Vodafone shares surged as investors bet that the cellphone company was ready to scale back its global operations after the apparent victory of chief executive Arun Sarin in a boardroom row. The company has already agreed to a deal to sell its Japanese business while its partner in the United States, Verizon, expressed interest in buying out Vodafone.
Unburdened from a doping taint, Australia reverted to usual Commonwealth Games form on Friday with its athletes capturing half of the gold medals on the second day of competition. A reprieve for Melbourne 2006 wasn’t the last word for weightlifting, however, with an investigation launched into the sport after spate of doping cases and accusations.
I watched with pain last year when your balance sheets were splashed in the media. I empathised with your humiliations. At one stage I felt so pained, I did not want to see or hear any further media reports. I write this article with the same sense of empathy. This time, however, you are not the victim but the agent.
He won’t win the tournament but 12-year-old Vanuatan table tennis player Yoshua Shing has won the hearts of Commonwealth Games spectators. The softly-spoken student is pulling in the punters to the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre who want to catch a glimpse of the competition’s youngest participant who watches cartoons when he’s not playing ping pong.
For the manne down at the Dorsbult Bar, swimmer Roland Schoeman is something of a superhero. But when he appeared on News24 this week, Lemmer suddenly noticed a nasty likeness to Willem Dafoe, aka the Green Goblin of Spider-Man fame. Is Roland destined for Tinseltown as the Green and Gold Goblin?
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United States and Iraqi forces on Thursday launched a massive airborne operation north of Baghdad, involving over 50 aircraft and more than 1Â 500 troops, to flush out rebels loyal to al-Qaeda’s Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, US and Iraqi officials said.
Australia dominated the first day of the first Castle Lager Test at Newlands on Thursday. They dismissed the home team for 205 forty minutes after tea, and at the close were 63-1 in reply. Australia seam bowler Stuart Clark started his Test career in the best possible way, with a five-wicket haul.
Struggling state arms-making conglomerate Denel is about to begin unbundling core divisions in the most radical restructuring since its establishment in April 1992, Financial Mail reports in its March 17 edition. The move signals a return to privatisation of Denel for the first time since the government called off a partial merger in 2003.