OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bombay | Sunday 11.00pm. SACHIN Tendulkar is to step down as India’s captain following the team’s disastrous performance under him on their recent tour of Australia. Tendulkar said on Sunday he would give up the job after the two-test home series against South Africa starting in Bombay on Thursday. He is staying on […]

TWO people were killed as tropical cyclone Eline battered the island of Madagascar, causing heavy damage to the capital Antananarivo and in two towns on the east coast, rescue services said on Friday. The victims died in a mudslide in Antananarivo, where trees were uprooted, roofs torn off and electricity and telephone lines cut when […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bulawayo | Friday 6.45pm. ENGLAND muddled their way to a one wicket victory over Zimbabwe on Friday to take a 2-0 the four-match series. The tourists almost threw away a winning position at the Queen’s Sports Club when, with just 12 runs needed for victory and five wickets in hand, they lost four […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bombay | Saturday 11.00pm. SOUTH Africa made a solid start to their tour of India on Saturday, reaching 293 for six against an Indian Board XI. Openers Gary Kirsten and Herschelle Gibbs were soon into their stride and scored 104 for the first wicket. Kirsten was first out when he was beaten by […]

Mercedes Sayagues The queues for paraffin at the petrol stations were longer than the queues at the polling stations. Some of the four million people, or 80% of registered voters, who abstained must have been queuing. Others instead voted because paraffin, petrol and diesel are scarce but hardship is abundant. On two days, 1,33-million Zimbabweans […]

Sarah Bullen Last year the Insider Trading Directorate (ITD) dropped a minor bombshell on local markets by publishing a list of companies in whose shares insider trading was suspected. In January it added 10 more to its list of 43. Six claims have been settled, seven have been closed due to lack of evidence and […]

AFRICA’S largest single energy sector industrial plant, Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, will be officially opened in April by President Olusegun Obasanjo, the company said. The plant has been operating since last October and the second of its two units was completed this week. The official opening had been planned for November but was delayed after […]

Bob Fisher SAILING Days before the start of the America’s Cup, New Zealand’s defence has come under fire – and not solely from their Italian challengers. The Kiwi skipper Russell Coutts and his crew are at odds with Team New Zealand chief executive Sir Peter Blake and his team responsible for the defence of the […]

Four hours from the summit of Everest, Cathy O’Dowd came across a stricken climber. She faced a brutal choice: to risk her own life in a doomed rescue – or to push on to the top. Here she explains why she left the barely breathing body I stared at the body, blinking in disbelief. We […]