It was not the fact that he was asked to give up his seat on a JetBlue Airways plane on behalf of a flight attendant that appears to have upset Gokhan Mutlu so much. It was the alternative seat he was offered — in the toilet. Mutlu has lodged a -million lawsuit in a Manhattan court complaining that he was told to ”go hang out” in the toilet.
Dozens of people were killed and more than 100 injured when six bombs ripped through the centre of Jaipur, one of India’s most popular tourist destinations. The explosions, which began at 7.30pm, took place in markets surrounding the city’s pink palace, the Hawa Mahal, and its main temple complex.
The African National Congress (ANC) on Tuesday night called on members of the Alexandra community to remain calm and to allow police to handle the situation. ANC Alexandra spokesperson, Pule Phalatse, said the party had attended a meeting held at the Sankopano community centre on the corner on Selbourne and 12th Avenue in Alexandra.
Her bed is on the third floor of Gaza’s Shifa hospital, where shafts of warm afternoon sunshine reach in from the window. The ward is crowded, and the bed on which Asma’a Abu Me’tiq lay is curtained off from the rest and surrounded by the blankets her sister-in-law uses when she sleeps on the floor next to her at night.
Questions about Barack Obama’s inability to win over white, working-class voters were raised again tonight when Hillary Clinton won a landslide victory in West Virginia, one of the last contests of a prolonged primary season. Exit polls indicated she had won the state easily, by a margin of two to one.
Our Constitution includes a range of socio-economic rights. The challenge to the judiciary was to achieve a balance between enforcement of these rights and deferring to the policy choices of a democratically elected government. The judiciary has precious little precedent to assist it in protecting entrenched rights without so burdening the state with judicially inserted requirements that the latter cannot properly perform its functions.
The shady streets of Rangoon, one of Asia’s greenest cities, could have been changed forever by Cyclone Nargis, which knocked down many of its 100-year-old trees. People in Burma’s biggest city fear the storm’s 190 km/h winds not only took lives but also ruined livelihoods, dealing a blow to an already fragile tourism industry.
Queues for petrol on British petrol station forecourts appear to bear scant relation to ongoing killing, rape and mass refugee movements in eastern Congo. The unfolding humanitarian disaster in ungoverned Somalia likewise seems unconnected to Western taxpayers’ worries about falling mortgage lending and rising prices.
As a perky little girl, Veronica McKay used a big stick to round up her three siblings and everyone else in her vicinity to come to her "school". Sitting them down, she made them learn whatever she had put on her chalkboard.
There is no doubt house prices are starting to weaken. This week Standard Bank’s Property Gauge showed an 8,6% fall in property prices for April. Houses are increasingly being sold at below their initial asking price and are staying on the market for longer, says the bank’s report.