New Zealand all but booked themselves a place in the NatWest Series final with a five-wicket win against the West Indies at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff on Saturday. Only a freak combination of results can now deny Stephen Fleming’s men a place in the July 10 Lord’s showpiece of this one-day international triangular event.
Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter said the result could have been bigger had his strikers converted most of the chances they created after his charge’s 2-0 win over Burkina Faso at the FNB Stadium on Saturday. ”It could have been a different game as well if we had scored four of the 15 chances we created in the first half,” he said.
Comfortable win for Bafana Bafana
Rwanda on Saturday reopened its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a bid to ease tension that brought fear of renewed war between the two neighbours and led to the sealing of the frontier. President Paul Kagame and the DRC’s President Joseph Kabila held talks in Nigeria on June 25 in a bid to ease tensions.
At least seven people died and seven others are missing after Typhoon Mindulle cut a swathe of destruction through central and southern Taiwan, officials said on Saturday. An avalanche of mud and rocks buried a small village in the Nantou region of central Taiwan.
The United States warned its citizens on Friday of the risk of travel to crisis-ridden Zimbabwe. ”Zimbabwe continues to be in the midst of political, economic and humanitarian crises with serious implications for the security situation in the country,” the US State Department said in a travel warning.
Marlon Brando, whose brooding, tongue-tied characters in The Wild One, On the Waterfront and A Streetcar Named Desire uttered some of the most famous lines in movie history, has died at the age of 80. The two-time Oscar winner died in a Los Angeles hospital late on Thursday, media reported on Friday.
An earthquake in a remote, mountainous part of eastern Turkey on Friday collapsed dozens of stone and mud-brick houses, killing 18 people including three sisters and their brother, and injuring 27 others. The earthquake destroyed 67 homes in the village of Yigincal, near the Iranian border.
The judge in the Michael Jackson child molestation case sealed one of the most critical defence motions in the case without comment on Friday, continuing a pattern of secrecy he has imposed throughout the proceedings. An attorney representing media organisations promised to oppose the seal.
An employee of ConAgra Foods Inc killed four people in the cafeteria of the plant on Friday, news reports said. The man carried two handguns into the plant and strode into the cafeteria, where he opened fire, The New York Times reported on its website. The man then killed himself.
A liquidator appointed to investigate corruption in the liquidation industry appeared in the Johannesburg Regional Court on Friday for alleged fraud and corruption, police said. Captain Ronnie Naidoo said Enver Motala was arrested on Friday by the serious economic offences unit.