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/ 22 September 2005
A United States airliner with 146 people on board made a dramatic but safe emergency landing on Wednesday amid a hail of sparks and smoke after its nose wheels jammed wildly out of alignment. Sparks, flames and a pall of thick smoke erupted from the tyres as they scraped along the tarmac.
A United States astronomer said on Friday he has discovered a 10th planet in the outer reaches of the solar system that could force a redrawing the astronomical map. If confirmed, the discovery would be the first of a planet since Pluto was identified in 1930 and shatter the notion that nine planets circle the sun.
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/ 28 February 2005
Former stand-up comic Jamie Foxx, who won the best actor Oscar on Sunday for his sizzling role in Ray, plunged into the dark world of blind soul legend Ray Charles and emerged as a Hollywood heavyweight. An emotional Foxx was greeted by a standing ovation on receiving his award, as he sang a few notes in homage to Charles.
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/ 1 November 2004
”I know how hard it [is] for you to put food on your family,” a sympathetic United States President George Bush told baffled single mothers in one of his inimitable foot-in-mouth utterances. Just days ahead of Tuesday’s US presidential election, a new political film is taking a light-hearted poke at the lexicon of unique words and phrases invented by the leader of the free world.
He’s been branded a corporate bully and hailed as technological visionary, but Microsoft’s plans for a record pay-out to shareholders has thrown the spotlight on to Bill Gates, the ultra-generous philanthropist. Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a plan to deliver an estimated -billion to its shareholders over the next four years.
More than three decades after the start of the pot-powered hippie revolution, voters in six US states will vote on Tuesday on the still-smouldering issue of whether to ease laws on marijuana use.