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/ 27 February 2005
South Africa’s premier bowlers, Shaun Pollock and Makhaya Ntini, are to be rested for the last two matches in the three-match Standard Bank limited-overs series against Zimbabwe, South Africa’s cricket authorities said. South Africa easily beat Zimbabwe in the first match on Friday, and are expected to do the same in the second match on Sunday.
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/ 27 February 2005
Bushbucks booked a place in the last 16 of the Absa Cup after beating Bloemfontein Centic six-five on penalties in a closely contested match in East London on Saturday. Manning Rangers beat Pietersburg Pillars 4-3, Lamontville Golden Arrows were beaten 1-0 by Jomo Cosmos and Kaiser Chiefs easily advanced to the last 16.
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/ 27 February 2005
Wayne Rooney kept Manchester United’s bid to catch Chelsea at the top of the Premiership on track with a superb double strike to secure victory over battling Portsmouth at Old Trafford on Saturday. Arsenal’s lingering hopes of retaining their Premiership title appeared to have been crushed after a 1-1 draw at relegation-threatened Southampton.
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/ 27 February 2005
David Toms was flawless from tee to green and made crucial putts to beat big-hitting Adam Scott to advance to the Match Play Championship semifinals for the second time in three years on Saturday. US Open champion Retief Goosen, Chris DiMarco and Ian Poulter of the United Kingdom also reached the semifinals.
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/ 27 February 2005
The ACT Brumbies started their Super 12 title defence with a costly 32-21 win over Canterbury, overcoming injuries to captain Stirling Mortlock and winger Clyde Rathbone in Saturday’s rematch of the 2004 final. Wellington beat the Queensland Reds 24-10, and the Cats, last year’s wooden-spooners, upset the Bulls 23-17 in Johannesburg.
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/ 27 February 2005
A spacecraft that flies on sunbeams is about to begin its travels across the solar system. A group of American and Russian scientists is preparing to launch a probe with giant, wafer-thin plastic sails that can catch sunlight just as a yacht’s sails fill with wind. Cosmos-1 has been designed to tack across space without using rockets.
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/ 27 February 2005
The Odyssey youth centre is hidden behind an unmarked door on an anonymous site near downtown Spokane. Nothing betrays its purpose to the outside world. Inside, gay teenagers lounge on sofas, shoot pool, flirt and surf the internet. But now activists have embarked on a radical plan to create a gay business district in the heart of the city.
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/ 27 February 2005
Sunday night’s Oscar ceremony will be the most expensive privately funded bonanza of all time. The prize-giving event itself has been both remodelled and drastically cut in length in an attempt to shore up falling television ratings, but the promotional expenditure surrounding the annual awards has spiralled out of control.
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/ 27 February 2005
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas angrily accused a ”third party” on Saturday of sabotaging the Middle East peace process by orchestrating the suicide bombing on Friday night, as Israel threatened a resumption of targeted killings of militants. Syria and Islamic Jihad have been accused of being behind the bombing.
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/ 27 February 2005
Pope John Paul II will not lead Sunday prayers for the first time in his 26-year-old pontificate and will instead follow along with the traditional address from the hospital where he is recovering from a throat operation to ease a breathing crisis. Sunday’s prayer comes after the pope’s third night in hospital care.