Egypt win seventh Nations Cup January 31, 2010 SUBSTITUTE Mohamed Gedo scored an 85th-minute winner as Egypt beat Ghana 1-0 to win a record seventh Africa Cup of Nations title in Angola. Gedo, who finished the tournament’s top scorer, curled a superb effort past Richard Kingston after a one-two with Mohamed Zidan. Egypt are the first team to win three successive titles.
Fit-again Karlsson triumphs in Qatar January 31, 2010 GOLF: European Ryder Cup star Robert Karlsson carded a blemish-free final round of 65 to win the Qatar Masters by three shots. The Swede finished 15 under par, with defending champion Alvaro Quiros of Spain his closest challenger. England’s Lee Westwood was a further shot adrift as overnight leaders Paul Casey and Bradley Dredge slipped [...]
Higgins claims Welsh open title January 31, 2010 SNOOKER: World champion John Higgins dethroned title-holder Ali Carter with a 9-4 victory in the Welsh Open final last night in Newport. The Scot raced into a 5-0 lead and held a 6-2 advantage going into the evening session, before wrapping up victory and the title with a break of 76. Victory leaves Higgins close [...]
Afridi banned for biting ball January 31, 2010 CRICKET: Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi is set to miss the first Twenty20 clash with England after being found guilty of biting the ball. Afridi was caught trying to alter the state of the ball during yesterday’s one-day defeat to Australia, which sealed a 5-0 whitewash for the hosts. He will miss Friday’s fixture against the [...]
‘Michael who?’ says Russian rookie January 31, 2010 FORMULA ONE: Rookie Vitaly Petrov is set to become F1’s first Russian driver after Renault confirmed his signing for the coming season. Petrov, 25, has never driven an F1 car before but is thought to be bringing £9m in sponsorship money, and said he had rejected an offer from the Campos Meta team. “I only [...]
Amazon profits soar thanks to book reader January 29, 2010 AMAZON profits surged by 71 per cent in the final three months of 2009. The online bookseller said its Kindle electronic book reader had driven the sales boom. The device – Amazon’s bestselling product – will face competition from Apple’s new iPad, which was unveiled this week. Overall sales at Amazon – which now offers [...]
House prices start 2010 with a lift January 28, 2010 HOUSE prices jumped bye 1.2 per cent in January compared with the previous month, according to figures from the Nationwide Building Society. The average UK home costs £163,481, following the ninth monthly property price rise in a row. Nationwide’s chief economist, Martin Gahbauer said figures which showed the UK economy had come out of of [...]
Debenhams appoints new chairman January 28, 2010 DEBENHAMS has appointed Nigel Northridge as its new chairman to replace John Lovering. The company said Northridge – currently chairman of betting group Paddy power – will step up to the role on 1 April Lovering had chaired the retailer since 2003 and led its flotation on the London Stock Exchange in 2006. Northridge is [...]
EasyJet lands EMI Music executive January 28, 2010 EasyJet has appointed EMI Music executive Chris Kennedy as its new finance director. Kennedy, chief investment officer and president of EMI Music’s corporate development unit, will replace interim chief financial officer Mark Adams. The budget airline has been trying to fill the role for nine months after the airline’s previous chief financial officer, Jeff Carr, [...]
Tories: We won’t split big banks January 28, 2010 TORY Treasury chief George Osborne yesterday moved to reassure bankers that his party had no plans to break up large banks. Speaking at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Osborne made it clear that the party had no intention of backing a return to the 1930s Glass-Steagall Act that at the time prevented [...]
