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/ 18 November 2006

Cape Cobras outclass Warriors

It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. None of the 16 159 spectators at Newlands on Friday night would have disagreed with that sentiment as Alan Dawson bowled Brent Kops to clinch victory for the Cape Cobras in the final of the MTN Domestic Championship.

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/ 18 November 2006

World Toilet Day seeks clean restrooms

Cut-price toilet paper, brushes and detergent are on sale to help promote clean restrooms as part of World Toilet Day on Sunday, the campaign organizer said on Saturday. It is the fifth annual World Toilet Day, organised by the Singapore-based non-profit World Toilet Organisation, which lobbies for better toilet standards in developed and developing countries.

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/ 18 November 2006

Leaders tackle trade, North Korea at Apec summit

United States President George Bush on Saturday kept the pressure on North Korea as he held a flurry of bilateral talks with key world leaders before heading into an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit focused on free trade. Bush, China’s Hu Jintao, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were to convene on Saturday afternoon.

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/ 18 November 2006

UN: Nato cannot defeat Taliban by force

Nato ”cannot win” the fight against the Taliban alone and will have to train Afghan forces to do the job, the United Nation’s top official in the country warned on Friday. ”At the moment Nato has a very optimistic assessment. They think they can win the war,” warned Tom Koenigs, the diplomat heading the UN mission in Afghanistan. ”But there is no quick fix.”

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/ 18 November 2006

PlayStation mayhem in the US

A shooting. A stabbing. A beating. A hold-up. Friday’s release of the new PlayStation 3 gaming console led to several violent incidents across the United States. In Connecticut, two armed men tried to rob a line of people waiting to buy the console early on Friday and shot one who refused to give up the money, authorities said.

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/ 18 November 2006

Kebble murder: Cops silent on arrest

Police would not comment on reports on Friday that a Johannesburg police commissioner had been arrested in connection the murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble. National police spokesperson Sally de Beer would also not comment on a report, in the <i>Star</i> newspaper, that the former Hell’s Angels biker suspected of killing Kebble had vanished.

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/ 17 November 2006

Odds stacked against India

The odds seem stacked against India when a five-match one-day international series against South Africa starts at the Wanderers Stadium on Sunday. India have won just three times in 16 one-day internationals against the host nation in South Africa and suffered a 37-run defeat in their only warm-up match against a Rest of South Africa team in Benoni on Thursday.

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/ 17 November 2006

Wanderers to take firm action against racial abuse

The Gauteng Cricket Board announced on Friday that it would take firm action against any spectator guilty of racial abuse during the tours by India and Pakistan. Chief executive Alan Kourie said that following incidents of racial abuse reported from Australia, the board had decided to pay careful attention to the situation at matches at the Wanderers.