Franz Beckenbauer, president of the organising committee for the 2006 World Cup, has sharply assailed the world governing body of soccer, accusing Fifa of being greedy and threatening to resign if the Germans didn’t have full control over ticket pricing.

Resistant: Researchers in Vancouver, Canada, have identified two
separate cases where anti-retroviral-resistant HIV was transmitted up
to three years after the virus developed its resistance.

The Auckland Blues secured the top spot on Friday in this year’s Super 12 rugby union competition, and a home semi-final, with a 33-9 win over the bottom-of-the-table Golden Cats.

Brazilian coach Luis Oscar Fullone-Arce has been appointed head coach of Sundowns.

Not many South Africans score centuries on their Test debuts, but when they do, they tend to make a meal of it.

Mohammad Rafique returned the best-ever figures by a Bangladesh bowler as South Africa was bowled out for 330 on the second day of the second Test in Dhaka.

A strong earthquake shook south-eastern Turkey today, killing nearly 100 people and injuring 1 000 others. Rescuers dug frantically in the rubble of a school dormitory, hunting for dozens of children believed trapped.

It may have started ten minutes late due to a lack of rugby balls, but nine tries later – the appreciative crowd at the Embalenhle township outside Secunda got what they came for – a decent game of rugby in the Vodacom Shield competition.

Sundowns is the only South African side remaining in the Confederation of African Football (CAF) club competitions after Jomo Cosmos and Santos were bundled out at the weekend.

South Africa and Bangladesh will feel equally pleased with their day’s work after the visitors reached 257 for six wickets at the close of the first day of the second Test in Dhaka on Thursday.