A seemingly drunken neurosurgeon was wrestled into custody by sheriff’s deputies while on his way to the operating room in a San Francisco-area hospital, officials said on Thursday. Frederico Castro-Moure (45) was also suspended from his post as head of neurosurgery at the Alameda County Medical Centre.
All Blacks flyhalf Daniel Carter scored a try and kicked 10 points on Friday to give the Canterbury Crusaders a 25-19 win over the Waikato Chiefs in a Super 14 rugby match. Carter scored within 15 seconds of the kick-off at Waikato Stadium, charging down a clearing kick from his opposite number, Stephen Donald.
Malawi’s private sector has drawn attention to the country’s poor business climate and called for government cooperation in creating an environment more conducive to business. The Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry has conducted a survey among 100 of its members.
China will increase its spending on science and technology by nearly 20% this year in a move to remain competitive internationally, the government said on Friday. The central government will allocate 71,6-billion yuan ($8,8-billion) from its budget for science and technology in 2006, up 19,2% over last year, said Zhang Shaochun, assistant minister of finance.
A meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the African Union opened in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on Friday to discuss the proposed transfer of the pan-African body’s peacekeeping force in Sudan’s western Darfur region to the United Nations, officials said.
John Profumo, the former British Cabinet minister whose liaison with a prostitute nearly brought down a government, and who spent more than 40 years redeeming himself with unpaid work among London’s poor, died after suffering a stroke, an official said on Friday. He was 91.
Hollywood is many things, but isolationist it is not. Long before Bob Geldof and Bono started prancing about in flyblown media enclosures like two lipless leprechauns with hard-ons for poverty, American film was showing us the world as it really is.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma will testify that he had consensual sex with the HIV-positive woman he is accused of raping at his home in Johannesburg last year.
Former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s behaviour as a former leader of the government’s campaign against HIV/Aids as well as the moral regeneration movement ”is testimony to the sad state of leadership in South Africa today”, says Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon, who has also criticised the Koeberg ”sabotage” debacle.
After shaking hands with Frank Rijkaard and commiserating with his own weary players, Jose Mourinho blew kisses to the crowd as he disappeared down the tunnel, saying farewell to Europe until the next campaign. In the VIP box, Roman Abramovich made a show of clapping along with Barcelona’s victory hymn.