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Ratko Mladic was the commander of troops from the break-away Bosnian Serb state during the violent break-up of Yugoslavia – remembered this week on the anniversary of the massacre at Srebrenica. … Read More »
At the French Open tennis, Samantha Stosur has become the first Australian to reach the final in a Grand Slam event for thirty years, defeating the fourth seed , Serbia’s Jelena Jankovic, 6-1, 6-2, in an hour (3.6.10).
(The last was Evonne Goolagong-Cawley at Wimbledon in 1980).
The seventh-seeded Australian said later she’d had a “bit of a slower heart rate” during the match than her earlier, hard-fought victory against the American favourite Serena Williams. … Read More »
The former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2002-8), Louise Arbour (picture), is to be the next President and CEO of the International Crisis Group — successor to the Australian, Gareth Evans.
American business forecasters are predicting an extremely difficult 2009 for the European economy, in comparison with their own financial future in the US.
However, European Central Bank officials do not share this disheartening view. … Read More »
European tennis stars have featured strongly at this years Australian warm-up tournaments, the Hopman Cup and the Brisbane International.
Not so the case for the Australian players, many of whom have been bowing-out in early rounds, disappointing local crowds…
No immediate reports of dancing in the streets in Europe — wrong time of day for all that — but clear signs of happiness over the election of Barack Obama, in America, (4.11.08, USA). … Read More »
New efforts are made to bring to justice, men wanted for mass murder in Bosnia; and an inquiry in Rwanda, into that country’s genocide, points a finger of blame at France. … Read More »