After a long wait Volvo’s passenger car based XC90 has arrived, and it’s every bit as good as all the hype led us to expect. The XC 90 T6 is the flagship model in the Swedish car-maker’s new XC range. Although not a REAL off-roader, the Volvo is well qualified to take on the BMW X5 and Mercedes Benz ML series soft-roaders, both in the rough and as a tarmac-chomping family wagon.
Iraqi guerrillas killed a US soldier in a grenade attack south of Baghdad early yesterday morning, bringing the American death toll in 24 hours to five. The deaths came as the hunt for Saddam Hussein intensified in the Tikrit area and in the capital.
The night tends to go awry when you hang out with Staceyann Chin. The night or the day — take your pick. She prefers the day. She told me so. Going public about her private life, this hip-hop poet pushes queer boundaries.
The panacea for Japan’s long-standing economic woes is more vigorous engagement in regional free trade agreements. South Africa’s third-largest trading partner has been stricken by deflation and slow growth for more than ten years.
Gold’s glitter depends on rand’s fortunes. The waxing and waning fortunes of the rand have South Africa’s gold mines in a fix, even overshadowing the NUM’s recent wage demands.
Michael Vaughan hit his ninth Test century here on Sunday as England battled back in the first Test against South Africa and then described his 156 as the best of his international career.
Two Burundi rebel groups on the fringes of negotiations have more support than the parties to the Arusha Accord and have to be included in negotiations.
Some years ago Nelson Mandela inadvertently flattered me by seeming to act on a suggestion I had made. I had written an editorial for the Mail & Guardian, arguing that he should stand down as president after serving just one term, instead of the two allowed by the constitution.
The Franco-American cold war was rendered irrelevant by a bike race yesterday as the stars and stripes flew in all shapes and sizes just metres from Jacques Chirac’s garden fence on the Champs Elysées.
Fernando Vargas has a new style and a new attitude — and both were evident in his return to the ring.