South African driver Giniel De Villiers, in a Nissan, and French motorcyclist David Fretigne, riding a Yamaha, won the third stage of Dakar 2004, a 9km loop around on Saturday.
China braced itself yesterday for a return of the deadly pneumonia-like Sars virus after genetic tests on a suspected patient in the southern city of Guangdong showed a ”high correlation” with the virus’s gene sequencing, according to government-controlled media.
An Egyptian charter plane with 135 passengers and six crew members on board crashed into the Red Sea early on Saturday as it was headed for the coastal resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Cairo airport officials said. Most of the passengers were French tourists.
White Zimbabwean farmers who sought refuge in Zambia, have helped the country pull out of a crippling food shortage that saw millions of people relying on food aid last season. The landowners were forced off their properties in Zimbabwe during the fast-track land reform programme that began in 2000.
Libya’s prime minister said his country wants to be rewarded for opening up to nuclear inspections and stressed that the United States must lift sanctions by May 12 or his government won’t have to pay -million to each family of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing victims, according to an interview published on Friday.
Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward following the death of Blue Bulls rugby player Francois Swart in a road accident near Victoria West in the Northern Cape on Friday. Swart, of Pretoria, and two friends were travelling in a car when the driver apparently lost control and the car left the road and overturned.
Jacques Rudolph and Neil McKenzie defied growing speculation that they were incapable of realising their true potential to spur South Africa to a dominant position on the first day of the first cricket Test at Newlands on Friday. At stumps, South Africa had progressed to 308 for six.
India were 650 for five at the close of the second day of the third cricket Test against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday. Sachin Tendulkar scored his 32nd Test century and was unbeaten on 220 with Parthiv Patel not out 45.
President Thabo Mbeki’s spokesperson has told the Mail & Guardian Online that media reports saying the president’s motorcade was involved in a shooting incident in the Haitian capital during the country’s independence celebrations on Thursday are ”without foundation”.
Protest, celebration in Haiti