THE medals they won may have been silver, but Singapore's keglers were as good as gold during Saturday's bowling team events at the Asian Youth Games.
In the girls' team event, Darshini Krishna, New Hui Fen, Anthea Soh and Ilma Nur Jannah were lying in third place after five games, 83 pinfalls behind Japan's Yuka Ohshima, Mikie Hamamoto, Shinobu Saito and Misaki Mukotani.
LONDON - SERENA Williams clinched her third Wimbledon title and 11th Grand Slam crown with a 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 victory over sister Venus, the defending champion, here on Saturday.
The victory added to her 2002 and 2003 wins at the All England Club and shattered Venus's hopes of a hat-trick of titles and sixth overall which would have taken her level with Billie Jean King.
JAKARTA - INDONESIA'S presidential candidates held their final rallies on Saturday ahead of only the second direct elections for the country's head of state since the fall of the Suharto dictatorship in 1998.
Incumbent Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is riding high after his centrist Democratic Party tripled its vote in April's general election to become the largest party in parliament.
NEW YORK - WHEN Rabbi Shmuley Boteach brought his children to play with Michael Jackson's kids at Neverland Ranch some eight years ago, the rabbi's youngsters naturally made a beeline for the fabulous rides - the Ferris wheel, the roller coaster, the bumper cars.
But when Jackson's own kids asked to go on the rides, he gently reminded them of the family rules, according to Boteach: The rides were only for birthdays or special occasions.
