KUALA LUMPUR - MICHAEL Owen got his Manchester United career off to a flyer on Saturday when he scored the winner on his debut as the Premier League champions struggled past a Malaysian XI 3-2.
The former Newcastle and England striker, who moved to Old Trafford on a free transfer this month, came on as a substitute for Wayne Rooney after 60 minutes with the score at 2-2 and made the most of his chance.
ELIZABETH Yin, shy and softspoken, struggles with naming a hobby of hers. But 'collecting world titles' could be one of them.
On Saturday, she won the Laser Radial class at the Volvo Youth Sailing Isaf World Championships in Buzios, Brazil, her third world crown in as many years.
It was also Singapore's second ever title in the 39-year history of the event - and Asia's second outside of the windsurfing classes.
JAKARTA - THE first thing that Canadian businessman Andrew Cobham remembers about the Jakarta bomb attack he survived on Friday was a booming sound and a bright, white, light.
'There was a loud bang, a bright flash and suddenly you couldn't see anything or anybody. The whole place was in turmoil,' Cobham told Reuters on Saturday in a bedside interview at South Jakarta's Metropolitan Medical Centre.
BEIJING - AN OFFSHOOT of a secessionist group with ties to Al-Qaeda is threatening revenge for the deaths of Muslim Uighurs in clashes with Chinese earlier this month, a US group that monitors militant Web sites said.
The Washington-based SITE Intelligence Group said a video released this week by the Turkistan Islamic Party condemned the July 5 violence between Chinese and Uighurs in the Xinjiang region which stemmed from a brawl between the two sides in southern China in June.
