Captain Rahul Dravid led from the front as India crushed England by four wickets on Thursday to take an unassailable 4-0 lead in the seven-match one-day series. Dravid fashioned England’s dismissal for 237 with astute bowling changes and then hit 65 off 73 balls to help the hosts surpass the modest target with 16 deliveries to spare at the Nehru stadium.
As the screws started tightening on LeisureNet’s bosses, they instructed their former in-house architect to invest 000 in an overseas development he knew nothing about. The architect, Dawid Rabie, was in the witness box for a second day in the trial of former LeisureNet joint chief executives Peter Gardener and Rodney Mitchell, their business associate Hans Moser, and Mitchell’s wife Suzanne.
Hip hop will be blasting from the speakers and aerosol fumes will thicken the air as the country’s most talented graffiti crews line up for the Write4Gold 2006 graffiti competition in Johannesburg next month. It is the first time that the Germany-based graffiti and aerosol art competition goes global. Write4Gold, a non-profit and previously pure European event, will visit 17 cities on four continents.
Kenyan authorities simulated a major plane crash at Nairobi’s main airport on Thursday, causing confusion after international reports that a serious accident had occurred. The exercise — plans for which had been announced last month — was aimed at giving emergency workers experience in dealing with a large-scale disaster, but officials gave initial conflicting reports about the alleged accident.
A third person has died from bird flu in Egypt, the hardest-hit non-Asian country in the world, as health officials struggled on Thursday to enforce preventive measures. Iman Mohammed Abdel Gawad, a 16-year-old girl from the northern governorate of Menufiya, died after being rushed to hospital on Wednesday suffering from high fever and shortness of breath.
Mamelodi Sundowns, a team who have earned the reputation in recent times of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, are threatening to do it again. The Brazilians went down 2-0 to a well-drilled, opportunist Jomo Cosmos at Atteridgeville’s Super Stadium on Wednesday night and in the process surrendered much of their advantage in the intense Premier League title race.
Deputy Defence Minister Mluleki George said on Thursday he would try to determine what resources South Africa can commit to help secure the landmark election in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). On Wednesday the DRC’s Defence Minister, Adolphe Onusumba, presented a long list of needs for the country’s defence force.
The renowned Michelin Guide, which rates restaurants and hotels, announced on Wednesday that it is producing its first review of the US West Coast. The guide will cover the San Francisco and San Jose areas as well as the increasingly chic ”Wine Country” of the Sonoma and Napa valleys.
A cockpit recording from a plane hijacked on September 11 will be played in public for the first time at a trial to decide whether Zacarias Moussaoui should be executed. Judge Leonie Brinkema agreed to a prosecution request to play the tape from United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a field in Pennsylvania after a passenger uprising against the hijackers.
The IT executive at the centre of an alleged hoax e-mail conspiracy within the African National Congress had no action pending in the high court over his arrest, the Pretoria Regional Court heard on Thursday. Muziwendoda Sikhona Kunene’s representatives had asked that the case be set aside because of high court action over his arrest on a search-and-seizure warrant rather than an arrest warrant.