Adam Gilchrist says the 2007 World Cup will likely be his last cricket series for Australia. The 33-year-old Gilchrist, the world’s premier wicketkeeper-batsman, told Inside Cricket magazine that he won’t be playing for Australia in three years’ time, domestic media reported on Tuesday.
A Zimbabwean court trying two British journalists accused of illegally covering last week’s parliamentary polls heard on Monday that a camera they apparently used to photograph the vote did not contain any images. A police officer testifying last week said he seized the camera from the journalists and took it for safekeeping at a local police station.
Mike Tyson is returning to the ring. The former heavyweight boxing champion will fight for the first time in nearly a year, facing journeyman Kevin McBride on June 11 at Washington’s MCI Centre, a boxing source told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity on Monday.
Shane Warne has insisted it will be England who will be under pressure when the Ashes series against Ricky Ponting’s Australian tourists gets under way in July. Australia have won the last eight Ashes series dating back to 1989 and, although England are now ranked second in the world, Michael Vaughan’s men will be outsiders to break the sequence.
South Africa claimed West Indies star Brian Lara among three quick wickets before tea to take command on the fourth day of the second Test at Queen’s Park Oval on Monday. The West Indies, who trailed by 51 runs on the first innings, went to the break tottering on 86 for four, a lead of just 35.
IT solutions and retail group Connection Holdings on Tuesday reported a 50,7% increase in headline earnings per share to 52,44 cents for the six months ended February 28 this year, from 34,79 cents for the corresponding period a year ago. In line with current practice, the group declared no interim dividend.
Officials from South African oil and chemicals group Sasol and representatives from three major trade unions on Monday agreed to the establishment of an occupational health and safety charter. "The parties agreed that safety is the first priority at all Sasol operations," Sasol said in a statement.
World number six gold miner Harmony Gold remains "absolutely" committed to completing its bid for rival Gold Fields and is awaiting the Competition Tribunal’s decision on the proposed merger of the two entities, Harmony chief executive Bernard Swanepoel said on Monday afternoon.
Three years of renovation have transformed the Japanese prime minister’s residence from a crumbling, vermin-invested pile into a state-of-the-art eco home, it was revealed on Monday. Junichiro Koizumi finally had somewhere to call home when his refurbished four-storey official residence was unveiled before members of the Cabinet and former prime ministers.
Health experts fighting the killer Marburg virus in northern Angola said on Monday they were facing denial from families who are refusing to send their sick to hospitals or are taking them out of the city, worsening the risk of contamination. Isolation of victims is the only way to slow the spread of the disease, for which there are no drugs or vaccine.