Serena and Venus Williams were too hurt to play tennis at the US Open, but not too injured to appear on television shows in New York on Wednesday and declare the Grand Slam event diminished by their absence.
Arsenal and Manchester United kept their early season record perfect on Wednesday. In the third Premier League game for each team, Arsenal won 2-0 at home against Aston Villa and defending champion Man United defeated Wolverhampton 1-0.
Josep Ngake, a former Orlando Pirates player, scored a hat-trick to help Ajax to a 3-1 win over neighbours Hellenic in a PSL soccer match played in Cape Town on Wednesday night.
The Lions go into Saturday’s crunch Currie Cup encounter with the Sharks at Ellis Park on the back of two convincing wins — against the Eagles and Cheetahs — and full of confidence.
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The notoriously crowded and sweaty basement club where the Beatles played
some of their first gigs is about to become a global brand, writes Helen Carter in London, and will soon be opening as far afield as Australia, Spain and Brazil.
Freedom Front leader Dr Pieter Mulder added his party’s voice on Wednesday to calls for a commission of inquiry to investigate new facts regarding the arms deal.
Islamic guerrillas waged at least three attacks on Wednesday in the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, injuring three people, soon after Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee arrived for a national conference, police said.
<b>CD of the week:</b>
Tumi and The Volume:<i>At the Bassline</i>
Every now and again an album creeps up and sinks its teeth into your aural cavity so successfully that it makes you a fan from merely a single spin, writes Jason Curtis.
At least 39 people, mostly women, were killed on Wednesday in a stampede by Hindu worshippers rushing to bathe in one of western India’s holiest rivers at a festival held every three years.