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Smith hails team spirit
ELATED: Jacques Kallis celebrates his dismissal of England's Andrew Flintoff, left, for 50, on the final day of the fourth cricket Test at Headingley yesterday. Kallis took 6/54 as South Africa beat England by 191 runs. (AP) LEEDS - South Africa...

Freitag wins high jump gold
PARIS - South Africa's Jacques Freitag won the men's high jump final at the World Athletics Championship here last night, clearing a height of 2,35 metres. Second was Stefan Holm of Sweden with 2,32m and third was Mark Boswell of Canada, also wit...

Alonso is Spain's new hero
MADRID - Spain's new sporting superstar, Fernando Alonso, woke up yesterday to headlines praising his barnstorming showing in Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix, where the 22-year-old became not only the first Spaniard but also the youngest driver to w...

Bombay car bombs kill 44
BOMBAY - At least 44 people were killed and 100 injured yesterday when two car bombs hidden in taxis ripped through a Hindu temple and a city landmark in the heart of India's financial capital. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the two...

Bosnian mass grave found
CRNI VRH - In a large pit surrounded by white coded body bags, forensic experts have been toiling away for a month trying to uncover the horrors of what is apparently the largest mass grave of the Bosnian war. "So far 162 complete skeletons and 46...

Chile to hear of UFO threat
SANTIAGO - The Chilean Congress was this week to hear a writer on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) to decide whether claimed visits by extraterrestrials are endangering Chile's air security, a government newspaper reported yesterday. La Nacion ...

Traditional dance
Manchu women wear traditional dress during a festival marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of Hetu Ala in northeast China's Liaoning Province. Hetu Ala was founded in 1603 by minority leader Nurhachi, the first emperor of the Qing Dynas...

Fighting mars peace deal
MONROVIA - Despite a peace deal being reached one week ago to end 14 years of war in Liberia, people here had little to cheer about yesterday amid reports of fresh fighting and a massacre in the countryside in which up to 1 000 died. Negotiators fr...

Palestinians vow revenge
RAFAH - Thousands of Palestinians swore vengeance yesterday at the funerals of four militants slain in an Israeli helicopter attack as Israel vowed to press its campaign to wipe out hardline leaders. The nearly three-year-old conflict showed no sig...

Milosevic trial resumes
THE HAGUE - A soldier who took part in the 1995 massacre of thousands of Muslims at Srebrenica, Europe's worst single atrocity since World War II, testified yesterday at the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic. The testimony came as the trial of...

45 forced off boat, drowned
MOGADISHU - At least 45 Somalis and Ethiopians trying to get to Yemen in a wooden vessel were feared drowned after being forced by the crew to jump overboard at night as they approached shore, survivors said yesterday. "They started prodding the pe...

SADC conference hails Mugabe
DAR ES SALAAM - Southern African nations called for an end to sanctions against the Zimbabawe government yesterday before meeting behind closed doors to discuss ways to fight Aids, famine and poverty. Hundreds of delegates gave Zimbabwean Presiden...

OJ grateful for good lawyers
LOS ANGELES - OJ Simpson says that without the money to pay for a "dream team" of lawyers, he would not have been acquitted of murder charges. In an interview with Playboy magazine nine years after his trial, Simpson repeatedly vowed he was innocen...

Rwandans go to polls in large numbers
KIGALI - Rwandans voted in large numbers yesterday in the first presidential election since the 1994 genocide, with the incumbent Paul Kagame expected to consolidate his hold on power in the small central African nation. Polls closed after nine hou...

Zim opposition sets deadline for talks
HARARE - Zimbabwe's opposition has given the government one month to return to talks on the country's spiralling political and economic crisis, threatening mass demonstrations if the discussions do not resume. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai sa...