Pace bowler Mohammad Asif took his maiden five-wicket haul in Test cricket for Pakistan on Monday to restrict Sri Lanka to 267-8 wickets in their first innings at stumps on the first day of the second Test. After skipper Inzamam ul-Haq elected to bowl first after winning the toss, Asif bowled with accuracy, moving the ball both ways on a seaming pitch.
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Yuvraj Singh’s smashing century led India to a 49-run victory on Monday in the third limited-overs international against England, giving the home team a 3-0 lead in the seven-match series. Singh’s blazing 103, his seventh one-day century, helped India post 294-6 in 50 overs. In reply, England were bowled out for 245 in 48.5 overs, despite a defiant 93 by Paul Collingwood.
Faded pop superstar Michael Jackson was on Friday crowned as the United States’s most foolish person in 2006, narrowly beating out trigger-happy US Vice-President Dick Cheney for the title. The 47-year-old "King of Pop" snatched the dishonour for the fourth year running.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma does not think he placed his rape accuser at risk of HIV/Aids or any other sexually transmitted disease by not using a condom, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Monday. Zuma is accused of raping a family friend at his Johannesburg home in November last year and he spent the morning explaining that the two had sex after he massaged her.
The famous Winchester rifle glorified in American Westerns may have fired its last shot as a plant where it had been manufactured since 1866 closed its doors last week. One hundred eighty-six employees of the United States Repeating Arms Company plant located in New Haven, Connecticut, were thanked for their work on Friday, two days after the facility stopped all manufacturing activity.
Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo dropped his clearest hint yet that he hopes to stay on if Parliament approves a contested proposition to change term limits, he said in an interview published on Monday. ”The reforms that we are putting in place have to be anchored, anchored in legislation, anchored in institutions,” Obasanjo told the United States newspaper, Washington Post.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma described to the Johannesburg High Court in detail on Monday how he had sex with the woman who has accused him of rape. He went to her bedroom on the night of November 2 last year after finishing work, because she wanted to tell him something, Zuma testified.
The National Broadcasting Board of Botswana has extended the offer of a broadcast licence to Black Entertainment Satellite Television (BEStv) located in Gaborone, Botswana and owned by Black Earth Communications (BEC) based in Johannesburg.
Andrew Jones, representative for BEStv, said on Monday: "Clearly we are delighted by this offer."
In a move designed to curb further environmental degradation, Tanzania has ordered the eviction of pastoralists from forests and banned the use of thin plastic bags. In a weekend address to the nation, Vice-President Ali Sheni blamed the East Africa nation’s deteriorating environment on destructive and unchecked human activity.