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.
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.
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.
Calls to strip Zimbabwe of Test status may finally have taken the pressure off Bangladesh, who yearn to gain respect as a cricket team. Long the wooden spooners of Test cricket, Bangladesh may have just turned the corner, leaving Zimbabwe to fill their shoes as the most pitiable team in the world.
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.
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.
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.
Michael Jackson’s defence attorney sought on Tuesday to undermine the credibility of the younger brother of his accuser by presenting a Father’s Day card written by the now 14-year-old to the singer. ”When we get broken and shattered into tiny little pieces, you always heal us,” the boy wrote.
South African companies are involved in dumping illegal weapons in conflict-ridden areas in Africa, an Amnesty International researcher said on Tuesday. ”In one recent example, an air-freight company operating from Johannesburg International airport helped fly several hundred tonnes of weapons into the Great Lakes region,” said Brian Wood, the organisation’s research manager.