Australia’s most notorious outlaw Ned Kelly, dead for 126 years, is again eluding authorities. Kelly, who became a folk hero of Australia’s colonial past with his gangs’ daring bank robberies and police shoot-outs, was hanged for his crimes in 1880 and buried in a mass prison grave.
The Cutty Sark, a London landmark and the world’s last surviving 19th century tea clipper, was severely damaged in a blaze on Monday. Flames and black smoke shot high into the sky above the dry dock on the banks of the River Thames where the boat has stood as a major tourist attraction for more than 50 years.
The World Bank’s executive director Eckhard Deutscher said on Monday that the organisation needed a new strategy after president Paul Wolfowitz was forced out of his position over a pay scandal involving his girlfriend. Deutscher said that the bank must work to improve communication and motivate its workers.
Salman Butt and Yasir Hameed hit half centuries and Pakistan beat World Cup runner-up Sri Lanka by 98 runs on Sunday to claim the three-match Warid Cup series. Pakistan posted imposing 313 for nine in the allotted 50 overs, and then dismissed Sri Lanka for 215 in 39.5 overs to take a 2-0 lead in the series.
South African furniture retailer Lewis’s full-year normalised headline earnings per share rose 23% to 654,4 cents, the company said on Monday. The retailer said merchandise sales for the year to end-March were up 15,4% at R1,8-billion, with normalised operating profit 18% higher at R859,9-million.
Egyptian police detained a second batch of 14 leading members of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood in the Nile Delta in dawn raids on Monday, the Brotherhood said. The detentions bring to about 39 the number of members held since Saturday morning.
Former Wallabies’ coach Eddie Jones Monday parted company with Super 14 wooden spooners Queensland Reds by what Queensland Rugby said was ”mutual agreement”. Jones, who was axed as Wallabies coach in late 2005 after a series of poor results, offered his resignation to QRU chairperson Peter Lewis.
China’s Three Gorges dam, the world’s largest hydropower project, is retaining huge amounts of sediment and nutrients and causing significant erosion in the downstream reaches of the Yangtze River. Official Chinese press reports say the build-up of silt in the Three Gorges reservoir is under control.
Venezuela is to give the American actor Danny Glover almost $18-million to make a film about a slave uprising in Haiti, with President Hugo Chávez hoping the historical epic will sprinkle Hollywood stardust on his effort to mobilise world public opinion against imperialism and Western oppression.
Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) president Willie Madisha was optimistic that teaching would resume in Khutsong on Monday. ”Teachers have agreed, they are going back to classes, education will happen,” he said on Sunday following a meeting with teachers and parents.