Moroka Swallows ended the premier soccer league season on a high note when they defeated Manning Rangers 3-1 in a tense Absa Cup final played at Vodacom Park on Sunday. The half-time score was 1-1. The drama started late in the match when Swallows scored the two winning goals and Rangers had their captain and key defender Frank Schoeman sent off for arguing with referee Daniel Bennett.
Zinedine Zidane showed David Beckham how to bend it when he conjured up a stunning win in the Stadium of Light on Sunday. The England captain’s former Manchester United teammate Fabien Barthez had obviously seen the film because he knew which way to dive for Beckham’s penalty.
England spinner Ashley Giles admitted on Monday that he had come close to ending his international career because of press and public criticism. Giles was one of the stars of England’s third Test and 3-0 series’ clinching victory over New Zealand inside four days at Trent Bridge here on Sunday.
Michael Schumacher will wholeheartedly agree that seven is his lucky number — while brother Ralf will be looking seven days ahead to overcame the frustration of Sunday’s Canadian Grand Prix. ”Michael under the banner of seven: seventh win in Montreal, seventh victory in the season and 77th in his career”, said French sports daily L’Equipe.
Ronald Reagan, celebrated this week as a world statesman and champion of democracy, was nothing of the sort if you lived in Southern Africa during his tenure. For the people of the region ”the Reagan doctrine” unleashed devastating private and state terrorism, the legacies of which they still have to contended with.
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A senior official at Iraq’s Ministry of Education was shot dead in Baghdad on Sunday, the second such attack here in 24 hours, an official said. Kamal Jarrah, the ministry’s director of cultural relations, was gunned down in front of his home in the west of the capital as he left for work, the official said.
For one night, Kenyan police had one of the FBI’s most wanted al-Qaeda terrorists behind bars. It should have been a coup for Kenya’s cops. The problem was they didn’t know his true identity, and a day after his detention on July 12 2002, the man escaped, outwitting seven police officers armed with AK-47s and 9mm pistols.
An explosion on Sunday hit Saddam Hussein’s former main palace in Baghdad, now used by the United States-run coalition, in the first such direct strike but no casualties were immediately reported, officials said. A rocket or a mortar struck the roof of the Republican Palace, causing minor damage.