Sub-Saharan Africa

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson has welcomed a move by the French soccer club Strasbourg to take legal action against some supporters for incitement to racial hatred.

Irish public television broadcaster RTE has seen off a rival bid from satellite giant BSkyB to clinch the television rights to the Six Nations rugby tournament.

Australia's world champion rugby team will stage a test match in Perth for each of the next five years under an agreement between the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) and the Western Australian government.

Beer, usually greeted with relish in rugby clubs worldwide, is causing controversy in South Africa.

One-day cricket will moves indoors this week for the first of a three-match series featuring Australia and South Africa, the limited overs' game's fiercest rivals.

UK stadium architects Arup Associates have been appointed to cerate a design for Hull?s Community Super Stadium complex.

FIFA president Sepp Blatter emerged triumphantly from his organisation's biennial Congress on Saturday only to find the fragile unity of world soccer's governing body crumbling badly around him.

South African soccer officials have confirmed they were dropping their campaign to get FIFA to vote again on the venue for the 2006 World Cup finals.

FIFA is to implement a new rotation system in awarding the rights to host its premier property, the World Cup.

FIFA has firmly rejected South Africa's request for arbitration over last month's vote to award the 2006 World Cup finals to Germany.

Any money made by Hansie Cronje from a book deal, reportedly being negotiated on his behalf, or from other deals stemming from the match-fixing crisis in South African cricket will not come under the scrutiny of the King commission of inquiry.

The FIFA executive committee meet today for the first time since the controversial vote on the 2006 World Cup host.

FIFA says it has still not received any official confirmation from South Africa that it wishes to take the 2006 World Cup decision to arbitration.

South Africa cricket chief Ali Bacher hopes his replacement will be appointed before the new season begins in two months - freeing him to concentrate on 2003 World Cup organisation.

A multi-million rand community sports facility, sponsored by the UK aerospace and defence company, BAE Systems has opened in KwaNobuhle, Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape.

Germany said there was nothing wrong with the vote which made them the hosts of the 2006 soccer Word Cup finals.