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South Africa rugby team relieved to be back on track

AFP - Sat Nov 21, 9:41 pm ET

South Africa coach Peter de Villiers and captain John Smit agreed that the world champions were back on track following their 32-10 win over Italy here.

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South Africa Plans Special Courts for World Cup Crime, AFP Says
Bloomberg - Sat Nov 21, 4:48 am ET
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa plans to create special courts during the 2010 FIFA World Cup to speed up processing cases involving foreigners, Agence France-Presse reported, citing Justice Department Spokesman Tlali Tlali.
South African sports ministry: Semenya keeps medal
AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 19, 1:24 pm ET
South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential, the South African sports ministry said Thursday.
"I Am Changing": Dreamgirls , Poised to Tour, Opens at the Apollo Nov. 22
Playbill - 1 hour 56 minutes ago
Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen's hit 1981 Motown musical, Dreamgirls, the showbiz fairy tale about an unknown girl group that is catapulted to international stardom, opens Nov. 22 at Harlem's Apollo Theater in a new production that gives the famous material a makeover.
South Africa sports ministry: Semenya keeps medal
Sports Illustrated - Thu Nov 19, 12:04 pm ET
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential, the South African sports ministry said Thursday.
IAAF still in talks over Caster Semenya's future
Sports Illustrated - Fri Nov 20, 2:50 pm ET
MONACO (AP) -- The governing body of track and field is working behind the scenes with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issues about the 18-year-old runner's gender and career.
EPA: Uranium from polluted mine in Nev. wells
AP via Yahoo! Finance - Sat Nov 21, 6:31 pm ET
Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.
South African Runner’s Sex-Verification Result Won’t Be Public
International Herald Tribune - Thu Nov 19, 9:23 pm ET
One of the most public and controversial cases of sex verification in sports has apparently been resolved, but the results may never be made known to the public.
Volkswagen South Africa to Double Polo Exports in the Next Year
Bloomberg - Fri Nov 20, 2:05 am ET
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen of South Africa , the local unit of Europe’s largest automaker, said it will double its export production of right-hand drive Volkwagen Polos within the next year.
Africa's largest wind farm set to emerge from Kenyan desert
Washington Post - Sat Nov 21, 12:00 am ET
NAIROBI -- Kenya's Chalbi Desert is a bleak, forbidding stretch of coarse sand and ash-gray ridges broken by clusters of tiny huts. It is also one of the windiest places on Earth, experts say, and it soon will be the site of Africa's largest wind farm.
Ward claims Kessler's WBA title in 11th round
San Diego Union-Tribune - 1 hour 38 minutes ago
With a stunning victory in his hometown, Andre Ward proved he's ready for the world.
Rand Posts First Weekly Decline in Three on Intervention Talk
Bloomberg - Fri Nov 20, 11:09 am ET
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The rand declined for the first week in three as South African labor unions, politicians and the central bank raised concerns that its 25 percent rally against the dollar this year was harming the economy.
Sampdoria Striker Antonio Cassano Sets Wedding Date For Middle Of World Cup - Report
Goal.com via Yahoo! Sports - Fri Nov 20, 3:11 pm ET
'Fantantonio' is convinced that no amount of protests will see him return to the Italy squad in time for the World Cup finals in South Africa...
Rand Set for First Weekly Drop in Three on Intervention Talk
Bloomberg - Fri Nov 20, 9:33 am ET
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The rand fell, extending its first weekly decline in three, as South African labor unions, politicians and the central bank raised concerns that the currency’s 25 percent rally this year was harming the economy.
IAAF 'almost there' in resolving Semenya gender issue
USA Today - Fri Nov 20, 9:10 am ET
The IAAF said Friday it is still working behind the scenes with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issues about the 18-year-old runner's gender identity and future career.
Holiday Hits: Movies with planned releases around upcoming holidays may be in running for Best Picture for 2009
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - 14 minutes ago
With the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays directly in their sites, moviegoers cannot help but feel an additional burst of adrenaline, if only because a high percentage of movies being readied for release are expected to be highly entertaining, if not ranking with the year's very best.
Brazil appears on target for sixth World Cup title
AP via Yahoo! Sports - Fri Nov 20, 3:11 am ET
While soccer's romantics may wish for a long-awaited first for Spain or a historic African victory on South African turf, the 2010 World Cup looks as if it will end with a sixth triumph for Brazil. Coach Dunga may have alienated some fans with pragmatic rather than typically Brazilian flamboyant play, but next year's championship should end with another success for the World Cup's most...
Mandela and wife voted 'heroes' by world's children
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 20, 2:12 pm ET
Former South African president Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel have been voted Decade Child Rights Heroes by 7.1 million children, the World's Children's Prize foundation said Friday.
Alan Khazei, a 'social entrepreneur,' can raise money, too
The Standard-Times - 1 hour 55 minutes ago
BOSTON — Alan Khazei calls himself a social entrepreneur, not a politician, but he says his race for the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Ted Kennedy is the next logical step in his quest for change.
Viggo Mortensen went the extra mile to prepare for his role in ‘The Road’
The Kansas City Star - Sat Nov 21, 8:34 pm ET
One of the many shocks in “The Road,” the screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, comes when actor Viggo Mortensen pulls off his tattered, grimy clothing to luxuriate in a waterfall. The hunky star who played Aragorn in the “Lord of the Rings” movies now looks emaciated.
South African ministry: Semenya to keep medal
CBS Sports - Thu Nov 19, 9:32 am ET
The South African sports ministry says 800-meter world champion Caster Semenya will keep her gold medal, and that the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential.