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 a 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 […]
Now that the Sri Lankan president Gota Rajapaksa has fled his country and resigned, human rights organisations are dusting off their files on the thousands of ‘disappeared people’, many of them simply abducted and thrust into white vans. Those who disappeared ranged from anti-government activists to supporters of a rebel movement, or were human rights […]
The Cardinal of Colombo says Jesus Christ has risen again — in the church suicide-bombed by an Islamic extremist during an Easter service in 2019. This time though, the blood on the statue in Negombo does not belong to any of the 120 murdered victims of the atrocity. “The blood that spattered onto the statue […]
FIFA’s former President Sepp Blatter has been vindicated and now “feels relieved and free“, his daughter and chief adviser Corinne Blatter-Andenmatten, who is also her father’s chief adviser, told Correspondent.World. He had chosen to resign in 2016 to save world football from financial ruin, she added. Blatter and Michel Platini, the former boss of European football and megastar player, […]