Chris Gayle’s 132 not out in his 100th one-day international took West Indies into the Natwest Series final with a seven-wicket win against England at Lord’s in London on Tuesday. Not even a total of 285 for seven could prevent England extending a losing-streak batting first that stretches back to last year’s World Cup.
The Olympic flame made a symbolic trip from Europe to Asia and back again on Tuesday when the Olympic global torch relay visited the Turkish city of Istanbul. The first of 125 bearers to carry the torch in Istanbul was Turkey’s only Fifa-accredited female referee, Lale Orta.
”While I was on holiday, a message was left on my cellphone from Mail & Guardian reporter Sam Sole, asking me to phone him about ”the Mdu Msomi” matter. Although Sole had been told that the matter was sub judice, he went ahead and published a story anyway (”Durban council probes R1-million ‘fowl play”’, June 4). eThekwini Metro’s Mike Sutcliffe exercises his right to reply.
The first breath of life eventually leads to the last exhale at death, but for whatever span that lies between, breathing is an unassuming, if essential, part of living. It seemed odd to me that one would need lessons in how to breathe. Yet people worldwide are turning to the intensive Art of Living course on lowering stress and finding renewed vigor and clarity through age-old Hindu breathing techniques.
Ralph Schumacher will leave Williams for Toyota in 2005 after signing a three-year deal, the Japanese formula-one team said on Wednesday. Toyota racing team principal Tsutomu Tomita said: ”He has proven himself to be an extremely quick racing driver in his career … his vast experience will be extremely beneficial to our team.”
Medical doctors are to seek leave to appeal against the Pretoria High Court’s dismissal of their constitutional challenge to regulations obliging them to acquire special licences to dispense medicine. The Department of Health said it will defend the legislation. It believes provisions for dispensing licences are legitimate.
Britain does not yet want to see its four nationals held at the Guantanamo Bay prison freed because it cannot guarantee they are not a security threat, Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday. The ”machinery” is not yet in place to ensure the British men will pose no risk to security if they return home, Blair said.
The Catholic Church is planning a further roll-out of its anti-retroviral (ARV) programme for HIV and Aids patients in South Africa, the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference said on Tuesday. In February this year the church started rolling out its programme to provide HIV and Aids ARV therapy at 22 of its facilities.
Robert Burchfield, a daring and innovative lexicographer who was chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionaries from 1971 to 1984, has died at the age of 81, Oxford University Press said on Tuesday. Burchfield once described the English language as ”a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib”.
The defence counsel for four young men accused of killing a black man and assaulting another in 2001 dismissed a state witness’s version as ”physically impossible” on Tuesday. Advocate Jaap Cilliers pointed out inconsistencies arising from cellphone records obtained for the day in question.