Steven Gerrard scored two goals in two minutes on Tuesday to help put Liverpool into the second qualifying round of the Champions League after beating Total Network Solutions 3-0 and 6-0 on aggregate. Djibril Cisse scored the opening goal for the defending champions in the 26th minute.
The Argentinian coach of Mexican First Division giants Cruz Azul was kidnapped on Tuesday, the club’s vice-president announced. Ruben Omar Romano had just left a training session when five men forced the 47-year-old out of his 4×4 and took him away in another car.
Alexandre Despatie gave Canada another gold medal to celebrate at the World Swimming Championships when he won the 3m springboard title on Tuesday. The Montreal resident was cheered loudly, especially for earning two perfect marks of 10 on his third dive. American Troy Dumais earned the silver.
Australian spin-meister Shane Warne has admitted that his high-profile personal problems, notably the recent break-up of his 10-year marriage, will cut short his career as the world’s most successful bowler. ”I definitely think it will make me play shorter,” Warne told reporters of his off-field dramas.
Visa USA and American Express are cutting ties with the payment-processing company that left 40-million credit and debit card accounts vulnerable to hackers in one of the biggest breaches of consumer data security. CardSystems Solutions ”has not corrected, and cannot at this point correct, the failure to provide proper data security for Visa accounts,” said Rosetta Jones, a vice president at Foster City, California-based Visa.
Intel’s second-quarter earnings grew 16% and sales jumped to a record ,23-billion (â,¬7,71-billion) on Tuesday as the world’s largest chip maker continued to profit from the rising popularity of notebook computers and growth in emerging markets.
Microsoft sued one of its former executives and Google on Tuesday, the same day the internet search engine company announced it had hired Kai-Fu Lee to head up a research and development centre in China. The Redmond-based software maker argued that by taking a job with a direct competitor, Lee is breaking contractual promises.
The Durban health department intends taking Engen to court after sulphur dioxide emissions at its Durban oil refinery were found to be ”excessive”. ”We’ve served the necessary notices, we are moving ahead with the legal processes,” said the deputy head of the department, Selva Mudaly.
The South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (Saccawu) on Wednesday said that up to 30 000 Pick ‘n Pay employees are expected to take part in a nationwide strike action from Friday. Saccawu spokesperson Dumisani Dlakile said that wage negotiations with management deadlocked after mediation.
New Zealand recorded 33 new Aids cases in the first six months of this year, more than double the number reported in the first half of 2004.