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/ 11 October 2006
Matt Giteau is likely to be tried at scrumhalf on the Wallabies’ European rugby tour next month after the injury withdrawal of first-choice number nine Sam Cordingley, coach John Connolly said on Wednesday. Cordingley, promoted to first-choice after skipper George Gregan opted to stay at home, pulled out of the tour on Wednesday with a persistent foot injury.
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/ 11 October 2006
A conflict over beer sponsors appears to have been the driving force in Allan Border’s decision to stand down from his role as an Australian selector, reports said on Wednesday. The former Test captain and prominent cricketing personality recently fronted television advertisements here for XXXX beer, which is a competitor of Foster’s, a major sponsor of Cricket Australia.
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/ 11 October 2006
The imposition of quotas on Chinese textiles "is going to present challenges" to the South African Revenue Services (Sars), its commissioner Pravin Gordhan told Members of Parliament on Wednesday. He said South Africa had, in terms of the memorandum of understanding with China, taken the responsibility "for controlling the quota".
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/ 11 October 2006
United States women will be out to gain a psychological edge over their rivals when the gymnastics world championships begin in Aarhus, Denmark, this weekend. With the 2008 Beijing Olympics less than two years away, the leading nations will be determined to prove their worth under a new scoring system, which will be used at a major global event for the first time.
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/ 11 October 2006
An inquiry has found that South African Broadcasting Corporation’s head of news Snuki Zikalala has broken the broadcaster’s own code of conduct, media analyst Anton Harber wrote on Wednesday. The inquiry found that Zikalala made a misleading statement when denying the existence of a blacklist which banned certain analysts.
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/ 11 October 2006
The facts are well-known — from 1933 the Nazis murdered more than 200Â 000 physically and mentally disabled people, including a cousin of Adolf Hitler believed to have been schizophrenic. But it has taken more than 60 years for an exhibition to trace in detail the fate of the first victims of Hitler’s sinister "health" policies, based on his obsession with racial purity that led to the Holocaust.
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/ 11 October 2006
Having stadiums ready for the 2010 soccer World Cup would be held hostage by cement imports, as local producers struggle to keep up with demand, Business Report said on Wednesday. It said the same applied to other infrastructure development plans, including the Gautrain rapid rail link.
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/ 11 October 2006
The United States is holding out hope for a breakthrough on world trade talks in the next six months, but Washington’s top trade official cautioned on Tuesday that the Doha round could be hampered by sensitive negotiations on farm trade and the US political calendar.
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/ 11 October 2006
Tiger Woods has won six United States PGA Tour events in a row and is producing some of the best golf of his career, but coach Hank Haney says there is still room for improvement. Haney, who helped guide Woods through a swing change that has revitalised his game, said the world number one has been hitting his irons so accurately that his short game has been neglected.
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/ 11 October 2006
China has warned image-conscious citizens against using the rack to lengthen their legs after several such operations went badly wrong, Xinhua news agency said. Ten people were reported to have been disfigured after they underwent stretching surgery last year, it added.