Swiss world number one Roger Federer and American fourth seed Andy Roddick advanced to the quarterfinals of the ,9-million ATP and WTA hard-court tournament in Miami with triumphs on Tuesday. Federer dispatched 37th-ranked Russian Dmitry Tursunov 6-3, 6-3 in only 58 minutes.
Michael Schumacher said on Wednesday he is confident he can improve on his disappointing formula-one campaign of last year, thanks to his new, improved Ferrari. The seven-times world champion is hoping to bounce back at this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix.
Arsenal moved halfway toward their first appearance in the Champions League semifinals with a 2-0 victory over Italian league leaders Juventus on Tuesday and showed Patrick Vieira they don’t miss him at all. Goals by Cesc Fabregas and Thierry Henry gave the Gunners a quarterfinals first-leg lead that they defend next week in Turin.
Astronomers and the simply curious have flocked to Libya, reputedly the best place in the world to view Wednesday’s total eclipse of the sun, as the former pariah state bids for tourist dollars. The north African desert nation opened its air and sea ports to 7 000 eclipse lovers from 47 countries.
Gold exploration company Wits Gold was likely to list on the JSE in the middle of April as part of the company’s strategy and to increase the company’s profile, chief executive officer Marc Watchorn said on Wednesday. In 2004, the company acquired gold resources from AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields and Harmony Gold.
There could be "inflationary consequences" for South Africa if economic growth was higher than the annual 4,5% rate shown by research to be the country’s potential output rate, according to South African Reserve Bank (SARB) governor Tito Mboweni.
Junior platinum miner Eland Platinum made its debut on the JSE on Wednesday after raising R525-million via a private placing. The capital is to go towards building the Elandsfontein platinum project at a cost of R1,4-billion, with peak funding of one billion rand.
China’s health ministry banned the sale of human organs on Tuesday in a move that could put pressure on the growing transplant tourism industry. According to tour operators, Britons and other foreigners have been paying tens of thousands of dollars for life-saving operations in China, where livers, kidneys, hearts and lungs are harvested from executed prisoners.
Vitamin salesman Matthias Rath has dropped his defamation claims against the South African Press Association (Sapa) and other media organisations. However, he was still suing the Democratic Alliance, its leader Tony Leon, its health spokesperson Diane Kohler-Barnard, and African National Congress MP Kader Asmal, said his lawyer.
After giving birth to healthy twins, Mrs A, a young Indian woman, handed them to a United States-based couple knowing she was unlikely to see them again. ”Her parents never knew what she was doing,” her mother-in-law confides. ”She told them she had a baby boy but he passed away.”