Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger marvelled at his side’s inner strength after the Gunners’ inched another step closer to the Premiership title with a 0-0 draw against Newcastle at St James’ Park on Sunday. Wenger’s champions-in-waiting extended their unbeaten run in the league to 32 games this season.
Phil Mickelson won the 68th Masters in Georgia with a dramatic last-hole birdie to beat Ernie Els by a single stroke on Sunday. In one of the most electrifying final nine-hole battles to date seen over the famed Augusta National Golf Club, the two men battled it out, firing birdies and eagles, but it was Mickelson who snatched victory.
Brian Lara hit an unbeaten 313 against England on Sunday, bringing back memories of his world-record 375 against the same opponents on the same ground nearly 10 years to the day. The West Indies captain led domination on the second day of their fourth and final Test at the Antigua Recreation Ground.
The father of the Malaysian-born Australian model at the centre of new revelations about soccer superstar David Beckham said on Monday he was devastated over her claims that she was the England captain and Real Madrid player’s mistress for up to two years.
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The Democratic Alliance has produced a pack of playing cards that highlights the candidates on the African National Congress election lists who have ”betrayed their office as public representatives”.
Special Report: Elections 2004
A senior national transport department official on Saturday lashed out at motorists for their behaviour on the country’s roads that shows a total disrespect for human life. Wendy Watson, spokesperson for the Arrive Alive campaign, was reacting to an incident this week in which a metro police officer stationed in Nelspruit was killed in a hit and run incident.
Two African National Congress activists were killed and another injured after being abducted from a late night church service at Mqedandaba, near Estcourt in KwaZulu-Natal, ANC provincial spokesperson Mtholephi Mthimkhulu said on Saturday.
Russia was on Saturday night gripped by the spectacle of rescuers struggling to save up to 30 miners trapped beneath tons of rubble after an explosion in a Siberian coal mine left 22 of their colleagues dead. A blast, apparently caused by a methane gas leak, tore through the Taizhina mine shaft at 6.30am, near the mining town of Osinniki, 3 000km to the east of Moscow in the coal-rich region of Kuzbass.
French customs officers at a Paris airport have seized more than 5 600 prehistoric artefacts, believed to have been looted from archeological sites in Niger’s desert, the economy ministry has announced. The objects consisted of 5 530 stone arrow heads and 90 other carved stones from the neolithic era.