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KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. — Andy Murray staggered up to No.2 in the world with a gruelling and scrappy victory over David Ferrer at the Sony Open tennis tournament on Sunday.The Olympic and US Open champion survived a match point, blistering heat and humidity plus a gusting wind as he saw off Ferrer 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 to lift the Miami Masters title.
Could Futsal help produce an English Lionel Messi?
LONDON. — Just how far away are England from producing their very own Lionel Messi?The prospect of a player in the shirt of the Three Lions, displaying the kind of skills and intelligence currently associated with arguably the world’s most talented footballer is a
Tanzania death toll now 34
DAR ES SALAAM – The death toll from the collapse of a multi-storey building in Tanzania has risen to 34 after more bodies were pulled from the rubble, a senior government official said yesterday.
South Korea vows to hit back if North attacks
SEOUL — South Korea will strike back quickly if the North stages any attack, the new president in Seoul warned yesterday, as tensions ratcheted higher on the Korean peninsula amid shrill rhetoric from Pyongyang and the US deployment of radar-evading fighter planes.
Mandela messages of support left on stones
JOHANNESBURG — As former president Nelson Mandela moved into his fifth day in hospital yesterday, South Africans have left messages of support on stones surrounding plants outside Mandela’s Johannesburg home.DA petitions Zuma to withdraw forces from CAR
CAPE TOWN/BANGUI — The Democratic Alliance said yesterday it was tabling an urgent parliamentary motion to force President Jacob Zuma to withdraw all South African troops from the Central African Republic.Adviser to Libyan PM seized
TRIPOLI — An adviser to Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was grabbed from his car by unknown assailants on the outskirts of Tripoli on Sunday evening, a government source said.
M23 rebels slam UN
KINSHASA — The main rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday denounced as an act of war the UN approving to send its first-ever “offensive” peacekeeping brigade to the region.Odinga’s firm vandalised
NAIROBI — Offices of East Africa Spectre Limited, a company owned by the family of Prime Minister Raila Odinga were Sunday night vandalised by unknown people.
The attackers are said to have taken off with two trucks of gas cylinders worth over Sh3 million. According to Hudson Chitala, the technical manager of the Company, two night
Tobacco exports gross US$86m
Rumbidzayi Zinyuke
ZIMBABWE has so far earned more than US$86 million from the sale of 21,4 million kilogrammes of tobacco