adminAussies’ Agar lights up Ashes
NOTTINGHAM. — Teenage Australia debutant Ashton Agar fell agonisingly short of becoming the first Test match No 11 to score a century as he frustrated England with a record-breaking 98 on the second day of the Ashes opener at Trent Bridge yesterday.Rooney suffers hamstring injury, out for a month
BANGKOK. — Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney will be out of action for a month after sustaining a hamstring injury on the club’s tour of Asia.Rooney suffered the problem during a training session yesterday and when scans showed there was no chance he would be able to play during the tour, the England star was sent
Guardiola wants Thiago
MUNICH. — Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola yesterday confirmed the European champions’ interest in Barcelona midfielder Thiago Alcantara.Spanish media had already linked the 22-year-old Alcantara to the Champions League winners and ex-Barcelona coach Guardiola has admitted he has asked the Bavarian giants
Rainstorms leave 28 dead in China
BEIJING. – Rainstorm-triggered natural disasters over the past four days have left 28 people dead and 66 more missing across China, according to the latest official count.Torrential rain that started sweeping across the country from Sunday has led to floods and landslides, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said yesterday in its daily update on the losses
Mlambo Ngcuka gets UN post
UNITED NATIONS. – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, a former deputy president of South Africa and women’s advocate, as the new head of the United Nations body tasked with promoting women’s rights and their full participation in global affairs.
Malema’s EFF to contest 2014 poll
JOHANNESBURG. – Julius Malema officially launched his new political organisation, the Economic Freedom Fighters yesterday.
Malema said it was agreed by members that the EFF would be a radical leftist movement that will look to contest the 2014 elections.
US presses on with F-16 transfer to Egypt
WASHINGTON. – The United States plans to go through with the delivery of four F-16 fighter jets to Egypt in the coming weeks, US defence officials have said, even after the Egyptian military brought down president Mohamed Morsi.Ushewokunze: Chip off prior blocks
Fortious Nhambura Features Writer“I am a servant of the people. When voted into Parliament I will remain with them. I am cut from that breed of parliamentarians who are always with the people hearing their concerns and finding ways to solve their problems.
Building collapse claims seven
LAGOS – A pregnant woman and a baby were among seven people killed after a residential building collapsed in Nigeria’s most crowded city, Lagos, yesterday. Two other women and three men perished as a result of the collapse. Another seven people were plucked from the rubble.Sables bask in glory of great win
From Paul Munyuki in POLOKWANE, South AfricaVERY few, if any fans at all, expected the Zimbabwe national senior rugby side to pull off a win against Madagascar in front of their home crowd in Antananarivo on Wednesday afternoon given a dark cloud of controversy in their camp prior to departure.