By Paul Martin, Exclusive. Pelé’s legacy has two very big shadows: his willingness to serve dictators and his astonishing silence on racism. Despite his humble origins and the racism of his society, Pelé often seemed willing to consort with hardline right-wingers — a stain on his otherwise demigod status. During the period of the military dictatorship […]
By Paul Martin in Vatican City – World Exclusive. Whenever Monsignor John Kennedy leaves the office and steps onto the train home, it takes him about ten minutes to begin clearing his head.
Hospitals and ambulance services are bracing themselves for a flood of unnecessary demands on their limited resources, now that the Government health authorities have sent out alerts about the alarming rise in the Group A Step disease.
Elton Jantjies, the 31-year-old star Springbok fly-half with 46 Tests to his credit, has issued a humiliating apology for having noisy sex with a woman in a guest house close to the rugby ground — where he was playing a crucial match for his country. Last week he was dropped and from the South African national […]
VERSION ONE Exclusive. A senior German political figure has called on the Federal Government to halt the flow of funds to the Palestinian Authority, as a result of the “50 Holocausts” remark made by the PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas in Berlin last week. Ludwig Spaenle held the posts of Minister of Culture, Sports, Science and Education over […]
Ayman Zawahiri, successor to the slain Osama Bin Laden, warned the world in an Internet message soon after he became leader, that Al Qaeda would remain a ‘source of horror and a nightmare chasing America, Israel and their allies’. That, of course, included Britain. It was a message that intelligence communities took very seriously. The evidence from his own life story […]
By Paul Martin, Chornomorsk Port. Right opposite the port that could become the first gateway for wheat to leave Ukraine stands a grey lamp-post.. The area around it is now called Freedom Square, but until the Soviet Union ended it was known as Lenin Square. The name-change is part of a pattern across the Ukraine, of becoming more and more distant […]
Exclusive. David Linsey, whose younger brother and sister were killed in a suicide bombing in a hotel in Sri Lanka three years ago, has supported calls for an urgent investigation into who lay behind the terrorist attacks. He believes the collapse of the Rajapaksa family’s decades-long grip on power may make a proper investigation easier. “I […]