Milan (AFP) - Ghana's Sulley Muntari dramatically walked off the pitch while playing for Pescara at Cagliari on Sunday after his complaints of alleged racist abuse were met with a yellow card. The former AC Milan and Inter midfielder also angrily confronted Cagliari fans, shouting at them: This is my colour. Muntari could now face disciplin ...

Grand-Mbao (Sà nà gal) (AFP) - After months of waiting, 50-year-old Ndeye Khari Pouye has finally won the cagnotte de la tontine , a precious jackpot to help feed her chickens and maintain her livelihood. Sitting on a mat surrounded by other women wearing traditional Senegalese wide-sleeved boubou dresses, she struggles to contain her glee. ...

Agadir (Morocco) (AFP) - Moroccans who secretly converted to Christianity are demanding the right to practise their faith openly in a country where Islam is the state religion and apostasy is condemned. At an apartment in a working-class part of the southern town of Agadir, Mustapha listened to hymns emanating from a hi-fi under a silver cruci ...

Sydney (AFP) - The unbeaten Canterbury Crusaders won a ninth Super Rugby game this weekend, but the result was soured by an injury to All Blacks skipper Kieran Read. The rampaging Crusaders squashed the threatened South African team Central Cheetahs 48-21 in Bloemfontein to stretch their lead in the New Zealand conference to four points, but the ...