Auckland Blues centre Rua Tipoki was suspended for 16 weeks on Saturday after being found guilty of striking Western Force flyhalf James Hilgendorf in their Super 14 rugby match. The punishment, handed down at a judicial committee hearing, is the heaviest ever imposed on a New Zealand player by a Sanzar panel.
Fifth-seeded Tommy Haas dominated Andy Roddick on clay again, beating the number one seed a fourth straight time in a quarterfinal at the United States Men’s Clay Court Championship on Friday. Haas rallied from one set down to win 6-7 (1), 6-4, 6-4 in a matchup that Roddick said could have been the final. It was two years ago.
Britons, Europe’s biggest chocoholics, were set to have a cracking good time over Easter by splashing out on about 80-million Easter eggs, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said on Good Friday. A total of £520-million (-million) was to be spent on chocolate over the four-day weekend as the BRC forecast that Britons were set to blow £2,8-billion in total on food and drink.
The Sudanese foreign ministry will ask the Chadian ambassador to explain his government’s decision to severe diplomatic relations with Khartoum, a spokesperson said on Friday. Earlier on Friday, Chadian President Idriss Déby said in N’djamena his country was breaking ties with neighbouring Sudan, which he has accused of backing a rebel bid to topple him.
United States Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was directly linked to prisoner abuse for the first time yesterday, when it emerged he had been ”personally involved” in a Guantánamo Bay interrogation found by military investigators to have been ”degrading and abusive”.
Iran said on Friday it could defeat any American military action over its controversial nuclear drive, in one of the Islamic regime’s boldest challenges yet to the United States. ”You can start a war but it won’t be you who finishes it,” said General Yahya Rahim Safavi, the head of the Revolutionary Guards and among the regime’s most powerful figures.
”Darling, please don’t send me any more pasta al forno. You can send me all the cheese you want.” These words of domesticity, written between a husband and wife, betray little of the couple’s extraordinary story. The identity of the author was revealed this week as Bernardo Provenzano — the mafia boss of bosses, a man police had been hunting for 43 years.
The 1970s gave us the six-million-dollar man. Thirty years and quite a bit of inflation later we have the six-billion-dollar human: not a physical cyborg as such, instead an umbrella term for the latest developments in the growing field of technology for human enhancement.
As far as the South African schools’ curriculum is concerned, life evolved, it was not designed. The topics it covers include the Africa-cradle-of-mankind thesis, which reflects a widespread scientific consensus, and which is also likely to enjoy popular appeal in Africa, and population genetics.
Recently two new Satrix exchange-traded funds (ETFs) listed on the JSE, giving investors further low-cost opportunities to invest in South African companies. This brings to five the number of Satrix funds available to investors and the number of ETFs listed on the JSE to nine.