All Blacks pair Doug Howlett and Tony Woodcock will make their first Super 12 rugby appearances of the season for the Blues against the Chiefs at Waikato Stadium, Hamilton, on Saturday. There are two other changes from the team who sneaked an 18-15 win over the Queensland Reds on Friday.
With Arsenal about to say farewell to their Premier League title, French striker Thierry Henry has a moody demeanour these days, even when he’s stroking the ball into the net. Instead of waving his arms and grinning from ear to ear, Henry tends to jog quietly away, take the applause of the crowd and teammates and go to say thanks to the player who provided the pass.
Justin Nurse, the founder of T-shirt company Laugh It Off, made a bold statement on Tuesday when he took off his jacket in the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg. What looked like colourful Hawaiian flowers on his shirt appeared to be drawings of Saddam Hussein.
A South African woman whose arrest heightened fears that terrorists were slipping across the United States-Mexico border has been deported. Farida Goolam Mahomed Ahmed (49) was turned over to authorities in South Africa on Tuesday, Immigration and customs enforcement officials said. She is barred from returning to the United States for 10 years.
A rampant Australia start firm favourites in the first cricket Test against New Zealand starting in Christchurch on Thursday with speed demon Brett Lee at his blistering best after tormenting the Black Caps in the one-day series. As the tourists aim for a clean sweep in the Tests to complement the 5-0 drubbing they handed out in the one-day series, their ranks have now been bolstered with opening batsman Matthew Hayden.
Standard Bank continues to deliver on the promises it made to its shareholders — meeting its primary financial objectives of strong real earnings and an attractive return on shareholder value. One of the group’s stated medium-term objectives was headline earnings growth of inflation plus 10%, equating to 14,3%, for the past financial year, which it easily beat.
Given Metropolitan’s strong performance and shareholder returns relative to its competitors over the past two years, there has been little reason for the company to participate in the consolidation experienced in South Africa’s life insurance industry, according to CEO Peter Doyle.
A girl described as a 17-year-old weakling has beaten three robotic arms powered with plastic muscles in the first arm-wrestling competition of its kind, The Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday. ”I was hoping we could have a win, but that didn’t happen,” said Yoseph Bar-Cohen, an expert on responsive plastics with the United States space agency.
The chilly waters off northeastern England are rarely that inviting for bathers, but at least those who do venture in for a dip have been able to do so in the knowledge they are safe from sharks. Until now, that is. British maritime agencies have warned surfers and divers thinking of braving the North Sea to be on the alert for a shortfin mako shark.
Parisians are confident of seducing the 13-strong International Olympic Committee evaluation commission who arrived in Paris on Tuesday to evaluate the French capital’s bid to host the 2012 Olympics, Sports Minister Jean-Francois Lamour said.