Kevin Pietersen equalled his best Test score as England built an imposing first-innings total of 551-6 declared, their highest against Sri Lanka, on the second day of the first Test at Lord’s on Friday. Pietersen made 158 and put on 173 with Paul Collingwood (57).
German health experts on Friday warned football fans coming to the World Cup to have themselves vaccinated against measles, following an outbreak in a state that will host 11 matches. More than 1Â 100 people in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia have caught the disease in the past ten weeks, according to authorities in the state.
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Reiterating claims of a political conspiracy, Jacob Zuma’s lawyer argued in an affidavit on Friday for his client’s corruption trial to be concluded speedily to avoid harming his political aspirations. The affidavit was filed in support of an application by arms company Thint for particulars on corruption charges it is to face alongside Zuma.
Three explosions rocked the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on Friday afternoon, killing a person and bringing the death toll from a total of nine blasts during the day to at least four, with 41 wounded, police said. At least one person was killed and four were injured in the latest blasts.
Like Clockwork, Margie Orford’s debut crime novel, marks a new direction for this award-winning journalist, Fulbright Scholar and writer, she speaks to ZA@Play about the book.
South African President Thabo Mbeki has confirmed the appointment of a Supreme Court of Appeal judge, a provincial deputy judge president and two new judges following his acceptance of the recommendations of the Judicial Service Commission.
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Heavy fighting flared anew on Friday in the lawless Somali capital Mogadishu as Islamic militia and gunmen loyal to a United States-backed warlord alliance clashed for a sixth day with little respite. At least 13 people were killed in the new violence, and four bodies were recovered from a house hit by mortar shells in Mogadishu’s northern Sisi neighbourhood, witnesses said.
Four ministers appointed by Nepal’s king during his 14 months of absolute rule were arrested and detained for 90 days on the orders of the new government on Friday, relatives, police and media said. Former home minister Kamal Thapa, ex-foreign minister Ramesh Nath Pandey and the royal government’s spokesperson Shrish Shumshere Rana were among those rounded up.