Wallabies coach Eddie Jones has warned England against employing off-the-ball tactics to unsettle his players in their World Cup final rematch in Brisbane on Saturday. The verbal jousting between Jones and English counterpart Clive Woodward kicked off on Monday ahead of their much-anticipated confrontation at Lang Park.
Bulgaria may be just the opponent Italy needs in its final group match. The ”Azzurri” are hobbling with injuries and hampered by suspensions, bans and squabbles with the media heading into Tuesday’s game in Guimaraes. But even without star playmaker Francesco Totti, captain and defender Fabio Cannavaro and midfielders Gennaro Gattuso and Cristiano Zanetti, Italy is a big favourite.
Click on image for full-size view.
Bill Clinton spent his youth as a fat, miserable boy and endured a childhood beset by violence and abuse. And his infamous affair with young White House intern Monica Lewinsky was caused by ‘old demons’ from his youth that have haunted him all his life, the former President reveals in copies of his long-awaited autobiography, My Life, that began circulating on Saturday, two days before the official publication date.
”We must remain vigilant to ensure that our democracy does not fall prey to what may happen when there is a one-party state, and has indeed happened in other African countries where there is a one-party state,” Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) President Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Saturday.
Kenyan journalist Peter Murimi was named winner of the CNN journalist of the year award in Johannesburg on Saturday, the United States broadcaster announced on Sunday. Murimi, who works for the Camerapix agency in Kenya, was chosen from 465 entrants from 30 countries across Africa for his story, ”Walk to Womanhood”.
It is Europe’s longest-running cultural heritage dispute, yet the row over the rightful home of the Elgin Marbles is still so hotly contested it will almost qualify as an Olympic sport in Athens this summer. Undiplomatic comments made by a British archaeologist in a new BBC documentary on the subject will now take the temperature of debate still higher.
”The toll on children is most worrying,” says James Elder, communications officer for the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef), about the situation in Darfur, western Sudan. He noted that; ”There are high levels of malnutrition, especially among children. Many of them have died of malnutrition, but it is difficult to get the number of those dead due to the lack of monitoring logistics.”
How you can help
Scientists have voted to boycott an international journal after its owners blocked publication of a paper claiming large numbers of IBM workers have died prematurely of cancers and other diseases. The development is unprecedented and has triggered a battle between the computer company and researchers.
A United States F-16 jet fired missiles into a residential area in the flashpoint Sunni city of Fallujah on Saturday, killing at least 22 members of one extended family. A US spokesperson said the aircraft had been targeting a safe house belonging to the terrorist network run by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian directing a suicide bombing campaign against coalition forces in the new Iraqi security organisations.