Shane Warne, cricket’s greatest wicket-taker, is turning from England foe to friend. The Australian, who has claimed 172 English Test wickets and counting, announced his involvement on Monday in a school initiative aiming to bolster and hone England’s scant spin-bowling skills.
City Press political editor Jimmy Seepe has died, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported on Tuesday. Seepe died in the Tshepo-Themba Clinic in Dobsonville, Soweto, where he had been in a coma since collapsing at his home in Pimville last month.
Security bosses have agreed to meet the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union within days in a bid to end the union’s pay strike, media reports said on Tuesday. The meeting was at the invitation of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration, which is trying to broker a deal.
Arsenal teenager Theo Walcott made England’s provisional World Cup squad on Monday even though he has never played in a Premier League game. Coach Sven-Goran Eriksson also included injured stars Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen in the 27-man roster, as well as several other players who’ve barely kicked a ball in the last few months.
The prosecution and defence rested their cases on Monday in the trial of former Enron executives Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay after 14 weeks of intense questioning of the key figures in one of the biggest collapses in corporate history. The court adjourned and closing arguments will be heard next week before the jury starts its deliberations.
He braved rattlesnakes in the desert, and creepy hotel clerks in the Midwest. His wife left him, and he has stress fractures in both feet. But for Steve Vaught, a morbidly obese man who set out to walk across the United States to lose weight and find his soul, journey’s end was in sight on Monday.
Two Tasmanian gold miners trapped nearly a kilometre underground for 14 days were rescued on Monday, ending a saga that had gripped Australia. The rescue of the pair, who had been feared dead, has been described as ”an inspiring example of Australian mateship”.
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The African National Congress has invited its deputy president, Jacob Zuma, to discuss the resumption of his party duties after his acquittal on a rape charge, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported on Tuesday.
Sony on Monday revealed key details of its PlayStation 3 video-game console, saying that two million of the next-generation game machines would hit stores in Japan on November 11 and in the United States, Europe and Australia on November 17.
It can be a delicacy or status symbol, a cure-all or even an aphrodisiac, but ecologists are warning that Russian caviar could disappear altogether as the Caspian Sea’s sturgeon population reaches dangerously low levels. The WWF conservation group has for the past few months waged a campaign to persuade Russians to give up their caviar habit for six years.