Johannesburg - The advertisements began in local media at the weekend. "The Champions are coming," they say. Come watch Brazil for only 70 rand.
In seven months' time, some of the greatest footballing nations will descend on South Africa for the June 14-28 Confederations Cup, an eight-country tournament held every four years in the World Cup host nation a year before the world's most-watched sporting event.
The United States, Brazil, Spain, Iraq, Egypt and New Zealand - champions of their regions - and World Cup holders Italy and host nation South Africa will battle it out for the title of Champion of Champions in a tournament seen mainly as a dry run for 2010.
JSW Steel Ltd, India's second major private sector steel manufacturer has announced that its wholly owned arm JSW Building Systems Ltd, has entered into a joint venture with UK-based Severfield Reeve Structures with the aim to create significant steelwork business based in Bellary district of Karnataka.
According to the sources, in joint venture (JV) JSW Severfield Structures Ltd, the two partners will hold 50 per cent equity participation each.
Cairo - While football fans from the participating countries at the Confederations Cup will be looking towards the draw for the competition on November 22 in Johannesburg for answers, Egyptian fans already know in which group they will play.
The reigning African champions will compete in Group B, as the hosts South Africa have been placed in Group A and no two teams from the same confederation can be placed in the same group.
But if the Pharaohs' fans know what group their team will be playing in, they are less sure how good the team will be, even if team officials are optimistic.
Washington, November 18: A high-performance computing system at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been proclaimed the world’s fastest supercomputer for science.
The Cray XT, called Jaguar, has been ranked first in the list of the world’s top 500 computers, released at an annual international supercomputing conference in Austin on Tuesday.
Melbourne, Nov 18: Former Australian off-spinner Colin Miller has said that off-spinner Jason Krezja, who took a record 12 wickets in his debut Test against India recently, has the potential of playing for his country for the next decade “provided he keeps his private life in order”.
Miller said that Kreja even outperformed India’s ace spinner Harbhajan Singh in the last Test at Nagpur.
Baghdad - One of the few positive stories coming out of war- torn Iraq in recent years has been the success of their national football teams.
Since 2003, when the country sent an under-23 team to the Asian Cup and managed to qualify for the quarter-finals, Iraqi teams have been grabbing their fair share of international headlines.
In 2004, the international media followed their Cinderella story at the Olympic Games in Athens as the same under-23 team reached the semi-finals of the Olympic football tournament and finished fourth.
But if Iraqi fans thought it could get no better, they were in for a pleasant surprise as Iraq won the silver medal in the football tournament at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha.
JSW Steel Ltd, India's second major private sector steel manufacturer has announced that its wholly owned arm JSW Building Systems Ltd, has entered into a joint venture with UK-based Severfield Reeve Structures with the aim to create significant steelwork business based in Bellary district of Karnataka. 
Melbourne, Nov 18: Former Australian off-spinner Colin Miller has said that off-spinner Jason Krezja, who took a record 12 wickets in his debut Test against India recently, has the potential of playing for his country for the next decade “provided he keeps his private life in order”.
