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/ 26 February 2008
Australian fast bowler Brett Lee defended his team’s on-field behaviour on Tuesday and played down talk of another rift with India. The lingering ill-feeling between the sides surfaced again when Indian paceman Ishant Sharma was fined 15% of his match fee for a verbal altercation with Australian batsman Andrew Symonds during Sunday’s tri-series clash in Sydney.
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/ 26 February 2008
India thrashed Sri Lanka by seven wickets at Hobart on Tuesday to book their place in the tri-series finals against Australia. India wrapped up a comprehensive victory with more than 17 overs to spare when they bowled Sri Lanka out for 179 before reaching their target for the loss of just three wickets.
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/ 26 February 2008
The South African women’s hockey team annihilated Russia 6-0 in the opening match of the Spar Tri-Nations at the Randburg Sports Complex on Monday, courtesy of a Cindy Brown hat-trick. The South Africans are fresh off the back of a training camp and a three-match series played against Canada last week — which they won 2-0.
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/ 26 February 2008
There is a higher recruitment drive in Zimbabwe’s engineering and related sectors due to skills flight than in any other sector, the state-controlled Herald reported on Tuesday. Since the beginning of the year, the engineering field has accounted for 47% of job advertisements in the press.
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/ 26 February 2008
Americans will have to cope without blended Frappuccino and blueberry coffee cake for a few hours on Tuesday as Starbucks shuts its 7 100 company-owned stores for a nationwide barista training session. Starbucks has ordered the unprecedented three-hour afternoon closure as part of an effort to improve coffee quality.
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/ 26 February 2008
Simon Mann, the suspected British mastermind of a failed 2004 coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea, has yet to have any date set for his trial, the country’s defence minister said on Monday. ”There is no date fixed but, as we have already said, we want [the trial] to take place quickly,” Antonio Obama Ndong said.
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/ 26 February 2008
French President Nicolas Sarkozy sharply criticised the chairperson of scandal-hit bank Société Générale in an interview published on Tuesday, saying his response to billion-euro losses was "not normal". "When the president of a company sees losses of that magnitude and does not draw conclusions from it, that’s not normal," Sarkozy said.
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/ 26 February 2008
The United Nations on Monday warned that it no longer has enough money to keep global malnutrition at bay this year in the face of a dramatic upward surge in world commodity prices, which have created a ”new face of hunger”. ”We will have a problem in coming months,” said Josette Sheeran, the head of the UN’s World Food Programme.
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/ 26 February 2008
Last week, the government threatened to disband the Media Council of Kenya after the group announced that it would survey media conduct in the East African nation, including over the December 27 elections that have sparked widespread violence. Kwamboka Oyaro spoke to Peter Mutie, chair of the council’s ethics and publicity subcommittee
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/ 25 February 2008
The African National Congress (ANC) is not conducting a forensic audit into empowerment deals and tenders that were received by its investment company, Chancellor House, the party said on Monday. ”The ANC wishes to place on record that it is neither conducting an investigation nor a forensic audit into the company or any of its transactions.”