EINDHOVEN (ANP) - Ibrahim Afellay heeft zich zondagavond bij bondscoach Marco van Basten afgemeld voor de oefeninterland van Oranje tegen Oostenrijk. De middenvelder van PSV is niet fit genoeg om woensdag in Wenen te kunnen spelen. Hij kampt met een enkelblessure.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
Reuters - Hurricane Ike barreled toward Cuba as an
extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on Sunday and was forecast
to sweep into the central Gulf of Mexico as a large and
powerful storm echoing Hurricane Gustav.
