On Sunday afternoon, cricket went supersonic for the first time. For 10 years the needle had wobbled around the high 300s. But when Saeed Anwar retired and Shahid Afridi was permanently dropped down the Pakistani order, it seemed that the quest for one-day cricket’s final frontier had come to an end.
The tackling technique of Test forward Adrian Morley is again under scrutiny after he received a two-match National Rugby League ban for a high tackle in a club match last weekend. The Sydney Roosters had considered appealing the severity of Morley’s grade-three careless high tackle charge on South Sydney scrum-half Ben Walker but decided to accept a two-game ban.
The African National Congress announced its mayoral candidates for six metropolitan councils after a national working committee meeting on Monday. Nomaindia Mfeketo is the candidate for Cape Town, Duma Nkosi for Ekurhuleni, Obed Mlaba for eThekwini, Amos Masondo for Johannesburg, Nondumiso Maphazi for the Nelson Mandela metro and Gwen Ramokgopa for Tshwane.
Wriggling red worms in tap water have a number of Swartruggens residents in North West province up in arms, News24 reported on Tuesday. It said the worms, between 1mm and 15mm long, appeared in the ”creamy white” water running from taps in homes on Monday morning.
A ban on kite-flying failed to dampen the spirits of party-goers in Lahore at the weekend, where hundreds of parties took place to celebrate the age-old Basant festival. But one gathering stood out. Under a starry sky filled with fireworks, about 150 gay men clambered to the roof of an apartment building for an exuberant party.
As a former Mafia killer, Eddie Lino must have known his death might always be around the corner. But he wasn’t expecting it to find him in retirement, on a Brooklyn freeway in 1992, when two police officers reportedly pulled him over in his Mercedes. Maybe he thought he was about to get a ticket for speeding.
He is known for his provocative stunts, which have included tattooing the backs of drug addicts, and spraying a group of stateless Iraqis with foam. But the Spanish artist Santiago Sierra provoked outrage among Jewish groups in Germany on Monday with his latest work — a homemade gas chamber set up in a former synagogue.
Russia intervened in the row over the death of Slobodan Milosevic on Monday, when it sent a team of doctors to The Hague to examine his body after expressing doubts about the reliability of the post-mortem examination. As Belgrade indicated that it would allow the funeral of the former Serbian leader to take place on its soil, the Russian government voiced ”alarm” at the sudden death of Milosevic.
A man was being held in a United States military prison on Monday for deserting from the marines 38 years ago after being caught on the American-Canadian border amid a new drive to track down Vietnam-era deserters. Allen Abney (56) who lives in British Columbia and who is now a Canadian citizen, had frequently crossed into the US without incident.
Senior British diplomatic and military staff gave British Prime Minister Tony Blair explicit warnings three years ago that the United States was disastrously mishandling the occupation of Iraq, according to leaked memos. John Sawers, Blair’s envoy in Baghdad in the aftermath of the invasion, sent a series of confidential memos to Downing Street cataloguing US failures.