Rafael Nadal made up for lost time on a day of rain interruptions, racing to a 6-1, 6-2 victory on Wednesday night over Brazilian Ricardo Mello for a third-round place at the ,2-million Montreal Masters. The top-seeded teenager will have only hours to recover before a Thursday match against Sebastien Grosjean.
South African rugby coach Jake White was the ultimate diplomat on Thursday when his team arrived in Australia, saying a draw would be his favoured outcome when Tri-Nations rivals Australia and New Zealand play on Saturday. White believes injuries in the Australian and New Zealand camps make squad depth the key factor.
Taxi drivers in the southern English seaside town of Brighton will start handing out free condoms to frisky late-night passengers on Thursday as part of a sexual health drive, a contraceptives firm said. The ”Safe Ride Home” scheme by Trojan will equip cabbies from the Brighton-based firm Radio Cabs with about 60Â 000 condoms to give to any passenger who asks.
Nasa said on Wednesday that engineers have launched an elaborate review into why pieces of foam insulation fell off the space shuttle Discovery‘s fuel tank, hoping to clear the way for more manned space flights.
At least 30 rebels died in an aerial bombardment of their camps in northwestern Colombia, authorities said on Wednesday. Colombian Air Force combat aircraft bombed three rural areas along a border between the provinces of Antioquia and Choco, west of Medellin, where rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) were camped.
United States teenager Tianna Madison stunned her more experienced rivals by taking the women’s long-jump title at the world athletics championships in Finland on Wednesday. The 19-year-old jumped 6,89m in her first major championships to beat Olympic bronze medallist Tatyana Kotova of Russia (6,79m) while defending champion Eunice Barber of France took the bronze (6,76m).
Tiger Woods has shattered any notion of a golfing ”Big Five” with an overwhelming season that even his top rivals admit has proven Woods’ supremacy in the sport. The 29-year-old American superstar won the Masters and British Open titles, putted poorly and settled for second at the US Open and could capture his 11th career major crown on Sunday at the 87th PGA Championship.
Action aplenty, goals in abundance and controversial incidents were the features of the 2-2 Premier League draw between Supersport United and Santos at the Loftus stadium in Pretoria on Wednesday night. It was ultimately a result that will provide new Santos coach Roger de Sa with a great deal more satisfaction than it will to a disappointed Supersport and their handful of supporters.
A postcard sent from a prisoner of war (POW) camp in Germany in 1942 has been delivered to its address in Serbia after more than 63 years, local media reported on Wednesday. Michael Cronenberg, a German antiques dealer bought a postcard, written by prisoner of war Vojislav Dzeletovic on June 26, 1942 from a camp in eastern Germany to his wife Bosiljka, at a flea market in Germany.
The United Nations said on Wednesday that 17 bodies had been recovered from the site of the late Sudanese southern rebel John Garang’s helicopter crash — three more than originally reported. ”The last figure that I saw in our report was 17,” said Radhia Achouri, a spokesperson for UN special envoy for Sudan Jan Pronk.