For Iraqis, it was a grim fact of daily life. As a crowd of men, most of them impoverished Shia construction workers gathered after dawn on Saturday at a food stand in Sadr City in the hope of picking up a day’s labouring from the city’s gangmasters, a powerful bomb ripped through the crowd. Half an hour later the bodies — a dozen of the 19 killed — were laid out in a garden of the Imam Ali hospital nearby, their faces covered with cardboard.
Bono looks a little disappointed when he gets on the private charter jet for the flight to Maseru, capital of Lesotho. He is wearing dark glasses with pale lavender lenses. On the corner of the glasses is a little word — Red. This is the new ”virtuous brand” created in partnership with some of the world’s biggest companies.
Politicians should channel their energies toward the needs of South Africans, rather than battling it out for the position of president of South Africa or the African National Congress, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported President Thabo Mbeki as saying on Saturday.
It takes only a few minutes of Kenyan rain to melt the baked red earth byways of the slums into pools of slippery clay that splatter high up every leg and wall and goat. The potholes brim with brown murk and the sewage runs free, carving its own streaming gutters.
Two goals midway through the second half in the space of two minutes propelled Botswana to a 2-0 Cosafa Cup win over Madagascar at Botswana’s National Stadium on Saturday afternooon and a place in Sunday’s quarterfinal against Bafana Bafana. Botswana was urged on by an enthusiastic crowd of 28 000 and was generally the more penetrative combination.
Cricket South Africa chief executive officer Gerald Majola on Saturday announced a
wide-ranging strategic plan to prepare the Proteas for the 2007 Cricket World Cup in the West Indies beginning in March. ”This strategic plan is aimed at leaving no stone unturned in order the give the Proteas the very best preparation available,” said Majola.
All Blacks winger Rico Gear scored two tries as the Canterbury Crusaders beat South Africa’s Bulls 35-15 on Saturday to join the Wellington Hurricanes in the final of rugby union’s Super 14 tournament. Gear touched down twice in the first half as the Crusaders established a 16-8 halftime lead and Chris Jack, Corey Flynn and Aaron Mauger added second-half tries.
Consistency and a superb solid performance brought South Africa’s Team Shosholoza two impressive fifth places and third spot overall after the opening two races on Saturday of the Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 11 fleet racing event being held in the Mediterranean off Spain.
American business tycoon Malcolm Glazer, owner of English Premiership giants Manchester United, is back in hospital after suffering a second stroke. The 77-year-old Glazer was only released from the Cleveland Clinic in Florida on April 23 after suffering the initial attack.
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Germany’s federal prosecutor on Friday weighed in on the debate about the risk of racist attacks during the World Cup, agreeing such a danger existed in some parts of the former East Germany. ”The situation is such that exceptionally brutal attacks may happen, which could lead certain parts of the population to avoid living in those areas,” Kay Nehm said in an interview.