Harmony Gold team runner Leonid Shvetsov of Russia has set a new mark of five hours, 20 minutes and 49 seconds in winning the 2007 Comrades Marathon down run from Pietermaritzburg to Durban. He was first across the line at the Sahara Stadium in Durban on Sunday and lived up to his pre-race prediction that he was ready for anything.
This might well be the beginning of the end for the hard drive: in mid-May, Dell became the first manufacturer to market a laptop using flash memory instead of a hard drive. Other manufacturers will be joining the company before year’s end with solid-state disk (SSD) technology of their own. For users, this is all good news.
A powerful bomb destroyed a police bus in the heart of the Afghan capital on Sunday, killing more than 35 people, police said, as the extremist Taliban movement claimed responsibility. It was the deadliest attack of its kind in Afghanistan since the Taliban regime was toppled in late 2001.
From the steamy to the bizarre and the downright embarrassing, the marathon grind of the 2008 White House campaign is rich with missteps, mirth and melodies. When a racy brunette in a steamy video declares a crush on Democratic hopeful Barack Obama, it’s clear that the hoopla surrounding this election is like nothing that came before.
A United Nations Security Council team and African Union officials on Saturday discussed the speedy deployment of a hybrid force in Darfur following Khartoum’s long-awaited nod for the peacekeepers. Khartoum had previously rejected attempts to send large numbers of UN peacekeepers to Darfur.
A devastating strike and looming policy conference are finally prodding the shadowy contest for the leadership of South Africa’s governing party into the open, even if no candidate wants to admit it. The next African National Congress president will be formally elected in December at a party conference.
The South African Football Association (Safa) was on Saturday embroiled in a dangerous confrontation with South Africa Football — its satellite wing delegated to handle the financial affairs of the country’s international teams. The new organisation has been perceived as usurping the functions and responsibilities of Safa itself.
Bafana Bafana arrived in Pointe Noire for Sunday’s key African Nations Cup qualifier against Congo and soon a storm of discontent had enveloped the South African camp. Coach Carlos Albert Parreira was fuming over the failure of the Congolese to provide his players with the kind of ball that will be used in Sunday’s game.
Lewis Hamilton continues to rampage through his rookie season in Formula One, following up his fantastic performance in Canada last weekend by claiming pole position for Sunday’s United States Grand Prix. The English sensation recorded his first pole and then his maiden victory in Montreal.
Audi took a firm grip on the Le Mans 24-Hour Race on Saturday as Peugeot’s return to the classic endurance event threatened to turn into a nightmare. After nine hours, the Audi of Tom Kristensen, who is seeking an eighth victory, Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello led teammates Frank Biela, Emanuele Pirro and Marco Werner by three laps.