 dollars in cash – which he handed over to the authorities, police said on Tuesday.
The unidentified man in the Black Forest town of Wendlingen told police the envelope contained crisp new 500-euro notes all neatly wrapped in newspaper.