Yelena Isinbayeva cleared five metres to set her latest world record in the women’s pole vault on Friday at the Crystal Palace Grand Prix. Ten minutes earlier, the 23-year-old Russian jumped 4,96m on her second attempt, surpassing the world mark of 4,95m she set last Saturday in Madrid, Spain.
The police in London said on Saturday they’d arrested a second man in London in connection with this week’s failed bomb attacks. Scotland Yard said the man was arrested in Stockwell, the south London neighbourhood where another suspect was detained on Friday and another man was shot dead by the police in a subway station.
Microsoft dropped the code name Longhorn on Friday, announcing the next version of its flagship Windows operating system will be called Windows Vista. The world’s largest software maker also said it will release the first of two test versions to developers and information technology professionals by August 3.
South Africa has made a good start in its preparation to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup, a Fifa spokesperson said on Friday. Marcus Ziegler was part of a delegation from the world football governing body who visited eight of South Africa’s 13 cities bidding to host games in 2010.
South African Airways passengers left stranded in Durban following a workers’ strike were being accommodated on flights by other airlines, an Airports Company of South Africa (Acsa) spokesperson for the region said on Saturday. The airlines were giving their own passengers priority, then making available to SAA passengers any seats still empty, said Collen Naidoo.
A new generation of dotcom punters on Friday discovered a financial fact of life: shares in Google can go down as well as up. The 6% fall that greeted the search engine’s second-quarter earnings was hardly a rout, but was still a broad hint from Wall Street that Google requires perfection every time to maintain the sky-high rating on its shares.
A succession of car bombs rocked the resort of Sharm el-Sheik early on Saturday morning, killing at least 75 people and injuring more than 120, many of them critically, in the latest terrorist episode to strike at the heart of the Egyptian tourism industry. The blasts ripped the front off at least one hotel and sowed panic among people heading home after a night out in restaurants and clubs.
Sixteen tonnes of United Nations food aid were airlifted into Niger on Friday, where an estimated 150 000 children are threatened with starvation. Another 68 tonnes of food are expected to be delivered over the weekend. They are the first deliveries of the 23 000 tonnes of food needed to feed the 2,5-million people who are going hungry, according to United Nations officials.
”They are mad. What’s the point of all this,” cried a young British barmaid after a succession of massive bomb blasts transformed Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh from a holiday-makers’ paradise into an inferno of blood and destruction.
At least 83 people were killed and 200 injured when car bombs ripped through shopping and hotel areas in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik in the worst attack in Egypt since 1981. Shaken European tourists spoke of mass panic and hysteria as people fled the carnage early on Saturday, with bodies strewn across the roads, people screaming and sirens wailing.