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/ 27 November 2006
Elton John’s latest Australian tour got off to an inauspicious start when the British pop superstar had to leave the stage briefly to be sick, local media reported on Monday. John was about to perform Crocodile Rock, one of the most popular songs of his four-decade career, on Sunday when he felt unwell and left the stage in Brisbane for about five minutes.
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/ 27 November 2006
Humpback whales have a type of brain cell seen only in humans, the great apes, and other cetaceans such as dolphins, researchers reported on Monday. This might mean such whales are more intelligent than they have been given credit for, and suggests the basis for complex brains either evolved more than once, or have gone unused by most species of animals.
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/ 27 November 2006
Fifa president Sepp Blatter hit out on Monday at rich clubs with inflated squads, accusing them of buying too many players and depriving smaller teams from being competitive. ”There is kind of like a traffic jam of players in Europe,” he said at the Soccerex conference in Dubai.
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/ 27 November 2006
The Springbok rugby team’s management and players have strongly condemned the behaviour of some people who displayed the old South African flag during the two clashes against England at Twickenham over the past two weeks. Among the thousands of fans at Twickenham on Sunday, at least four were carrying old South African flags.
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/ 27 November 2006
Ricardo Carvalho headed in an equaliser in the 69th minute on Sunday to help Chelsea earn a 1-1 draw with Manchester United and keep the defending champions within three points of the Red Devils at the top of the Premier League. Louis Saha gave United the lead in the 29th minute.
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/ 27 November 2006
Hank McGregor and Clint Pretorius won the South African double-ski title in emphatic style at the weekend, breaking the record for the Hansa Knysna Sedgefield race and wrapping up a clean sweep of ski and river titles for McGregor. The duo covered the course from Leisure Isle to Sedgefield in less than two hours.
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/ 27 November 2006
South Africa won the Surf Ski World Cup in Perth in emphatic style this weekend, headed by back-to-back victories in both legs of the event by 43-year-old Durban ace Oscar Chalupsky, who romped home to win the 30km second-leg event from Rottnest Island to Hillary Harbour outside Perth on Sunday.
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/ 27 November 2006
The Titans beat the Eagles by one run on Sunday in their Supersport Series four-day match played at SuperSport Park in Centurion. This is only the second such result in the history of South African first-class cricket and the 32nd in all first-class cricket.
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/ 27 November 2006
While inflation data to be released this week is likely to be more favourable, there is still a strong possibility of even more rate hikes than the market is currently expecting, Standard Chartered Bank said in a statement on Monday. Economist Razia Khan said that with the strengthening of the rand, market expectations for further tightening have been scaled back significantly.
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/ 27 November 2006
Last-ditch talks in Finland on Monday between the European Union and Turkey aimed at averting an EU crisis with Ankara over the Cyprus issue have failed, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said. "An agreement could not be reached," Tuomioja, whose country currently holds the rotating EU Presidency, told reporters following talks.