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/ 21 October 2005
What would Jesus blog? This was among the questions considered by a conference of God bloggers in California recently, which heralded their growing numbers as potentially the most important development in the spread of Christianity since the Gutenberg printing press began churning out bibles in the 15th century.
Billions of dollars of reconstruction contracts awarded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are being investigated amid concerns of cronyism and abuse. More than 80% of the ,5Â -billion in contracts signed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency were awarded without bidding or with only limited competition.
Hollywood has been remaking old classics for years. But now Coca-Cola is jumping on the bandwagon by relaunching its most famous ad to market its latest incarnation. But the new version is set to dismay fans of the 1971 original, which featured an angelic cast of young people singing: ”I’d like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony / I’d like to buy the world a Coke and keep it company.”
Computer-generated imaging is being used to recreate historical events in a documentary for the Discovery Channel and is being hailed as the next generation of television history programmes. But how dangerous could this technology be in the wrong hands? The technique has the potential to create an entirely new genre of documentary making.
His was a classic British military establishment career. Now the old-fashioned adventurer is in prison, charged with plotting to overthrow a West African dictator. Simon Mann is accused of planning to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea by leading a mercenary force into the capital, Malabo, and kidnapping or killing the president.
Simon Mann is accused of planning to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea by leading a mercenary force into the capital, Malabo, and kidnapping or killing the president. His lawyers are fighting a formal extradition request from the West African country, where, it is safe to assume, prison conditions will be no better.
Zim 70 take SA govt to court
An important question for American and British troops in Iraq is whether Saddam Hussein will play his most fearsome card: chemical and biological weapons. Precisely which chemical or biological agents he possesses, in what quantities and whether he has the ability to launch them, are all unclear.