Super-sized mice on an island in the South Atlantic are eating seabird chicks alive, according to alarmed wildlife watchers. The mice, three times the size of those normally found in Europe, attack at night and are devouring more than one million petrel, shearwater and albatross chicks on Gough Island every year.
They may have proved their worth as Telkom Charity Cup champions for a second successive year by winning Saturday’s final in front of a 70 000 crowd at the FNB Stadium while fielding basically different teams for the games against Black Leopards and Bloemfontein Celtic. Now the intriguing question is: Who are the real Sundowns?
Arsenal won the preseason Amsterdam Tournament after substitute Fredrik Ljungberg scored two second-half goals to help beat FC Porto 2-1 on Sunday. Boca Juniors beat Ajax 1-0, with the goal coming from Jose Calvo. The win gave Arsenal nine points, followed by Porto with six.
Fourth-seeded Kim Clijsters easily defeated Venus Williams 7-5, 6-2 in Sunday’s final for her third Bank of the West Classic title. Clijsters claimed her fourth title of the year and third on hard courts, having won at Indian Wells and Miami in the spring. Williams slipped to 6-3 all-time against Clijsters.
England striker Michael Owen, who has dropped further down Real Madrid’s hierarchy after recent signings, will be allowed to leave the Spanish first-division club, a Real source told the Sunday Times. Madrid’s recent purchases of Santos striker Robinho and Sevilla’s Julio Baptista has meant Owen is in fifth spot for a starting place.
Saudi Arabia’s ruler, King Fahd, died early on Monday in a Riyadh hospital where he was admitted on May 27 for unspecified medical tests. His brother, Crown Prince Abdullah, has been announced the country’s new monarch, the Saudi royal court said in a statement.
South African national junior team member Nikita Robb (16), of East London, won the 000 Target Women’s Junior Pro at Huntington Beach on Saturday. Robb was awarded a 9,83 score on one of her two counting waves in the final, the highest points recorded in any division of the event.
Andre Agassi returned to match fitness in emphatic fashion on Sunday as the veteran stormed past Gilles Muller 6-4, 7-5 to register his 60th career title at the 000 ATP Mercedes-Benz Cup. ”It feels amazing; this is why you work so hard. I’m taking it all in and feeling good,” Agassi said.
Defending champion Vijay Singh held off a charging Tiger Woods to capture the ,6-million PGA Buick Open title on Sunday. Entering the final round with a five-stroke cushion, Singh fired a two-under-par 70 and was never pushed in posting a four-shot victory.
A convoy of trucks carrying aid relief of 4 500 blankets and 37 tonnes of maize, beans and oil is to leave Johannesburg for Zimbabwe on Monday. The office of Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane said on Monday the blankets were donated by the Anglican church. Other churches collected the rest of the goods.