A relieved Andy Roddick re-established his hardcourt game with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Austrian Jurgen Melzer on Monday, finally getting in the win column in the summer Masters Series. The fifth seed, who lost in his opening match a week ago in Montreal to eventual semifinalist Paul-Henri Mathieu, returned to form in the familiar surrounds of an event he won in 2003.
Australia clung on for a draw to deny England victory with just one wicket standing in a thrilling finish to the third Ashes Test at Old Trafford on Monday. Last-wicket pair Brett Lee (18 not out) and Glenn McGrath (five not out) survived the final four overs after captain Ricky Ponting fell for 156, his Test best score against England, having batted for nearly seven hours.
After rallying to another record high on Monday, the JSE drifted weaker at the opening on Tuesday, with petrochemicals group Sasol coming off following an easing in the oil price. Early volumes were light. By 9.22am, the all share index shed 0,14%. Resources retreated 0,5%, with the gold and platinum mining indices losing 1,02% and 0,59% respectively.
A technical blunder has landed North West agriculture MEC Dleleni Duma with an acquittal on a charge of drunken or reckless driving, The Citizen newspaper reported on Tuesday. It said Potchefstroom magistrate Peter Jikkels said on Monday the state had ”blundered” with particulars on the charge sheet.
Five members of the medical profession will appear in the Durban Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on charges related to trading in human kidneys, media reports said. Prominent professors who specialise in transplant operations are believed to be among the five.
Five brothers who were struggling to keep their dry, dusty sheep farm going became millionaires overnight after uranium was discovered on their land and they were paid R20-million for the mining rights. Just a few months ago the five Ngondo brothers were hard put to meet the mortgage payments after drought claimed 100 of their sheep.
A new Broadway musical about John Lennon has been panned by everyone — apart from his widow, Yoko Ono, who was closely involved in the production. ”I think he would be jumping up and down,” said Ono (72), ”I think he would have loved it.” But with virtual unanimity the critics disagreed.
At least six of the 121 people killed on Sunday in Greece’s worst air disaster were alive when the jetliner plunged into a mountain outside Athens, autopsies revealed on Monday night. The Helios Airways Boeing 737 crashed into mountains near Athens, killing all 115 passengers and six crew on a flight from Larnaca to Prague with a stop in Athens.
At the heavy steel gates to Neve Dekalim, a few voices among the crowd of angry young religious Jews were shouting ”Nazis” and ”Gestapo” at the ranks of Israeli police massing on Monday on the road beyond. The chants disquieted others who favoured singing psalms and heartfelt appeals to Jews not to expel Jews.
It was announced today that The Tuesday Night Show, the only gay and lesbian radio show that broadcasts to a national audience, will be discontinued with immediate effect.