Cup 2010 in South Africa unveiled new security measures to protect

players and spectators.

The country has the second highest murder rate in the world, after Colombia,

and violent crime is not uncommon.

London: Singer Bono has teamed up with footie idol Didier Drogba to raise funds for fight against Aids. The U2 frontman said he aims to "turn up the heat" on politicians over the HIV and Aids crisis in South Africa.

Work on the £2m refurbishment of The Goddard Arms in Swindon Old Town has commenced with a view to open the hotel and bar in time for Christmas.

One of the key lessons of the US Counterinsurgency doctrine published under General Petreaus in 2006 is that success in counterinsurgency operations requires much more than military success. There are plenty of cases in the history of insurgencies in which the side that won the military victory still lost the war.