AC Milan rejoined Juventus at the top of Serie A with a 2-0 win over Roma in Rome on Sunday for the reigning champions’ eighth consecutive league victory and their 10th in all competitions. After a goalless first half, Hernan Crespo put Milan ahead with a superb header before winning a penalty that Andrea Pirlo converted.
Roger Federer carved up Lleyton Hewitt for a seventh straight meeting, dominating 6-2, 6-4, 6-4 on Sunday to lift a second consecutive title at the ,1-million Indian Wells Masters. The victory left the fighting spirit of Australia’s Hewitt scraping rock bottom after failing to beat the Swiss standout since October 2003.
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on Sunday proposed a radical change to the workings of the UN, after a period of scandals and controversy that has plagued the organisation. The blueprint for reform is contained in a 63-page draft report to be presented to the general assembly.
Aerial photographs by Israel’s defence ministry have provided fresh evidence that the government is continuing its rapid expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank despite public statements to the contrary. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Sunday reported that the pictures show extensive construction on settlements.
Her fate has divided her family and friends, and entranced a nation that has watched them argue over the ultimate moral dilemma. But on Sunday night, the future of Terri Schiavo — the woman at the centre of an agonising right-to-die case — also became a political touchstone for an increasingly polarised United States.
![]()
Highly repressive laws and an overwhelming climate of fear make it impossible for Zimbabwe’s forthcoming parliamentary election to be free and fair, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. ”Fear, tension and intimidation characterise the environment in which these elections are being held,” said the report’s primary author.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice stepped up the transatlantic row about selling arms to China on Sunday with a sharply worded warning that the European Union should not upset the balance of power in a region in which it has no defence responsibilities. Rice said Japan and South Korea are also opposed to the EU’s plans.
Wildlife authorities in Australia were hunting on Friday for a saltwater crocodile after police found the ferocious reptile in a home and released it near a popular swimming hole, thinking it was a relatively harmless freshwater croc, national radio reported. A woman called police after finding the crocodile taped up in her laundry.
A British man was cleared on Friday of murdering his father after a court accepted his excuse he was sleepwalking at the time, a highly unusual defence seen just a handful of times in the country’s legal history. Jules Lowe was facing life imprisonment for killing his 83-year-old father in a savage beating at their house in Manchester.
South Africa’s socio-economic problems require systematic interventions by the government, but the policy of an independent Reserve Bank has come to dominate the macroeconomic landscape. Increasing tensions between its tough inflation targets and the growth targets of the National Treasury have worrying implications for the pace of development.