South Africa’s one-wicket victory over Australia in the fifth Standard Bank one-day international on Sunday was the main topic of conversation throughout the country on Monday. ”The best marketing team in the world couldn’t have sold the game of cricket as effectively,” said United Cricket Board chief executive Gerald Majola.
Tornadoes have swept through portions of the United States Midwest, killing at least three people in Missouri, blowing roofs off homes in Illinois and Arkansas, and damaging about 60% of the buildings on the University of Kansas campus. A fourth storm death was reported in Indiana.
The co-accused of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein resumed testimony on Monday in their trial over the killing of 148 people near the Shi’ite village of Dujail in 1982 following an attempt on the then president’s life. On Monday, the trial heard Mohammed Azzawi, the former senior Ba’ath party member in Dujail, among others.
Fifa has agreed not to restrict the media from online publication of World Cup photographs during the soccer tournament in Germany later this year. The governing body of world soccer and the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) said on Monday they have reached an accord to allow media photos to be used.
The murder trial of the wife and four relatives of slain senior Free State official Noby Ngombane was postponed in the Bloemfontein High Court on Monday because further information had emerged in the investigation. The court agreed to a postponement until October 23, sought by the state.
Many a beer lover may dream of having free beer on tap at home. That dream came true over the weekend for Haldis Gundersen of the western Norwegian city of Oslo, reports said on Monday. ”I thought I was in heaven,” Gundersen told the online edition of Verdens Gang.
With the government’s Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative of South Africa (Asgisa) in full steam, it is confident that South Africa will achieve an economic growth rate of at least 6% between 2010 and 2014, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka said on Monday.
Two weeks after bird flu was confirmed in Niger, authorities have received only limited assistance to tackle the deadly H5N1 virus. The government of Niger launched an appeal for assistance the day after bird flu was confirmed in Niger at the end of February. First off the mark with help was neighbouring Nigeria.
Former Scotland winger Jimmy Johnstone, best known as one of the ”Lisbon Lions” when Celtic became the first British team to win the European Cup in 1967, died on Monday. He was 61. Johnstone became an active campaigner for stem-cell research after being diagnosed with motor neuron disease in November 2001.
Munaf Patel bagged seven wickets in his debut game and Virender Sehwag regained his form with a blazing 76 not out as India shattered England’s dreams with an emphatic nine-wicket win in the second Test on Monday. England go into the third and final Test at Mumbai on Saturday hoping to square the series.