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The Irish are famed around the world for knowing how to throw a party. Now Ireland’s cricketers are not just joining world cricket’s biggest club, they’re winning matches and lots of new friends. Ireland’s comfortable 74-run defeat of Bangladesh on Sunday in the Super Eights is the amateur side’s second victory at the World Cup.
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Struggling through in the Super Eights, South Africa and England meet at the Kensington Oval on Tuesday chasing the last place in the semifinals. Tuesday’s game is South Africa’s last in the Super Eights, while England must still play the West Indies in the final match before the semifinals.
Gauteng must plan ahead if it wants to ease problems arising from increased migration, President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday. It was clear that metropolitan areas like Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban would attract people ”from elsewhere in the country”, Mbeki said during an imbizo in Braamfontein on Sunday.
Steffi Graf required three stitches after husband Andre Agassi inadvertently hit her in the face with his racket during a fundraiser that followed the final of the United States Clay Court Championships on Sunday. Graf and Agassi were holding hands — her left to his right — while rallying with a couple of youngsters when Agassi’s follow-through struck his wife in the face.
It’s been a central plank of United States President George Bush’s social policy: to stop teenagers having sex. More than -billion of federal money has been spent on promoting abstinence — posters printed, television adverts broadcast and entire education programmes devised for hundreds of thousands of girls and boys.
A group of former political prisoners are going to court to try to remove businessman Tokyo Sexwale from a trust for ex-political prisoners, media repots said on Sunday. Sexwale heads the Makana Trust, established to look after the interests of former political prisoners and their dependents.
SA Airlink pilots have called off a planned strike on Monday over wages, their trade union, Solidarity, said on Sunday night. ”All Airlink flights will depart on schedule from tomorrow [Monday] morning. There will be no disruption of flights,” said union spokesperson Dirk Hermann.
Robbie Keane scored two goals and set up another on Sunday in Tottenham’s 3-3 draw at Wigan in the Premier League, and Chelsea advanced to the FA Cup final with a 2-1 win over Blackburn. Tottenham rallied three times against its relegation-threatened opponents.
Hillary Clinton appears to have been pipped at the post by her main rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama, in the first round of their struggle — raising cash to pay for the primary campaign. The New York senator declared that in the first three months of the year she had raised -million.
Concern was mounting on Sunday night for the safety of the kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston after a group in Gaza issued a statement saying he had been killed. It was impossible to verify the claim, which was made in Arabic and sent by email to Palestinian journalists in Gaza from a previously unknown group.