adminDe Bruyne stars for City
LONDON. — In-form Kevin De Bruyne struck twice as English Premier League soccer leaders Manchester City overpowered Hull City 4-1 on Tuesday night to lead three top-flight teams into the…
Mueller irreplaceable
BERLIN. — Chelsea are the latest English Premier League soccer club reported to be chasing Germany forward Thomas Mueller, but as far as Bayern Munich are concerned their maverick star…
Neville in the hot seat
MADRID. — England assistant coach and Manchester United legend Gary Neville has been named Valencia boss for the rest of the season, the Spanish soccer side announced yesterday. The 40-year-old, who…
Match-fixer re-arrested
SINGAPORE. — A Singaporean accused of leading the world’s largest football match-fixing syndicate was rearrested in the city-state on Tuesday about a week after he was freed by the country’s…
Benzema misunderstood
PARIS. — Karim Benzema says his go-between role in the Mathieu Valbuena sextape blackmail case has been misunderstood as the Real Madrid striker prepared to explain himself on French TV…
No timetable for Woods
LOS ANGELES. — Former world number one golfer Tiger Woods said he had no timetable for his return as he struggles to regain fitness after back surgery, admitting that any…
Lawyer gets public backing
NAIROBI. — The lawyer probing alleged corruption and covering up of doping offences in Kenya’s national athletics federation has received “many” offers of people wanting to provide evidence, he said…
National infrastructure policy considerations
Phinias Tafa Infrastructure Report Since I started writing for this column I have discovered how people are desperate to have public infrastructure sorted. I have received a lot of applause.…
Council loses war on condemned buildings
Sydney Kawadza Senior Feature Writer Sometime in August 2012, the Harare City Council launched a blitz that condemned various buildings for flouting health and fire safety standards. Council declared the high-rise…
Stopping AIDS depends on ending violence against women
Lynette Madekunye Johannesburg — One of the 10 targets in the UNAIDS fast track strategy to End AIDS by 2020 released in October is that “90 percent of women and…