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/ 27 February 2004
The sky used to be the limit for Sundowns, but of lately the sun seems to be setting on the former three-time league champions. Sundowns find themselves in a precarious position this season, 12th on the log and uncomfortably close to the relegation battle.
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/ 27 February 2004
France has called for an ”immediate” international civilian force to restore order in Haiti and help stem the poverty-stricken Caribbean state’s slide into chaos. ”This force would be charged with assuring the restoration of public order and support actions in the field of the international community,” said Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin.
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/ 27 February 2004
France’s winemakers held emergency talks with Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin this week to demand urgent government action amid warnings that the country’s most emblematic industry is plunging into crisis. French wine exports are rumoured to have plummeted by nearly 10% last year, while domestic sales fell by almost 5%.
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/ 27 February 2004
The Pentagon has launched a criminal investigation into possible fraud at Halliburton, the oil services firm formerly run by the United States Vice-President, Dick Cheney. The inquiry centres on allegations of overcharging for importing fuel from Kuwait into Iraq by Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR).
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/ 27 February 2004
The first time I went to Israel, in January 2004, I had been invited to participate in a conference hosted by the Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace. What would I find? I did not, nor do I, believe that the idea of a Jewish state was motivated by colonial desires. There is no future for Israel as an exclusively Jewish state, writes Ivor Chipkin.
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/ 27 February 2004
South Africa this week emerged as the second African country with which the United Kingdom’s Home Office has started talks to take failed asylum seekers from Britain as part of a concerted drive to step up immigration removals and deportations.
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/ 27 February 2004
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters. A secret report, suppressed by United States defence chiefs and obtained by The Observer newspaper, warns that major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas as Britain is plunged into a ”Siberian” climate by 2020.
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/ 27 February 2004
Few would argue that Phil Neville has been one of the most improved players of the past couple of seasons. There is no doubt some influential judges rate Neville highly as a midfielder, which is why he was just a teeny bit disappointed last week to be called up for England in his old position.
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/ 27 February 2004
So what do we think? Are Manchester United finally on the slippery slope? Is Alex Ferguson now ready for the pipe and slippers? Is Roy Keane losing it in more ways than one? So many Anyone But Uniteds (ABUs) have prayed for these things for so long, ever since the Old Trafford club began dominating the Premiership in 1992.
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/ 27 February 2004
So 92 teams from four divisions enter the League Cup and what happens? Middlesbrough and Bolton Wanderers will scrap it out in the final when the season’s first silverware is decided at Cardiff’s Millennium stadium on Sunday. Boro and Bolton? It’s not quite what we might have expected when Arsenal and Aston Villa got to the last four.