For the first time in history, a photographer took home the top prize at the yearly SAB Sports Journalist of the Year Awards, which were held at the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg on Thursday night. Veteran photographer Etienne Rothbart from the <i>Star</i> was named sports journalist of the year in the print and internet category.
British Finance Minister Gordon Brown on Friday formally announced his candidacy to succeed Tony Blair as prime minister, a day after Blair announced his resignation. Blair on Friday enthusiastically backed Brown’s bid and United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pledged to maintain strong transatlantic ties.
Ever felt your clothes could be doing more for you? Help may be at hand from a collaboration between American scientists and designers, whose range of futuristic clothes use nanotechnology to destroy viruses such as cold and flu bugs, and scrub pollutants from the air.
Portuguese police investigating the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine McCann are ready to call off their search around Praia da Luz, the Algarve resort where she vanished. Eight days after she was apparently kidnapped from the bedroom of her parents’ holiday apartment, investigators said on Thursday night the trail had gone cold.
The virtual world of Second Life can be a place where people make new friends, listen to concerts and even campaign for president — but German investigators are looking into a more dangerous use: as a platform for real and virtual child pornography.
Will Ferrell’s Blades of Glory isn’t quite as funny as Zoolander or Dodgeball, but it deserves a solid score from the judges, writes Shaun de Waal.
Video-sharing website YouTube has agreed to block four clips Thailand says insulted its revered king, the latest twist in a spat that has stirred fierce debate about freedom of expression on the internet. Insulting royalty is a serious offence in Thailand.
New York’s Taxi and Limousine Commission unanimously approved a plan on Thursday to install touch-screen monitors in all 13 000 city cabs over the objections of some drivers who consider the technology too expensive and intrusive. The monitors are already in 200 cabs as an experiment.
Legend has it that, at the Dubai Classic two years ago, while playing a practice round, the world’s top golfers were boasting among themselves about their prowess and taunting each other about the eventual victor. World number one Tiger Woods was not billed to play, so it was open season for all the players to claim they could bag one of the richest tournaments on the golf tour.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has just clinched his ninth Premiership title. This came after an enduring battle with title rivals Chelsea over the course of the season. Money-laden Chelsea have made the league theirs in recent times, but United repsonded to the challenge. Daniel Taylor spoke Ferguson.