Former Australia rugby league captain Steve Rogers was found dead in his Sydney apartment, his club said on Tuesday. Rogers (51) was general manager at National Rugby League club Cronulla Sharks, based in Sydney’s southern outskirts, and father of dual rugby league and rugby union international Mat Rogers.
The holder of a British lottery ticket worth nearly £10-million (about R109-million) lost it all on Monday, when the six-month deadline for claiming the winnings expired. Most likely, the unlucky winner, from Doncaster in South Yorkshire in northern England, simply forgot to check the ticket.
Rescuers on Tuesday searched through debris and mud for victims of flash floods that inundated villages in Indonesia’s East Java as the death toll rose to 57, officials said. Environmentalists have blamed the disaster on rampant illegal logging on the island of Java, one of the world’s most densely populated.
A new security flaw exposing hundreds of millions of Windows PCs to easy infiltration by hackers worsened over the New Year weekend, with Microsoft failing to issue an official patch on Monday. The flaw stems from the way the Windows operating system treats image files.
Seven yachts competing in the gruelling around-the-world Volvo Ocean Race set sail from Cape Town on Monday in light winds for the second and most dangerous leg of the global dash. A shot from the starter’s cannon at 1pm local time signalled the start of the 6 100-nautical-mile leg.
Two mountain fires, fanned by a strong south-westerly wind, burned out of control in the Boland on Monday night, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported. One of the fires was raging in Du Toit’s Kloof at Donkerhoek and the second above Dewdale on the Hottentots Holland flank.
Australia hit back with three wickets but South Africa’s run grind continued on the second day of the third cricket Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday. Century-maker Ashwell Prince (119) and wicketkeeper Mark Boucher (5) fell to contentious umpiring decisions in the middle session.
South Africans are quite optimistic about 2006, a Gallup International Voice of the People survey shows. While almost half (48%) of the 52Â 000 world citizens who were interviewed in the global survey felt that 2006 would be a better year than 2005, about 60% of South Africans believed it would be better.
The hours may be too long to be legal, and the stress is like no other job in politics, but being Britain’s Prime Minister has its rewards, Tony Blair is telling visitors to his official website. In a show of candor for the public that re-elected his Labour Party to a third straight term last year, Downing Street has put together a ”day in the life of Tony” film.
South Africans Jacques Kallis and Ashwell Prince blunted Australia’s bowlers with a record century stand after the home team’s early success, supporting skipper Graeme Smith’s decision to bat in the final cricket Test Monday.