Manchester United moved five points clear in the English Premier League title race by scoring four straight goals to beat Everton 4-2 on Saturday as Chelsea drew 2-2 with Bolton. Other results on Saturday included: Blackburn 4, Charlton 1; Aston Villa 2, Manchester City 0; and Tottenham 3, Middlesbrough 2.
The Stormers piled the misery on the bottom-of-the-log Reds by thumping them 37-24 in a one-sided Super 14 match at Newlands on Saturday. Captain Luke Watson and left wing Brent Russell both scored a brace of tries in a match where the final score line did not reflect the home side’s dominance.
Billed as the ”derby of the damned”, the showdown between traditional rivals Orlando Pirates and Kaizer Chiefs evolved into a desperate 1-1 Premier Soccer League draw at Ellis Park on Saturday afternoon. Chiefs dominated the opening period against a listless Buccaneers.
Tensions in the Gaza Strip reached "an unprecedented high" on Saturday as Palestinians prepared for an expected Israeli military onslaught. Israeli tanks were massing at the border, fresh from a huge exercise to practise reoccupying the strip, while the Palestinians were making preparations of their own.
Estonia was on Saturday in the grip of its worst crisis since it won independence from the Soviet Union, after a second night of bloody ethnic rioting shook the capital. President Vladimir Putin expressed "most serious concern" about the violence in Tallinn after the Estonian government’s decision to remove a Soviet war memorial, the Kremlin said.
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Adam Gilchrist lived up to his billing as the most dangerous batsman in the one-day game with a record 149 as Australia won an unprecedented third straight World Cup final on Saturday in a match that ended in complete farce.
The trouble with celebrations of historical anniversaries is that other, less noble, dates are implied. Indeed, to insist that a particular day is a day of honour and remembrance is to suggest that the days on either side of it are monuments only to banality and lint.
A suicide car bomber detonated his payload on a crowded street near a revered Shi’ite shrine in the Iraqi city of Karbala on Saturday, killing at least 58 people and wounding nearly 170 others. ”Many of the wounded are women and children,” said a spokesperson for the Karbala health department.
The ACT Brumbies kept their slim Super 14 semifinal hopes alive and prevented defending champions Canterbury Crusaders from booking a home play-off match with a 15-6 win on Saturday. Wallabies flyhalf Stephen Larkham kicked a dropped goal with three minutes left to clinch the Brumbies’ fourth straight win.
For six weeks, Andre van Zijl has been pumping petrol around the clock at a petrol station in Knysna. Why? To raise awareness about HIV/Aids. The 57-year-old Aids campaigner aims to log 1Â 000 working hours this week in his latest publicity stunt to highlight the devastating scale of the Aids epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa.