Michael Schumacher aims to stay calm and at the same time highly motivated at the San Marino Grand Prix on the weekend in an effort to close in on Formula One world championship leader Fernando Alonso. The ex-world champion Schumacher said on Tuesday that Sunday’s race in Imola, the home GP of his Ferrari team, is to start Ferrari’s comeback.
Israel warned that a new ”axis of terror” — Iran, Syria and the Hamas-run Palestinian government — is sowing the seeds of the first world war of the 21st century. But the Palestinians accused Israel of an escalating and indiscriminate military campaign that targets civilians and entrenches its occupation.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa said on Tuesday that he can still perform his duties as head of state despite suffering a minor stroke that landed him in a London hospital two weeks ago. ”I am feeling very well, far better than when I went in. I am still not fully recovered but I will function,” Mwanawasa said in a telephone interview from London with state radio.
Heavy rains have sent a river gushing over its banks near Kenya’s coast, forcing at least 10 000 people from their homes and destroying thatched mud huts and crops in impoverished villages, a senior official said on Tuesday. The victims have taken shelter with relatives and on the grounds of two public schools after the Sabaki River began flooding last week, Malindi District Commissioner Jan Ireri said.
Steve Vaught heaves his bulk over the guard rail on Route 40 and excitedly points to the fast food litter in the thin brown stream as though it is evidence of a lost civilisation. ”Look at this: birth and death, pollution and renewal.” Underfoot there is a dead raccoon cub. ”Sorry buddy,” he says.
The attendance of G8 leaders at a July summit in Russia will prop up a government that has abandoned democratic principles and thus spell the G8’s death as a credible organisation, a former advisor to President Vladimir Putin said in an article published on Tuesday.
Makhaya Ntini and Dale Steyn ripped through New Zealand’s top order on the fourth morning of the first Castle Lager Test at Supersport Park on Tuesday to put South Africa in a very strong position, with New Zealand reeling on 34-6 at lunch. Working in tandem in chilly, overcast conditions, Ntini and Steyn at one stage reduced the Black Caps to 28-6.
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The woman allegedly raped by former deputy president Jacob Zuma did not act the way women usually do after they are raped, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Tuesday. Clinical psychologist Louise Olivier said that in her experience if a woman could not leave the place where she was raped, she would at least lock the door or barricade herself in.
The Premier Soccer League (PSL) is faced with a major ground crisis as the high-profiled Premier League and Absa Cup competitions approach a grandstand climax. This was announced on Monday by PSL CEO Trevor Phillips, who revealed that six of the Premier League clubs are currently labouring without the use of their delegated home grounds.
Manchester United are fired up for one last do-or-die bid to wrest the English Premiership title from Chelsea when they go to the leaders’ Stamford Bridge ground on April 29. If Chelsea earn at least a draw, they will retain their Premiership crown — delivering a particular slap in the face to United by lifting the trophy in front of them.