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The United States World Cup football squad concluded a 12-day training camp in North Carolina on Sunday and prepared for three friendlies in the next week to serve as a tuneup for matches in Germany. The Americans will face Italy, Ghana and the Czech Republic next month in opening-round play at the global football showdown.
Bulgaria, once home to the Ancient Thracian civilisation, laid a gilded lure for tourists recently with a dazzling display of its nine most important gold and silver artefacts, seen together for the first time. The objects, dating back between the fifth millennium BC and the third century AD "form part of the foundations of European civilisation", President Georgi Parvanov said.
The Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, is to meet Hamas leaders this week in an attempt to prevent growing conflict in the Gaza Strip degenerating into civil war after a bomb attack that seriously injured the head of the Palestinian intelligence service and a failed attempt to blow up another senior security official.
A combination of icy temperatures and reduced capacity could plunge parts of Cape Town into darkness on Monday night, a media report said on Monday. Eskom has estimated that there will be a shortage of at least 150 megawatts from 6pm to 8pm, after Koeberg’s Unit Two generator is switched off on Monday for refuelling and safety upgrades.
As Zimbabwe reels under a world-record inflation of 1Â 042,9%, many are forsaking meals and walking or cycling for scores of kilometres to work every day in a tortuous battle to survive. Zimbabwe is going through the seventh year of economic recession characterised by four-digit inflation, shortages of basic foodstuffs while at least 80% of the population lives below the poverty threshold.
If South Africa is to move out of its developing world status, it will have to boost its reserve of technological skills. Vis Naidoo, chief executive of the non-profit education organisation, Mindset, tells Gina Bonmariage about his plans for the organisation.
Emboldened by the acquittal of Jacob Zuma, leaders of the African National Congress and South African Communist Party youth leagues have become more strident than usual, and the politics of demagogy threaten to choke the national discourse. Why, I’ve wondered, have their various mad ramblings gone unchecked?
The recent rock and punk revival is set to put guitar bands in the limelight again at this summer’s festivals across Europe, but the electronic music scene is fighting back with events of its own where vinyl and samplers rule. The undisputed leader is the Sonar festival in Barcelona, Spain, which runs from June 15 to 17.
”The African National Congress Youth League is there to adopt radical, militant positions that the ANC can only contemplate … Youth must never be paralysed by fear. The role of youth is to respond radically and sharply, but with an understanding of the bigger picture.”
Two Rwandans named in a list of the 100 most wanted suspects for the 1994 genocide are living freely in Britain despite demands that they return home to stand trial. Charles Munyaneza (48) and Celestin Ugirashebuja (55), local mayors accused of organising the genocide in their provinces of southern Rwanda, are leading ordinary lives with their families in south-east England.