A crowded bus plunged off a cliff into a deep ravine in Guatemala on Friday, killing 37 people and injuring 25, emergency workers said. The bus was packed with people traveling to the village of Chiquimulilla in southern Guatemala when it skidded off the edge as it sped around a bend.
Ken Livingstone will be thumbing through his thesaurus in search of new adjectives. The United States embassy in London — whose head has been described by the London mayor as a ”chiselling little crook” — now owes more than £2-million in unpaid congestion charge payments and other traffic penalties.
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/ 29 February 2008
This year’s winners of the Oscar for best picture, Joel and Ethan Coen, have never shied away from blood. They talk to John Patterson.
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/ 29 February 2008
Industrial users of electricity feel that they are bearing the brunt of electricity rationing, while more needs to be done to involve other sectors of society, an energy working group said in Cape Town on Friday. ”Busa [Business Unity South Africa] said that businesses are bearing the brunt of this and need the rest of the economy to come in,” Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin said.
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/ 29 February 2008
Chad extended a state of emergency by a further 15 days on Friday, saying it was needed to maintain state authority almost a month after a rebel attack on the capital, Ndjamena. The state of emergency gives the government wide search-and-arrest powers and also permits control of media reporting.
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/ 29 February 2008
Securing an interview with Robert Mugabe was almost as demanding as researching and writing <i>Dinner with Mugabe</i>, says Heidi Holland.
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/ 29 February 2008
Gwen Ansell reviews <i>Red Mandarin Dress</i>, the fifth of the Inspector Chen novels.
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/ 29 February 2008
<b>MOVIE OF THE WEEK:</b> Shaun de Waal reviews the Coen brother’s <i>No Country for Old Men</i> which recently won a slew of Oscars recently.
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/ 29 February 2008
Sello S Alcock speaks to a rising star on the international piano circuit.
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/ 29 February 2008
Architect Luyanda Mpahlwa describes the process of creating and realising new housing solutions on Mitchells Plain.