Rahul Dravid cracked a defiant 76 not out as India fought back from the brink to defeat Pakistan by five wickets on Sunday and level the five-match series 2-2. The tourists, chasing Pakistan’s seemingly unbeatable 293-9, overcame the loss of four top batsmen by the 13th over to surpass the target with five overs to spare.
The Stormers’ hopes of making the Super 12 semifinals were dealt a damaging blow on Saturday when they went down 33-15 to the Brumbies at Newlands. Although the Cape side appear to be in a healthy position on the log, the loss to the Brumbies was their second at home and they are yet to tour Australasia.
Sundowns were made to pay dearly for the chances they missed in the first half as Kaizer Chiefs moved closer to the first league championship in 12 years with a hard fought 2-0 Castle Premiership win over the Brazilians at the Odi stadium on Sunday.
New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming was flattered but could not be tempted into agreeing that Monday’s historic nine-wicket over South Africa, the second-ranked team in the world, was the Black Caps’ most complete Test cricket win.
No other place on earth boasts such a wide variety of wild animals so close to a bustling metropolis. Lions, giraffes and ostriches roam freely against a backdrop of skyscrapers and jets landing at Kenya’s international airport.
Isa Mohammed distrusts doctors, especially white foreign ones. His suspicions, he says, stem from a 1996 drug study by American pharmaceutical giant Pfizer in which his daughter, now partially disabled, took part. It is that study that is driving a polio-vaccine boycott, now six months old, among northern Nigerian Muslims.
America’s media, already reeling from the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal, has been rocked by the revelation that yet another top reporter has been making up news stories. Jack Kelley, senior foreign correspondent for USA Today and a Pulitzer Prize nominee, has been faking major foreign news stories for several years, the paper confessed last week.
There were shadows in the rocks. As the 12 United States Special Forces soldiers arrived at a remote mountain region in eastern Afghanistan last week, the shadows took form and started moving, turning into people. The Americans, accompanied by troops from Pakistan and Predator drones scouring the hills ahead, finally got a glimpse of the prey they had been hunting for months.
Dramatic corroboration of the massacre of Afghan prisoners by the United States-backed Northern Alliance at the start of the war in 2001 was on Saturday night provided by American pathologists commissioned to investigate the claims by the United Nations.
The United Nations is to be given a lead role in post-occupation Iraq under British and American plans to shore up crumbling international support for the continuing military presence in the country. UK officials said there will be a sustained push for a fresh UN resolution ‘mandating’ the continued military presence in Iraq.