Today, we look at some exciting events elsewhere in the world.

Ever seen cops like these before? Well, meet Iraqi female police cadets in training with weapons at the police academy in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq.

Lushy Banton (left), winner of the New Jersey Reggae Awards Song of the Year award; with Downtown Pat Brown, lingerie designer and Ian Williams, author of the book 'Rum' at a rum tasting party at the 151 Reggae Internet Show in Newark, New Jersey, recently. Williams, a world authority on rum, described Haiti's Barbancourt 15-year reserve as the world's finest rum, with Guyana's El Dorado and Jamaica's Appleton among the top five brands. - Contributed

President of the 2010 World Cup organising committee, Dr Danny Jordaan, left, AC Milan Dutch midfielder Clarence Seedorf (centre), and Inter Milan Chilean midfielder Luis Jimenez at yesterday's news conference in Milan, Italy. Jordaan said he expects the construction of all stadia to be completed by October 2009.