A clear directive from New Zealand’s government could halt its national team’s cricket tour to Zimbabwe next month without financial penalty, International Cricket Council (ICC) president Eshan Mani has said. Mani’s message is seen as offering the government a means to stop the tour without resorting to legislation.
Two faces. One was Lance Armstrong’s, steely but almost serene as he pedalled furiously in the thin mountain air. The other was a mask of pain worn by Jan Ullrich, his German rival trailing farther and farther behind. Armstrong took a giant step toward a seventh Tour de France victory with a dominant ride on Tuesday.
It was a spectacular climax to years of secret scientific research as well as the start of a new era: on July 16 1945 at 5.29,45am, the world’s first atomic bomb was detonated in the south-western desert state of New Mexico. The scientists who worked undercover and around the clock for two years were well aware of the monumental meaning of their project.
Hundreds of Malian journalists and supporters marched on Tuesday through the streets of Bamako to demand the truth about the abduction and beating of local radio personality Hamidou Diarra. Marchers braved a light drizzle to head towards the communications ministry and present their protest at the ”barbaric” treatment of their colleague.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Wednesday stated that after reaching an agreement on benefits and conditions of employment with platinum producer Angloplat, it is confident that a settlement on wages will be reached. The NUM cut its wage demand from 15% to 8% while Angloplat had increased its initial offer of 2,5% to the level of CPIX inflation, currently running at around 4%.
United States workers are goofing off for two hours a day, trawling the internet or jawing with co-workers, costing their employers -billion a year, according to a new survey. Other ways of frittering away time included making personal phone calls, running errands and an activity described as ”spacing out”.
A four-year-old boy who hid inside a duffel bag that was placed out with the family trash was nearly crushed in a garbage truck’s compactor before a sanitation worker heard him scream. Jacob Deates had climbed inside the duffel bag just as the garbage truck came by on Monday morning.
”Beware the wounded animal,” warned Bafana Bafana general manager Stanley ”Screamer” Tshabalala before Wednesday night’s Concacaf Gold Cup game against a down-in-the-dumps Guatemala at Houston’s Reliance Stadium. ”Bafana turned the tables on Mexico in our opening fixtures when no-one gave us a chance of winning,” said Tshabalala.
Like millions of Harry Potter fans, Katherine Moss can’t wait to get her fingers on a copy of the sixth entry in JK Rowling’s best-selling series. And for once, the 16-year-old blind student won’t have to wait weeks longer than her sighted friends to dive into Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Former United States president Bill Clinton will embark on a week-long, six-nation African tour this weekend aimed at boosting the work of his foundation in combatting the scourge of HIV/Aids in the continent. Clinton will seek to ”reinvigorate political will” for scaling up HIV/Aids treatment programmes.