Mauritania’s self-declared head of state named a new prime minister to replace the former premier who resigned along with his Cabinet after last week’s coup. A judge also freed 21 people who had been detained for plotting against the ousted regime. Junta leader Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall named Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar as prime minister.
At least three of the four suspects in the July 21 attempted bombings on the London subway and a bus were born in East Africa, where al-Qaeda-linked groups still operate and may be growing in strength, according to a new assessment by counterterrorism experts.
Uncapped halfback Kevin Senio has been called into the All Blacks squad for the Tri-Nations rugby Test against Australia on Saturday, replacing the injured Byron Kelleher. Kelleher suffered a head injury in Saturday’s 22-16 loss to South Africa in Cape Town.
Sex offenders tracked by the state are banned from public hurricane shelters in Florida under a new policy that allows them to weather the storms in prison instead. The policy was created to keep sex offenders and predators away from children, said Robby Cunningham, spokesperson for the Department of Corrections.
Justin Gatlin swept away opposition to win the 100m sprint on Sunday and added the world championship title to his Olympic gold medal. The overwhelming favourite didn’t even have to dip for the line to clock 9,88s and hold a massive .17 second margin over silver medalist Michael Frater of Jamaica.
Has Andre Markgraaff already resigned from his post as South African Rugby Union deputy president, or not? This was the question being asked late on Sunday amid conflicting media reports earlier in the day. While some of these suggested the controversial Markgraaff had already left his post, others reported he would make his final decision only on Monday.
Rescuers were on Monday scrambling to save more than 100 workers trapped deep underground in a flooded coal mine in southern China as their chances of survival faded and water levels continued to rise. The accident happened on Sunday afternoon at the Daxing coal mine about 265km northeast of the provincial capital Guangzhou in Guangdong province.
Australians awoke on Monday to the queasy feeling that cricket’s Ashes may be headed back to England after a gut-wrenching two-run defeat in the second Test to square the five-match series. Australians sat on their edge of the seats on Sunday evening watching their team’s compelling tail-end fightback
Ibrahim Ferrer, who achieved fame late in life as the singer of the Buena Vista Social Club, died on Saturday in Havana at the age of 78. Ferrer, known for his trademark cap and greying moustache, was a devotee of traditional styles of Cuban music such as son and bolero.
South Africa’s leading mining union hit the world’s top gold producer with its largest strike in 18 years as workers walked off the job on Sunday evening. The National Union of Mineworkers, with about 80Â 000 members in the gold mining sector, started a national strike at 6pm after it declared a wage dispute with employers last week.