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/ 22 November 2007
World number one Roger Federer defeated retired United States legend Pete Sampras on Thursday for the second straight time in three days at an exhibition match in Kuala Lumpur. Both men held serve to take the first set to a tie-break, with the Swiss maestro inching ahead when Sampras hit a forehand into the net.
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/ 22 November 2007
International bodybuilding legend Reg Park (79) passed away in Johannesburg on November 22 from advanced skin cancer. ”In his dying moments he was talking in his sleep and training people and exercising them,” his son, Jon Jon, said. Jon Jon said Reg had suffered with the debilitating illness for eight months but had accepted that he was going to die.
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/ 22 November 2007
It may only be a short walk from its bustling neighbour Sake, but Kimoka is a ghost town. Homes are abandoned, the school is deserted and the brand-new church empty. Light streams in through the open door on to huge leather drums beside the pulpit. When the congregation fled, the drums became redundant.
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/ 22 November 2007
The second-in-command of Uganda’s notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) guerrillas was killed by firing squad on October 2 ”together with many others”, on orders of the elusive rebel leader Joseph Kony, a government newspaper, the New Vision, reported on Thursday.
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/ 22 November 2007
Jacques Kallis will play for South Africa in Friday’s Twenty20 international against New Zealand, captain Graeme Smith said on Thursday. Kallis, the nation’s leading run-scorer in Tests and one-day internationals, was controversially omitted from the squad for the Twenty20 World Championship, which they exited before the semifinal stage, hosted by South Africa in September.
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/ 22 November 2007
Sporadic riots broke out in the Senegalese capital on Thursday against a ban on street hawking the day after one of the country’s most violent protests in recent decades. Police said at least 200 people have been arrested following violent protests that rocked the otherwise stable West African country on Wednesday.
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/ 22 November 2007
Commonwealth leaders are aiming to reach a decision by the end of the weekend on whether to make former Belgian colony Rwanda a new member, the head of the 53-nation grouping said on Thursday. Commonwealth heads of government are meeting in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, from Friday.
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/ 22 November 2007
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6,7 rocked eastern Papua New Guinea on Thursday, causing some damage and plunging parts of the coastal city of Lae into darkness, officials and witnesses said. The quake hit just before 6.48pm local time with the epicentre about 400km north of the capital, Port Moresby.
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/ 22 November 2007
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was hosting a summit with the Palestinian and Jordanian leaders on Thursday as Arab foreign ministers mull whether to join a United States-sponsored peace conference next week. Mubarak met Jordan’s King Abdullah II in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss preparations for the conference.
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/ 22 November 2007
South African rugby boss Oregan Hoskins says he played a key role in helping outgoing Springbok coach Jake White survive his four-year tenure. Without his support, Hoskins said on Thursday, White would not have been able to continue in his role as coach of the national side. ”All I want to say is that my conscience is abundantly clear towards Jake. I’ve stood by Jake.”