Australia beat England by 239 runs to win the first Test at Lord’s on Sunday with more than a day to spare. England, chasing what would have been a Test world record fourth innings victory total of 420, were bowled out for 180 after tea on the fourth day.
A suicide truck bomber struck on Sunday outside a police station in Baghdad, killing at least 40 people, the United States military said. Television pictures showed a deep crater in the road outside the Rashad police station in the New Baghdad neighbourhood in the east of the capital, as ambulances and fire fighters attended the scene.
Egyptian police have detained scores of suspects following the terrorist attack at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheik that killed almost 90 people. At least 70 people have been arrested in the roundup, which appeared similar to police operations after last October’s incidents at the Sinai resorts of Taba and Ras Shitan, when 3 000 people were detained.
There may be one single penguin as the mascot for Linux, but there are countless Linuxes — different versions that aim to fulfill different niches. Some function as printer servers, while others as digital video recorders. And then there are also the large versions, complete with easy-to-use installation routines and large software packages.
Mel Gibson, whose religious film The Passion of Christ became the surprise megahit of 2004, will direct a new action film that will again take him back to ancient times. Gibson will go behind the camera to make Apocalypto, an action and violence-packed movie set in an ancient civilisation around 3 000 years ago.
While South African Airways faced what could be the most crippling strike in its history, the Sunday Times has reported that the airline’s chief executive Khaya Ngqula on Friday ”abandoned” his post to attend a ”junket” at a luxurious Mpumalanga hotel.
Seven-year-old Masaaki Tanabe spent that hot and humid summer playing in the gardens of the industrial promotion hall, beneath the striking green dome which had become a local landmark. In those days Hiroshima, set against rolling mountain peaks and spread across a delta dotted by bridges, was known as the ”city of water”.
In one of the bloodiest attacks yet on a top international tourist destination, three bombs exploded almost simultaneously in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh early on Saturday morning. At least 88 people were killed and up to 200 were injured after the series of blasts brought carnage to Egypt’s most popular resort.
The road from the airport to the centre of Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, should be a straightforward drive. Six lanes wide and well maintained, it has lights, even banks of flowers. But it is choked by a throng of black and yellow taxis, overloaded buses, lorries, scores of motorbikes and hundreds of bicycles. On a bank beside the road, spelled out in six-feet high letters: ‘Faith, discipline and unity’.
Championship leader Valentino Rossi of Italy won Sunday’s rain-soaked British MotoGP, with Kenny Roberts of the United States taking second place and Brazil’s Alex Barros third. American Colin Edwards was fourth. Six-time champion Rossi took the lead near the end of the 29-lap race, passing Barros with about a half-dozen laps remaining.