The season’s finale leaves our two reviewers wanting
Living in Georgia in the US for a few years, John Robinson, aka Sci, built a close bond with DOOM. In this two-part interview, he reminisces on the moments they shared
Living in Georgia in the US for a few years, John Robinson, aka Sci, built a close bond with DOOM. In this two-part interview, he reminisces on the moments they shared
DOOM collaborator Stahhr shares game from the masked villain and how they crafted some of hip-hop’s dopest songs
Known as a hub of revolution during the Civil Rights Movement, Atlanta has once again been at the forefront of police brutality protests in the US
From the music to the plot, ‘The Photograph’ is a refreshing take on two people falling in love
The awards ceremony will be re-screened tonight on M-Net channel 101 at 8.30pm.
Unable to migrate and not enough time to adapt to climate change, the Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frog is extinct.
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/ 16 November 2008
The election of the first black president in US history should send a powerful signal to young black Americans: If Barack Obama made it, so can you.
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/ 26 September 2008
Anthony Kim maintained his form from last week’s Ryder Cup to charge into the lead in Thursday’s opening round at the Tour Championship.
It could be the setting for a <i>Jaws</i> movie: six snorkellers cruising just below the surface, until the mysterious whale shark appears.
A tornado hit downtown Atlanta on Friday night, causing several injuries and damaging buildings, including the roof of the Georgia Dome where thousands were watching a college basketball game, police and witnesses said. Nine people were taken to hospitals, one in serious condition, as a result of the heavy storm, police said.
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/ 22 September 2007
The site of the deadliest hotel fire in United States history — a tragedy that led to nationwide fire-safety reforms — will open to guests next month as a new boutique hotel after a -million makeover. In 1946, 119 people died in a fire that helped forever change fire codes across the country.
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/ 16 September 2007
Tiger Woods maintained his three-shot lead at the Tour Championship after resisting a glut of low scoring on Saturday, spearheaded by United States Masters champion Zach Johnson with a dazzling 10-under-par 60. Woods, hunting a seventh PGA Tour title this year and inaugural FedExCup honours, fired a 64 in the third round at a sun-drenched East Lake Golf Club.
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/ 15 September 2007
Tiger Woods played a six-hole stretch in seven-under par but followed with a back nine of even-par golf that left him three strokes ahead of the field on Friday after two rounds of the United States Tour Championship. Tearing apart a defenceless course at East Lake Golf Club, Woods made five straight birdies and capped it with a 70-foot eagle putt on the par-five ninth hole to make the turn in 28.
Atlanta residents squared off Tuesday at a public hearing on a proposed city-wide ban on low-slung pants — or any clothing that exposes underwear in public. The proposed ordinance is the brainchild of city councillor CT Martin, deputy chairperson of the public safety and legal administration committee.
The lesson plan is called ”Artificial Unintelligence”, but it is written more like a comic book than a syllabus for a serious computer-science class. ”Singing, dancing and drawing polygons may be nifty, but any self-respecting evil roboticist needs a few more tricks in the repertoire if they are going to take over the world,” read the day’s instructions.
Yolanda King, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jnr’s eldest child who pursued her father’s dream of racial harmony through drama and motivational speaking, has died. She was 51. King died late on May 15 in Santa Monica, California, said Steve Klein, a spokesperson for the King Centre.
The killings at Virginia Tech university on Monday will stir fresh debate in the United States over gun control and what drives people to go on shooting rampages through schools and colleges. School shootings have prompted changes to school safety rules and sparked debate over the availability of guns.
Ernie Els continued his post-Masters rehabilitation by storming three shots clear of the field at the halfway stage of the Heritage Classic at Hilton Head, South Carolina on Friday. Two strokes off the pace overnight, the South African birdied five of his last eight holes for a second successive six-under-par 65.
Ernie Els made partial amends for his missed cut at last week’s Masters with a fast start at the Heritage Classic in Hilton Head, South Carolina, on Thursday. The world number five, who failed to qualify for the weekend for the first time in a major since the 1999 PGA Championship, fired a six-under-par 65 in the opening round at a breezy Harbour Town Golf Links.
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/ 25 January 2007
A man has been charged in connection with the murder of two black teenagers abducted and killed in Mississippi in 1964 at the height of the United States civil rights era, US officials said on Wednesday. James Seale was arrested in the case and charges against him were sealed, according to a US law enforcement official.
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/ 4 November 2006
Australian Adam Scott fired a three-under par 67 in Atlanta on Friday to grab a share of the lead with American Joe Durant after the second round of the United States PGA Tour Championship. The 26-year-old Aussie and 42-year-old US veteran both stood on four-under-par 136 after 36 holes.
Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that can be altered by anyone with a computer, has proved remarkably useful for pulling political dirty tricks. Political operatives are covertly rewriting — or defacing — candidates’ biographical entries to make the boss look good or the opponent look ridiculous.
The particles the Stardust probe brought back to Earth in January are a mixture of extremely hot and cold minerals pointing to a mixed origin of the Wild 2 comet, Nasa scientists said. Rather than the balls of ice, dust and gas astrophysicists thought they were, comets turn out to be celestial bodies of complex and varied origins.
The case has it all — money, power, an international manhunt and a hit by a killer carrying a gun along with a dozen long-stemmed pink roses. On Thursday, nearly 19 years after Lita Sullivan was fatally shot on the doorstep of her townhouse in a wealthy neighbourhood, her husband, James Sullivan, once one of the FBI’s ”Most Wanted” fugitives, will go on trial for murder.
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/ 7 November 2005
Bart Bryant fended off a challenge from world number one Tiger Woods on Sunday to post a six-shot win at the ,5-million PGA Tour Championship that surprised even himself. Retief Goosen, who started the day in second place, was off his game, leaving it to Woods to provide the only real threat.
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/ 5 November 2005
Defending champion Retief Goosen of South Africa posted a second-round 66 on Friday to grab a share of the lead alongside Bart Bryant at the ,5-million US PGA Tour Championship. Bryant, who opened with a course-record 62 on Thursday, birdied two of his first three holes on Friday.
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/ 2 November 2005
A woman accused of helping her husband kill their eight-year-old daughter in an Atlanta motel because they believed she was demonic has pleaded guilty to murder. The woman and her husband were found walking down a busy street naked in freezing temperatures with their two other children on their shoulders.
Lance Armstrong is set to make an announcement on Monday that is expected to settle questions on whether he will retire from cycling after this summer’s Tour de France, where he will try for a seventh straight title. Earlier this month, Armstrong called retirement ”a possibility” and said ”I am still thinking about that”.
Phil Mickelson carded a seven-under 65 to move into contention after a lengthy Sunday at the -million PGA BellSouth Classic, which finally saw the weather take a turn for the better. Mickelson is tied with Billy Mayfair (71) and two-time Masters champion Jose Maria Olazabal (69). The trio is stalking American Scott McCarron.
A United States federal appeals court agreed early on Wednesday to consider a petition by Terri Schiavo’s parents for a new hearing on whether to reconnect their severely brain-damaged daughter’s feeding tube. The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled without comment on Schiavo’s 12th day without nourishment.