Новости за 29.04.2018

LONDON – George Kruis has been ruled out of England’s tour of South Africa by his club boss at Saracens, Mark McCall.

Roberto Firmino has committed his future to Liverpool by signing a new long-term contract, the Premier League club said on Sunday.

Rafael Nadal won his 11th Barcelona title on Sunday when he breezed past Greek teenager Stefanos Tsitsipas 6-2 6-1 in the final.

Celtic’s season is not over yet, as they still have the Scottish Cup final against Motherwell to come.

Arsene Wenger was honoured by Manchester United on his final visit to Old Trafford as Arsenal manager, but left beaten once more on the field as Marouane Fellaini’s stoppage time header handed the hosts a 2-1 win.

LONDON – The Cheetahs will play Welsh outfit Scarlets in their Pro14 playoff match in Llanelli, Wales, on Saturday, May 5.

Hamilton pulls off one of the luckiest wins of his career in a crash-strewn Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

BERLIN – Liverpool-bound Naby Keita was sent off for the fourth time this season as 10-man RB Leipzig crashed to a shock 3-0 Bundesliga defeat to Mainz on Sunday.

It was all smiles as the Mourinho and Wenger enjoyed a warm embrace before kickoff, while Wenger was applauded by the United support.

Children can look forward to an exciting and wide selection of action figurines, collectables and play sets inspired by big screen hits.

You can never go wrong with a hearty dessert like Bread & Butter Pudding

INTERNATIONAL - Soccer’s governing body FIFA may be based in Zurich, but that doesn’t mean the Swiss benefit from any kind of special deal as they race to gather hundreds of World Cup stickers; nowhere else are the collectibles more expensive.

JOHANNESBURG - More than two years after the South African Local Authorities (SALA) pension fund board was replaced under a cloud of suspicion of corruption, an investment deal involving about R340 million rand that was signed with Sampada Private Equity has come under the spotlight.

BAKU – Defending world champion Lewis Hamilton claimed his first win of 2018 on Sunday and took over as leader of the title race when he triumphed in a dramatic, crash and incident-strewn Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

JOHANNESBURG - A lot has been said about Zulu maidens parading bare-breasted in public, but those who understand the culture say it is a matter of pride and not shame - well unless one has eaten of the forbidden fruit so to say.

CAPE TOWN - While the South African Revenue Service (SARS) was putting jobs at risk by delaying VAT refunds to small businesses, it now appears that SARS might have overlooked, "perhaps deliberately", fraudulent VAT claims in the region of R100 million submitted by Gupta-linked people, the Democratic Alliance said on Sunday.

LONDON – Sunderland sacked manager Chris Coleman on Sunday, and then announced that owner Ellis Short was selling the club following the northeast side's relegation to the third tier of English football.

Oom Boy Louw, the legendary Springbok, is fabled for having uttered the immortal line “looks at the scoreboard” to justify a miserable team performance.

For many years, his homespun philosophy was held up as the perfect riposte to criticism over a team’s aesthetic value.

Johannesburg - The ANC on Sunday sent its condolences to the families of Akhumzi Jezile, Siyasanga Kobese and Thobani Mseleni following their deaths in a car accident. 

SINGAPORE – Olympic champions Fiji stormed to victory in a dramatic final at the Singapore Sevens on Sunday, narrowly edging out a captainless Australia 28-22 to go top of the circuit table.

CAPE TOWN - Three people were injured, two of them seriously, when a minibus taxi crashed into a tree along the Koeberg Road in Killarney Gardens in Cape Town on Sunday morning, paramedics said.

As South Africa celebrates Freedom Day, civil society organisations have increasingly become the last line of defence against corruption, service delivery failure and abuse of power by elected and public representatives.

The power of civil society has been demonstrated by its part in helping to force out two ANC presidents since 1994 - Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki, when they behaved undemocratically. Civil society mobilised for a long time against Zuma, for his involvement in alleged corruption... Читать дальше...

Greek key strikes the right balance of decorative and simple, ancient and modern, masculine and feminine - all at the same time.

DURBAN - Google is looking to improve the ways that people text on an Android phone to make it as good as other messaging apps.

Siberian Irina Sidorenko has been living in her car with Greta as she set out to see the world - 48 countries so far