JOHANNESBURG: Champions New Zealand have made two changes from the team that swamped Argentina last weekend for a Rugby Championship final round showdown with South Africa in Soweto tomorrow. Hosea Gear is recalled on the left wing in place of Julian Savea, who scored two of the seven All Blacks tries in the 54-15 whipping of the Pumas in La Plata, and Brodie Retallick replaces Luke Romano at lock. Romano is included among the seven replacements, but there is no room for Savea on Read more [...]

LONDON — The Senkaku Islands dispute between Japan and China is potentially dangerous and needs to be handled coolly but also sensitively. But it is not equivalent to the British dispute with Argentina over ownership of the Falkland Islands as some Japanese commentators have argued. The Falklands Islands in the South Atlantic were settled by British people some 200 years ago. The islands have a population of over 3,000. They have made it clear in free and fair elections that they wish to remain Read more [...]

Britons are so cavalier about spreading infection the country could be wide open to an epidemic, say expertsMany people in the UK fail to follow simple rules like washing their hands or sneezing into a tissue By Jenny Hope PUBLISHED: 23:16 GMT, 4 October 2012 | UPDATED: 23:17 GMT, 4 October 2012 Britons take fewer basic hygiene precautions against catching the flu than people in America, Mexico, Japan and Argentina, say doctors.In fact, they are so cavalier about spreading or getting Read more [...]