BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (AP): Unfancied Botswana is on track for its first appearance at the African Cup of Nations while continental heavyweights Cameroon, Ivory Coast and South Africa all won their opening qualifiers on Saturday for the 2012 tournament in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea.

GUADALAJARA, Mexico (AP) — Christian Benitez scored after only 40 seconds to set up Ecuador's 2-1 win over Mexico in a friendly Saturday. It was Ecuador's first victory over Mexico in 14 years, spoiling the debut of Mexico's interim coach Efrain Flores.

The boys are finding out where soccer can take them. Among 917 soccer teams from around the world, two Wyoming 307 teams nearly made it to final rounds in the Schwan’s USA Cup in Blaine, Minn., July 10-17.

WILMINGTON - John Sibley Williams, born and raised in Wilmington, has had over one hundred of his works either published or forthcoming, and is set to have his first chapbook, A Pure River, added to his collection.

She was a great Mom, Wife, writer, race and road car driver, businessperson, humanitarian and she was fluent in English and French and could get along in Italian which helped her immensely in writing for European, English and American ...

French and English are the official languages. With more than 50 percent of its population speaking French, Montreal is, according to Wikipedia, "the second largest primarily French-speaking city in the world, after Paris". ...

Indians have a trully wonderful command of the English language, using terminology, phrasology and grammatic patterns that have ceased to be regularly used in Britain. This largely comes down to an English education system passed down ... A few examples I've seen in my travels: driver-cum-bodyguard; chef-cum-cleaner; barber-cum-counsellor; bed-cum-table; hotel-cum-disco(!); hotel-cum-brothel(!) and butcher-cum-doctor(!). But another favourite Indian-ism is their almost ...