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/ 27 January 2007
Santos did neighbours Ajax Cape Town a favour on Friday evening at the Athlone Stadium when they beat Silver Stars 2-0 after leading 1-0 at the interval in their Premier Soccer League encounter. The win keeps Ajax at the top of the log, one point ahead of Stars.
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/ 27 January 2007
Ireland skipper Brian O’Driscoll believes his team can make history by grabbing only the country’s second Grand Slam (beating all other teams in the Six Nations) and emulating their compatriots’ breakthrough triumph of 1948. He believes that now is the time for the Irish to come good.
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/ 27 January 2007
England batsman Ian Bell says his side hit rock bottom in their embarrassing nine-wicket loss to Australia in the latest one-day international in Adelaide. They were routed on Friday for just 110 by Australia in 34.3 overs and Bell, who top-scored with 35, said the loss was even more disappointing than their Ashes failures earlier in the tour.
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/ 27 January 2007
The United States government wants the world’s scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming, the media has learned. It says research into techniques such as giant mirrors in space or reflective dust pumped into the atmosphere would be ”important insurance” against rising emissions.
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/ 27 January 2007
Serena Williams destroyed Russian top seed Maria Sharapova 6-1 6-2 in the Australian Open final on Saturday to clinch her eighth Grand Slam title. Unseeded after a year plagued by injury, Williams made a mockery of the rankings by tearing the United States Open champion apart in just 63 minutes on the Rod Laver Arena.
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/ 27 January 2007
Former South African president FW de Klerk said on Friday that Afrikaans is under threat after regional police accused authorities of banning the language. Afrikaans-speaking police officers complained that officials in the Western Cape had declared English the only means of communication.
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/ 27 January 2007
African leaders gather next week to debate the conflicts holding back development on the world’s poorest continent, as well as the threat of global warming. Africa has been cursed by more conflicts than any other part of the world, and two of the bloodiest battlegrounds of recent years — the Sudanese region of Darfur and Somalia — will top the agenda.
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/ 27 January 2007
Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi came under fire in Parliament on Friday for inadequate control of firearms and problems over police vehicles, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported. An Auditor General’s report showed the number of stolen and lost firearms had tripled.
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/ 27 January 2007
Dedicated fans of English football club Plymouth Argyle can now literally die for their team after being given the opportunity to be buried in a coffin painted in the club’s green-and-white colours. A local undertaker is offering followers of the second-tier Championship team a new service where they can choose their own Argyle-themed funeral.
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/ 26 January 2007
Pakistan fought back after a first-innings collapse on the first day of the series-deciding third and final Test against South Africa at Newlands on Friday. South Africa were 131-5 at the close of play in reply to Pakistan’s 157 all out. Mohammad Yousuf saved Pakistan from total embarrassment, hitting more than half his team’s runs before being last man out.