Inter Milan have completed the signing of Portugal international Luis Figo from Real Madrid, the Italian Serie A club confirmed on Friday. The 32-year-old forward passed a medical before putting pen to paper on a two-year contract. No transfer fee was involved for Portugal’s most-capped player.
Talks on financial assistance to Zimbabwe are expected to be concluded soon, the South African finance ministry said on Friday. Discussions between the two countries on a ”principled decision” to assist Zimbabwe are at a sensitive stage, spokesperson Logan Wort said.
Attempts to find the person responsible for microwaving a live cat at the University of KwaZulu-Natal will continue until the culprits have been found, the university said on Friday. ”While there’s still no evidence on which we can base a case, we’re not stopping until we get to the bottom of this,” dean of student affairs Trevor Wills said.
About 300 grannies pulled up their rocking chairs in a small Finnish town square on Wednesday to tell stories to small children in a bid to bring the generations together, organisers said. They came from across Finland — and five of them even travelled from as far away as Spain — to take part in the hour-long event.
An envelope leaking a strange pinkish powder sparked an alert in a Paris suburban post office this week, but tests revealed the substance to be nothing more than desiccated elephant dung, police said on Thursday. With France on high terrorism alert, postal workers took no chance when they noticed the strange envelope.
Another round of talks between the South African Local Government Association (Salga) and municipal unions is scheduled to take place on Monday in an attempt to reach a wage agreement and stave off a national strike. Unions are scheduled to embark on a second week of protest action on Monday.
An 81-year-old Portuguese woman remarried her former husband, who is 10 years older, on Thursday, more than three decades after she left him because of his womanizing, a daily newspaper reported. "He behaved badly and out of jealousy I left him after three years," Silvina Azenha told <i>Correio da Manha</i>.
Estimates of the number of black South Africans who want to become farmers may have been exaggerated, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Friday. Joining the racially charged debate over land ownership in South Africa, he said recent research indicated only 9% of black people who are not currently farming wish to do so.
A nine-year-old boy was trampled to death in a rush for food during a lunch break at his school on the East Rand, the Gauteng education department said on Friday. Mabulelo Magqwana was trampled by fellow pupils in a rush for the food vendors at the Phumula Gardens Primary School in Vosloorus on Thursday.
United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa has suspended eight of his top elected officials with immediate effect following fears that they were intending to cross the floor next month. Holomisa would not supply details, claiming it is an internal matter, but denied they were asked to leave, as was previously stated.