The U.N.’s most powerful body spent nine days visiting African hotspots trying to push solutions to the continent’s worst conflicts and get a taste of the hardships faced by millions of civilians caught in fighting.
For the U.N. Security Council diplomats who traveled from Kenya to Djibouti, where peace talks on Somalia were taking place, and [...]
Sir Michael Stoute often runs his classic prospects at Chester and Doctor Fremantle rates a good bet to provide him with a second win in three years in the Bank of America Chester Vase (2.45) there today.
A five-length winner of a maiden at Nottingham last autumn, Doctor Fremantle was heavily backed to make a winning [...]
Nineteen African migrants died after smugglers forced them to
jump off a boat at gunpoint today, as they neared the end of a trip
across the Gulf of Aden from Somalia to Yemen.
Yemeni officials said the boat was carrying 120 refuge-seekers,
most of them Somalis, and that 102 of them managed to swim to the
coast of Ahwar in [...]
Coach Stu Jacobs was left wondering whether his side would ever put Auckland away after its winless streak against its northern rivals ticked over to 11 matches.
Its something like 10 losses and a draw and thats the most disappointing thing because we know we should have won today, he said. We were very good today [...]
Records are there to be broken and John Hughes continues to do that in his upwards curve as Falkirk manager. But he may have to smash a 58-year hoodoo if he is to fulfil his dream of taking his team into the top six in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League.
The Westfield side couldn’t break down [...]
The crinkly Christchurch taxi drivers informative commentary on most things Canterbury fell into a giant hole on the trip to Cowles Stadium when I said I was checking out the first-year Australian womens national league franchise.
Never heard of them, mate, he confessed. The majority of the mainstream sports media had already mirrored Rons failure to [...]
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Figures out today from Statistics New Zealand (SNZ) put the net outflow of permanent and long term (PLT) migrants to Australia at 28,000 in 2007, compared with 20,700 the previous year.
That was the highest net outflow to Australia for a December year since 1988, when it was 33,400, SNZ said.
The PLT flow to Australia was [...]
ONE HAS broken a wrist, another fell so heavily he split his
helmet. Yet another was recently treated in hospital for fractured
ribs. And the rest? Bruises, cuts and enough muscle soreness to
know that this is serious training.
This eclectic confederation of amateur cyclists has until June
to get fit enough to spend just over a week riding hundreds [...]
OF ALL the world’s problems, which is most urgent: the
slow warming of the atmosphere coupled with the unhappy prospect of
longer droughts, devastating cyclones and rising oceans?
Or what US President George Bush this week called “the defining
ideological struggle of the 21st century”, fighting terrorism and
violent Islamist extremism?
Perhaps the most pressing challenge facing the planet is
finishing the [...]
