As in their previous appearance at Stellenbosch, the Cape Cobras raced to victory well before the tea break on the third day of the SuperSport Series match against the Eagles. Although there was some resistance from the visitors, the home seamers dominated proceedings and they ensured that the Eagles left only the most nominal of targets.
Spanish surgeons using cranes and ropes removed a 60kg mass of fat and liquid from the abdomen of a middle-aged woman in the procedure known as a tummy tuck. Francisco Javier Gabilondo, chief of plastic surgery at Hospital Cruces near the Basque city of Bilbao, said on Friday the operation was ”more spectacular than it was difficult”.
The Auckland Blues tore away the predictable facade of Super 14 rugby over the weekend, while the Canterbury Crusaders had their lack of depth exposed as the competition neared the half-way stage. The Crusaders remain at the top of the league, and the Wellington Hurricanes relied on a last minute try and a questionable decision to cling to second.
Coca-Cola has been heavily criticised for causing extreme water shortages in developing countries where supplies are scarce. New evidence from campaign group War on Want appears to show that Coca-Cola has had a serious impact in communities in several Indian states and in Latin America.
Supporters of Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai opened a two-day congress on Saturday, struggling not only against the autocratic rule of President Robert Mugabe but also against a damaging split in their own party. The meeting is the first since the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) split over whether to contest last November’s elections for a new upper house or Senate.
Former president Nelson Mandela at one stage asked PW Botha to re-enter politics and resume the leadership of the National Party, Botha says in a filmed interview with former South African Broadcasting Corporation journalist Cliff Saunders. In the interview Botha says it is well known that Mandela at his own request met him several times, in Cape Town and at Botha’s Wilderness home.
When president George Bush launched a high-profile series of speeches last week aimed at calming nerves about the Iraq war he chose to do so in the heart of Washington DC. At George Washington University, he asked the United States to stay the course through troubled times. It was a familiar message to an audience that had heard it all before.
It was not the grandiloquent send-off he might have hoped for. Instead of a triumphal state funeral, Slobodan Milosevic — the ”Butcher of the Balkans”, and the man who brought war and slaughter to former Yugoslavia — was ignominiously buried on Saturday in his back garden, next to his favourite lime tree.
A former Malaysian snake farm worker may have set a new world record after kissing a poisonous snake 51 times in three minutes, a report said on Sunday. Shahimi Abdul Hamid’s feat in kissing the 4,6m-long king cobra weighing 10kg 51 times in three minutes and one second was a record waiting to be verified, the <i>Sunday Star</i> newspaper said.
An English fan was so badly beaten at the the Commonwealth Games rugby sevens final he may need plastic surgery to repair his nose, but police denied on Saturday they were slow to react. Steve Hanson said he was punched, choked and threatened during the vicious assault during the final between New Zealand and England at Telstra Dome on Friday.