Juventus and Inter Milan scored late goals as Italian clubs stayed perfect, while Bayern Munich and Arsenal held on for draws in the Champions League on Tuesday. Monaco also collected its second win, matching Spain’s Real Sociedad in the competition’s second rotation.
The Wallabies should stick to playing rugby rather than whingeing about Argentina’s ‘dirty tactics’ ahead of their World Cup opening match, Pumas skipper Agustin Pichot said in Sydney on Wednesday.
South Africa stood out brightly during the official 2010 World Cup bid presentations on Tuesday with a slick and professional package that included video messages from South African President Thabo Mbeki, national hero Nelson Mandela and British soccer star David Beckham.
South Africa on Wednesday said playing in Pakistan is vital to the future of world cricket but that their top priority is the safety of their players. The Proteas arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday for a shortened 29-day tour after briefly cancelling over security fears triggered by a blast in an empty office building in Karachi.
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Members of Côte d’Ivoire’s rebel forces on Tuesday exchanged gunfire in Bouake, the rebels’ stronghold in the centre of the divided West African country. Shooting erupted in a fire station far from French peacekeepers who have stepped up patrols since a botched bank robbery by rebel soldiers killed 23 at the weekend.
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The country’s only independent website providing crime statistics nationally celebrates its one-month birthday on Wednesday — but critics wonder about its validity and accessibility to those most affected by crime. About 80% of the website’s respondents are from the Gauteng region.
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In an upbeat address to the Interfaith Conference for Peace in Africa, Deputy President Jacob Zuma said on Tuesday the successful resolution of conflicts such as Mozambique, Angola and South Africa is an indicator that peace on the African continent is an achievable goal.
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An investigation by Kenya’s judiciary has found that almost half of the country’s judges and close to a third of its magistrates are corrupt. At least 23 out of Kenya’s 53 Appeals Court and High Court judges, and 82 out of its more than 200 magistrates have been accused of taking bribes.
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The Democratic Alliance has taken ”the strongest possible exception” to what it says is a sacrilegious poem in honour of Northern Province premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi. The poem, by a school pupil, was published on the front page of the September edition of the Limpopo government’s newspaper.