”My time here could come to an abrupt end,” Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN’s special representative to Iraq, commented just three weeks ago as I sat on a sofa in the Baghdad office that last Tuesday became his tomb. He never seriously imagined he would be an assassin’s target.
Scoreboard at stumps on the fourth day of the fourth Test between England and South Africa at Headingley at Leeds on Sunday.
Title favourites Manchester United and Arsenal share the top spot in the English Premier League after two weeks while Bayern Munich has moved into a first-place tie in the German Bundesliga.
New Zealand rugby legend Jonah Lomu’s dreams of forcing his way into the All Blacks World Cup squad were dashed on Monday after he was left out of a 30-strong squad named for the tournament.
Tennis player Andy Roddick has put in some bizarre preparation for the next week’s United States Open. He has played to the point where he no longer wants to pick up a racket, and he is now going to jump out of a plane with his coach.
Sri Lanka has named an experienced squad for the forthcoming A team’s tour of South Africa at the beginning of September.
Jacques Kallis took a Test-best six for 54 as South Africa beat England by 191 runs on the fifth and final day of the fourth cricket Test on Monday.
English Premiership sides Chelsea and Newcastle United, four-times winners Ajax Amsterdam, Scotland’s Celtic, Italy’s Lazio and French side Marseille can look confidently towards their final Champions League hurdle.
A Zimbabwean government minister said on Saturday the ruling Zanu-PF party will not be rushed into talks with the opposition Movement of Democratic Change (MDC) unless the talks successfully end the country’s political and economic woes.
There was no warning. The two vehicles, a standard Land Rover and a slate-grey four-wheel drive, had driven out of the British Army headquarters a few minutes earlier. Basra, at 8.30am yesterday, was quiet. The ferocious heat was keeping most of the city’s two million inhabitants indoors, despite the lack of power and water.