Togo warned football team from the African Cup on Saturday following a rebel attack on the convoy team that killed at least two government spokesman Pascal Bodjona Togo, said that the government of Togo has decided to warn the team, "Bodjona said." We can not be in a state such a dramatic African Cup competitions continue. This is necessary because the players in shock. "The team was to travel overland on Friday to Cabinda for the tournament, which begins on Sunday, when the convoy they were sprayed by gunfire, killing at least two. And Rebels in the oil-rich Angola confessed bag charge answered.
Serena touches down
Australian Open defending women's champion Serena Williams arrived in Sydney today looking forward to an early warm-up match against returning Belgian, Justine Henin.
Williams will play the lead-in Medibank Sydney International ahead of her title defence, and today was drawn to potentially play Henin in the second round.
"It's good. It will be a good test for her, and for me," Williams said.
Williams, who has a first round bye in Sydney, said she didn't feel any pressure to retain her top ranking, even though the Belgian wonder women are threatening her status.
"I don't think about it a lot. I've got a lot on my plate. Everyone assumes that I'm No.1 anyway," said Williams, who will be striving for her fifth AO title coming 18 January.
My main goals are always to stay healthy, and that's a huge goal for any athlete.
"For me, it's all about doing the best that I can. Obviously I love playing well in all the grand slams and I hate to lose, regardless of where it is.
"Whenever I play, I give 200 per cent and whether that's becoming No.1 as a result or becoming No.50, it doesn't matter as long as you enjoy what you do."
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British reporter embedded with U.S. marines killed in Afghanistan
An explosion in southern Afghanistan killed a British journalist, a U.S. marine and an Afghan soldier, the British military said Sunday. The Sunday Mirror's defense correspondent Rupert Hamer, 39, and photographer Philip Coburn, 43, who accompanied U.S. Marines patrol Saturday when their vehicle was traveling in was hit by a bomb in the Nawa emergency, the Defense Ministry said. Coburn and four marines seriously injured in the blast, the military said. The Sunday Mirror says that Hamer and Coburn had flown to the region on New Year's Eve and is embedded with the U.S. military. Their journey was to have lasted for a month, the newspaper said. Both are veterans of reporting from conflict zones. Hamer was the fifth trip to Afghanistan, while Coburn previously reported from Afghanistan, Iraq and Rwanda. "Rupert believes that the only place to report the war from the front lines, and as our defense correspondent he wanted to be embedded with U.S. marines at the beginning of a wave of those vital to southern Afghanistan," Sunday Mirror editor Tina Weaver said the statement. Hamer is survived by his wife Helen and three small children, the paper said. Defense Minister Bob Ainsworth said Hamer and Coburn with her in the latest trip to Afghanistan and that he was "impressed by the hard work and professionalism." My deepest thoughts and sympathy to the families, friends and colleagues of both men at this very sad time, "Ainsworth said. Hamer is the second journalist killed in Afghanistan in two weeks. Calgary Herald reporter Michelle Lang, 34, was killed in an explosion December 30 along with four Canadian soldiers.-With files from The Canadian Press.