Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong denied ever taking performance-enhancing drugs, in response to a report published on Tuesday by the French daily L’Equipe that he was proven to have taken an endurance-boosting hormone during his first Tour de France triumph in 1999.
South Africa’s rigid black economic empowerment (BEE) targets for equity, employment and management mean that United States firms will have to rearrange their entire business structure "simply to invest" in South Africa, says official opposition leader Tony Leon.
McCarthy Motor Holdings, part of listed diversified industrial group Bidvest, has introduced a new concept in car sales targeting the low end of the car market — McCarthy Student Wheels, selling used automobiles at prices of R55 000 or less. It provides reliable cars to students or first-time car buyers with limited budgets.
South Africa’s real gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices on a quarter-on-quarter seasonally annualised and adjusted basis rose by 4,8% in the second quarter of 2005 from 3,5% in the first quarter, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday. Mike Schussler, economist at T-Sec, said: "It’s very, very good."
The International Badminton Federation said it needs to transform its image from one of a backyard barbecue activity to a sport of global interest like Formula One. ”Our target is to promote the game to the audience,” IBF deputy president Punch Gunalan said. ”We must show countries like the United States that badminton is exciting and not just a garden game.
The Wallabies were on Tuesday hit by more injury concerns ahead of their final Tri-Nations rugby international against New Zealand in Auckland on September 3. The Australians, who are without a win in the Tri-Nations after two defeats to South Africa and another to New Zealand, have delayed naming their squad until Wednesday to await a series of medical reports.
South Africans Graeme Smith and Shaun Pollock will lead the World Test and one-day teams in the Super Series in Australia in October, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced in Melbourne on Tuesday. Smith will lead the ICC World XI in the six-day Test against the Australians, while Pollock will skipper the international team for three one-dayers against Australia.
The conditions in Nurma Sulaiman’s tiny room in one of Nusa’s six barracks have just become a little more cramped. But neither she nor her husband and four children are complaining, because the cause of their discomfort is the arrival of a sewing machine.
Iraq’s ruling coalition submitted a new Constitution to Parliament on Monday night but delayed a vote for three days to try to win over Sunni Arabs who said it could lead to civil war. Shia and Kurdish leaders said they had reached a compromise between themselves and delivered a thinly veiled ultimatum to the Sunni minority to sign up to the deal by Thursday or retreat deeper into the political wilderness.
The soaring guitar solos and haunting keyboard melodies owe more than a nod to Pink Floyd, Yes, Deep Purple and other ageing icons of 70s British rock. But while they may have emulated their heroes’ musical virtuosity, the members of Norik Misakian Band are unlikely to follow their path to world fame and fortune.