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/ 5 February 2006
Australia won the toss and opted to bat first in their triangular series limited overs match with South Africa at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Sunday. Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath was again rested for the match after deciding to spend time with his family. McGrath’s wife was diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer last week.
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/ 5 February 2006
Coach Andy Robinson hailed England’s strength in depth as they overpowered defending champions Wales 47-13 in their opening Six Nations match in London at Twickenham on Saturday. Lawrence Dallaglio, back after 17 months in self-imposed international exile, was one of six England try scorers as the hosts gained revenge for Wales’ 11-9 win in Cardiff last year.
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/ 5 February 2006
Thierry Henry’s 200th goal for Arsenal helped the Gunners end a difficult week on a high with a 2-0 win at Birmingham on Saturday. Alan Shearer also celebrated a landmark day, his 201st goal for managerless Newcastle sealing a 2-0 victory over Portsmouth as well as making the former England forward the highest scorer in the club’s history.
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/ 5 February 2006
In Untied States politics, where money can mean the difference between winning and losing, Hillary Clinton is in a fundraising class of her own. The former first lady, current New York senator and 2008 presidential hopeful has amassed a huge war chest for a tilt at the White House.
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/ 5 February 2006
The last time Mustafa spoke to Allah Mansour, his brother was standing on the deck of the al-Salam Boccaccio 98 as it left the Saudi port of Duba on Thursday night. Allah, a doctor, had been working for five years at a Riyadh hospital, and was returning home for the first time in seven months. His wife and five young children, aged two to eight, had gathered to greet him.
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/ 5 February 2006
They drive sleek cars, dress to kill and spend like there’s no tomorrow. Twelve years after the demise of apartheid, the children of South Africa’s revolution have found a way to celebrate freedom: shopping. In ways unimaginable to their grandparents, a generation of black upwardly mobile professionals, dubbed ”buppies”, is splashing out in a display of power and wealth that is driving a consumer boom.
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/ 5 February 2006
A shift in the pattern of the world’s wealth was illustrated last week as the ancient Viking hangout of Oslo gained the dubious title of being the world’s most expensive city. Thanks to an offshore oil-fuelled boom, the Norwegian capital, where a pint of beer is R75 and a CD nearly R215, is now the costliest place on the planet.
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/ 5 February 2006
South African film sensation Tsotsi is winning acclaim with its raw and compassionate depiction of Johannesburg’s criminal underworld, where poverty and HIV/Aids are mainstays of existence. The film tells the story of a 19-year-old ”tsotsi”, or thug, who is confronted with the depravity of his life while caring for a baby found in the back seat of a car he hijacked after shooting the mother.
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/ 5 February 2006
The increasingly bitter row over the publication of a series of controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad reached a new intensity on Saturday night as protesters set fire to the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Syria. On Saturday night the Danish embassy, which was empty when attacked, was a charred hulk.
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/ 4 February 2006
The SA Revenue Service (SARS) this week seized possessions of mining tycoon Roger Kebble, including three of his homes, a 47-foot yacht, luxury cars, a piano, paintings, antiques and firearms, the Sunday Times reports. Kebble was quoted by the paper as saying ”it’s done”, and that he was pleased the matter had been resolved.