The final Test between Australia and India finished in a draw at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday. The series ended 1-1 with India holding on to the Border Gavaskar Trophy as winners of the previous 2001 series in India. Australian skipper Steve Waugh scored 80 in his 168th and final Test.
Prosecutors said on Tuesday that International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president Kim Un-Yong, under investigation for alleged corruption, maintains that a secret stash of foreign currency found at his home was destined for North Korea. Investigators raided Kim’s home and office last month.
For Australia’s cricket hero Steve Waugh his final day as a Test cricketer was as good as it gets. Waugh thrilled his legions of fans in Australia and around the cricket world with a pugnacious innings of 80 to help his team see off the threat of series defeat against India in the final Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday.
Zambia has given a British journalist one day to leave the country for ”insulting” President Levy Mwanawasa in his weekly column in a private newspaper, Home Affairs Minister Ronnie Shikapwasha told a group of Mwanawasa’s supporters who marched on the interior ministry to demand Clarke’s deportation.
A two-year-old baby was raped in the Free State township of Hlohlowane, police said on Monday. Constable Christopher Mophiring said the girl was rushed to the nearby Clocolan hospital where it was confirmed she was raped.
There is no need for an investigation into the Eastern Cape’s 8,2% improvement in its matric pass rate, Umalusi, the body responsible for monitoring matric examinations, said on Monday. The results have improved by 24,4% since 1999.
The country’s biggest banking group Nedcor (NED) said on Monday it could not comment on speculation that its parent, UK-listed listed South African insurer Old Mutual, has approached several leading international banks to help sell its stake in the bank. Old Mutual also emphasised it was committed to Nedcor.
Drought has hit Swaziland and that threatens to result in zero crop yields in 25% of the country, the United Nations’ Integrated Regional Information Networks reports. At present about 245 000 Swazis — a quarter of the kingdom’s population of 950 000 — are receiving food relief.
A British human rights campaigner is to apply for an international arrest warrant against Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, it was reported in South Africa on Sunday.