ONE year after the revolution
that ousted President Hosni
Mubarak, the Egyptian military
is closing down civil society
organisations and trying to
manipulate the constitution-writing
process to serve its ...
THIS week we had a huge
political fight about breast
cancer. Clearly, we have now
hit the point where there's
nothing that can't be divided
into red-state-blue-state.
Nothing. The other day I saw .
´KING of roads´ in Qatar Tom
Boonen laid down his marker as
he won the opening stage of the
Tour of Qatar on Sunday.
In a mass sprint that climaxed
the 141.5 km stage from the
Barzan Tower to College of North
Atlantic, the tall Belgian of Omega
Pharma-Quick Step ...
ENGLAND was left to fight
hard to save defeat and with it
the humiliation of a first-ever
series whitewash at the hands
of Pakistan in the third and
final Test at Dubai Stadium
on Sunday.
Needing to chase its second
best achieved target in all
Tests of 324, England finished
the third day at 36-0,
with openers Andrew Strauss
(19) and Alastair Cook (15)
playing out the tricky 20
overs on an eased out pitch.
They still need another 288
runs with all ten wickets
intact in the last two days.
England´s most successful
chase to win a Test was the
332 they made against
Australia in Melbourne in
1929.
Azhar Ali hit a career-best
157 and Younis Khan´s 127 in
Pakistan´s second ...
AUSTRALIA drew first blood in the trination
one-day series with a convincing
65-run victory over India at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.
Debutant Matthew Wade clubbed 67
in a man-of-the-match performance
and David Hussey chipped in with a
brisk unbeaten 61 as Australia reached
216 for five off a rain-reduced 32 overs.
The Australians had the tourists on
the back foot after left-arm paceman
Mitchell Starc dismissed Sachin
Tendulkar (2) and Gautam Gambhir (5)
inside the opening four overs.
India was all out for 151 off 29.4 overs
for their sixth loss on the Australian
tour, after losing the four-Test series
and one of the two Twenty ...
A DIDIER-inspired Ivory
Coast and Zambia eased into
the semi-finals on day 15 at the
Africa Cup of Nations.
Chelsea icon Drogba scored
twice, after missing a spot kick,
with Manchester City star
Yaya Toure adding a magical
freekick in the Elephants´ 3-0
defeat of gallant co-hosts
Equatorial Guinea.
That Malabo quarter-final
on Saturday came after
Zambia had downed 10-man
Sudan by the same scoreline
over on the mainland in Bata.
The Ivorians will meet the
winner of Sunday´s quarterfinal
in Libreville between
Gabon and Mali, with
Zambia´s reward a last four
date with either Ghana or
Tunisia. Both games were preceded
by one minute of ...
ENGLAND was left to fight
hard to save defeat and with it
the humiliation of a first-ever
series whitewash at the hands
of Pakistan in the third and
final Test at Dubai Stadium
on Sunday.
Needing to chase its second
best achieved target in all
Tests of 324, England finished
the third day at 36-0,
with openers Andrew Strauss
(19) and Alastair Cook (15)
playing out the tricky 20
overs on an eased out pitch.
They still need another 288
runs with all ten wickets
intact in the last two days.
England´s most successful
chase to win a Test was the
332 they made against
Australia in Melbourne in
1929.
Azhar Ali hit a career-best
157 and Younis Khan´s 127 in
Pakistan´s second ... 
AUSTRALIA drew first blood in the trination
one-day series with a convincing
65-run victory over India at the
Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.
Debutant Matthew Wade clubbed 67
in a man-of-the-match performance
and David Hussey chipped in with a
brisk unbeaten 61 as Australia reached
216 for five off a rain-reduced 32 overs.
The Australians had the tourists on
the back foot after left-arm paceman
Mitchell Starc dismissed Sachin
Tendulkar (2) and Gautam Gambhir (5)
inside the opening four overs.
India was all out for 151 off 29.4 overs
for their sixth loss on the Australian
tour, after losing the four-Test series
and one of the two Twenty ...
A DIDIER-inspired Ivory
Coast and Zambia eased into
the semi-finals on day 15 at the
Africa Cup of Nations.
Chelsea icon Drogba scored
twice, after missing a spot kick,
with Manchester City star
Yaya Toure adding a magical
freekick in the Elephants´ 3-0
defeat of gallant co-hosts
Equatorial Guinea.
That Malabo quarter-final
on Saturday came after
Zambia had downed 10-man
Sudan by the same scoreline
over on the mainland in Bata.
The Ivorians will meet the
winner of Sunday´s quarterfinal
in Libreville between
Gabon and Mali, with
Zambia´s reward a last four
date with either Ghana or
Tunisia. Both games were preceded
by one minute of ...
