Kevin Pietersen’s first Test hundred against India set up a strong position for England at stumps on the fourth day at Lord’s on Sunday. The tourists — dismissed for a meagre 201 in their first innings — were 137 for three at the close, needing a further 243 runs to reach their target of 380.
Michael Rasmussen and Alberto Contador will resume their battle for the yellow jersey in the 15th stage of the Tour de France, a 196km ride from Foix to Loudenvielle on Monday. Dane Rasmussen leads his Spanish rival by two minutes and 23 seconds heading to the second Pyrenean stage.
Old media enter into an uneasy alliance with new media on Monday night to grill the Democratic candidates in the United States’s 2008 presidential race. CNN and <i>YouTube</i>, are holding a joint debate in which the public have sent in video-recorded questions for Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the other candidates.
Stocks rose slightly at midday on Monday, reversing earlier losses, but overall trading was muted ahead of another wave of corporate earnings reports and inflation data later in the week. At noon, the all-share index was up just 0,09%, thanks to a 1,06% gain in the platinum-mining index.
A Nigerian woman weightlifter and an Angolan male swimmer have tested positive for banned substances at the All Africa Games. Blessed Udoh, a medallist in the 48kg category, tested positive for diuretics, Zohir Bensohane, a Games official in charge of anti-doping control, told reporters.
United States and Afghan soldiers surrounded a district in central Afghanistan where 23 South Korean Christian aid workers were being held hostage on Sunday night as their Taliban captors extended a deadline for their demands by 24 hours. The insurgents, who snatched the South Koreans from a bus at gunpoint on Thursday, have threatened to start executing the group.
Motorists can be expected to pay more for fuel soon as crude prices soared again to nearly $77 a barrel. Turmoil in the international oil markets — due to strong demand, geopolitical instability and a shortage of refining capacity — will put further upward pressure on forecourt prices.
Philomena Appiah’s factory is the surprising source of thousands of American uniforms and workwear items, tailored by Ghanaian seamstresses and shipped across the Atlantic to stores in the United States as part of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa).
Last week France and Germany abandoned the dual-nationality management structure at Eads, the owner of Airbus, in an attempt to turn the struggling aerospace and defence group into a "normal" global company. The move will bring an end to the strife that has crippled the group for the past two years.
Africa’s east coast could go from having no undersea broadband cables to four. The planned East Africa Submarine System, touted as the solution for the bandwidth-starved continent, has been plagued by political squabbles that have resulted in it splintering into four mooted cable projects.