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/ 30 January 2004
A suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus in Jerusalem on Thursday, killing at least 10 bystanders and wounding about 30 in an attack outside Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s official residence, police and paramedics said. Sharon was not in the area. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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/ 30 January 2004
Honesty and empathy are rare virtues in the world of football and were even rarer after the resignation of Massimo Moratti as Inter Milan president on Monday. The news of the departure of the 58-year-old oil billionaire brought about unification in a country where conflict seems to be the oxygen upon which the game thrives.
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/ 30 January 2004
Steve McClaren’s hopes of parading Nicky Butt on the Riverside pitch before Middlesbrough’s League Cup semifinal against Arsenal on Tuesday were dashed by the midfielder’s reluctance to leave Manchester United. The player has decided he wants to remain at the club and fight for a first-team place.
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/ 30 January 2004
Brazil got themselves knocked out of the 2004 Olympics football tournament at the weekend, beaten 1-0 in Chile by a Paraguay team who will go on to join Argentina as South America’s representatives in the finals in Greece this year. There are many voices saying it would all be different if Kakà had been there.
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/ 30 January 2004
If there is one thing that is enjoying boom times it is the so-called Dedicated Interest Group. Adorned with inspiring names, new DIGs spring up every day. You only have to pick up a paper or watch a television news broadcast to read or hear statements from organisations like APDADGD (the Association for the Prevention of Discrimination against Diabetic Guide Dogs).
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/ 30 January 2004
A hamstring injury has ruled out Chelsea defender Celestine Babayaro from Saturday’s all-important African Nations Cup Group D clash against South Africa. Team officials said Babayaro suffered a hamstring injury during Tuesday’s match against Morocco.
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/ 30 January 2004
There had been debate in Cameroon’s camp about whether recalling striker Patrick Mboma for the African Cup of Nations was a good idea — an argument he ended on Thursday with a hat-trick against Zimbabwe.
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/ 30 January 2004
Prime Minister John Howard said on Friday that Australian cricket authorities should be the ones to decide whether Australia tours Zimbabwe in May and June. ”I respect in the end it is a matter for them,” Howard told a Melbourne radio station.
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/ 30 January 2004
Thirty-six hours can be a lifetime in politics. On Tuesday morning there were journalists all over London fine-tuning obituaries of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. By mid-afternoon on Wednesday the prime minister was being cheered so riotously that the Speaker had to threaten to suspend the British Parliament.
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/ 30 January 2004
A year after the fighting stopped in Côte d’Ivoire the West African country that was seen as a regional model appears to have descended into endemic violence and disorder. Kofi Annan has called for 6 000 peacekeepers to be sent there. However, the US, which pays more than 25% of the world organisation’s peacekeeping bill, looks unlikely to approve this.