Chris Gayle’s 132 not out in his 100th one-day international took West Indies into the Natwest Series final with a seven-wicket win against England at Lord’s in London on Tuesday. Not even a total of 285 for seven could prevent England extending a losing-streak batting first that stretches back to last year’s World Cup.
The Olympic flame made a symbolic trip from Europe to Asia and back again on Tuesday when the Olympic global torch relay visited the Turkish city of Istanbul. The first of 125 bearers to carry the torch in Istanbul was Turkey’s only Fifa-accredited female referee, Lale Orta.
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Medical doctors are to seek leave to appeal against the Pretoria High Court’s dismissal of their constitutional challenge to regulations obliging them to acquire special licences to dispense medicine. The Department of Health said it will defend the legislation. It believes provisions for dispensing licences are legitimate.
Fourteen years of war have brought about a near-terminal decline of public services in the Liberian capital, Monrovia. As a result, the streets are littered with household waste, shrapnel, carcasses, rubble and scrap that are an eyesore at best — at worst, a dangerous pollutant of underground water sources.
Britain does not yet want to see its four nationals held at the Guantanamo Bay prison freed because it cannot guarantee they are not a security threat, Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday. The ”machinery” is not yet in place to ensure the British men will pose no risk to security if they return home, Blair said.
The Catholic Church is planning a further roll-out of its anti-retroviral (ARV) programme for HIV and Aids patients in South Africa, the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference said on Tuesday. In February this year the church started rolling out its programme to provide HIV and Aids ARV therapy at 22 of its facilities.
Robert Burchfield, a daring and innovative lexicographer who was chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionaries from 1971 to 1984, has died at the age of 81, Oxford University Press said on Tuesday. Burchfield once described the English language as ”a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib”.
The defence counsel for four young men accused of killing a black man and assaulting another in 2001 dismissed a state witness’s version as ”physically impossible” on Tuesday. Advocate Jaap Cilliers pointed out inconsistencies arising from cellphone records obtained for the day in question.
Authorities were on Tuesday busy with negotiations as day two of unrest in the Diepsloot community north-west of Johannesburg played out. Residents of Diepsloot took to the streets on Monday in a violent protest against an alleged move to relocate them from Diepsloot to Brits.