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/ 20 January 2008
Cape Cobras coach Shukri Conrad believes that national coach Mickey Arthur is doing the country a disservice by not including batsman JP Duminy in the national squad. Conrad made his plea after Duminy, who continues to put pressure on the top players, scored another hundred last weekend in the SuperSport Series.
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/ 20 January 2008
South Africa’s Ashleigh Simon and Laurette Maritz have all but ruled themselves out of winning the World Cup of Women’s Golf at Sun City after carding a level par 72 in round two on Saturday for an overall score of four under par for the tournament. Overnight leaders Korea shared the lead with the Philippines at 11-under.
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/ 20 January 2008
The Diamond Eagles proved with their victory of 82 runs over the Dolphins at the Outsurance Oval in Bloemfontein on Saturday that they are the SuperSport Series cricket champions for the 2007/08 season. It was the central franchise’s sixth trophy out of a possible 11 since the franchise system was introduced.
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/ 20 January 2008
A rattled Roger Federer was given a major scare in a five-set epic at the Australian Open on Saturday, but he avoided the fate of number-two seed Svetlana Kuznetsova who skidded out of the tournament. Other casualties included women’s sixth seed Anna Chakvetadze and men’s seventh seed Fernando Gonzalez.
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/ 20 January 2008
The Stormers scored a runaway victory of 72-10 in their warm-up match against the Boland Cavaliers at Wellington on Saturday after leading 24-0 at half-time. The Stormers scored 12 tries, of which six were converted. It was a typical pre-season match with plenty of mistakes on both sides.
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/ 20 January 2008
Australia’s Lleyton Hewitt says behind-the-scenes scheduling dramas unsettled his build-up to his big Australian Open match with Marcos Baghdatis that led to the latest finish in grand-slam history. Meanwhile, fifth seed Maria Sharapova brushed aside fellow Russian Elena Dementieva and Justine Henin stormed into the quarterfinals.
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/ 20 January 2008
An armada of robot submarines and marine sensors is to be deployed across the Atlantic, from Florida to the Canary Islands, to provide early warning that the Gulf Stream might be failing, an event that would trigger cataclysmic freezing in Britain for decades. Without the Gulf Stream, the United Kingdom would be as cold as Canada in winter.
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/ 20 January 2008
New anti-smoking laws in Germany have triggered a rebellion — and campaigners for smokers’ rights have been quick to draw on the comparison between the recent clampdown and the little-known nationwide tobacco ban introduced by the Nazis in 1941 as part of their quest for bodily and racial purity.
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/ 20 January 2008
The Dutch government is bracing itself for violent protests following the scheduled broadcast this week of a provocative anti-Muslim film by a radical right-wing politician who has threatened to broadcast images of the Qur’an being torn up and otherwise desecrated.
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/ 20 January 2008
The presidential primaries have thrown up almost constant shocks and surprises. But there is one thing that stunned everyone in politics: the unexpected impact of Chuck Norris. Of course, as many TV villains can testify, no one ever sees Chuck Norris coming. Or at least not until it’s too late. Then he kicks you in the face.