It is the one moment every man wants to get right — and which London floor-fitter Lefkos Hajji could hardly have got more wrong. The luckless 28-year-old’s dreams of giving his sweetheart, Leanne (26), the ultimate proposal have literally vanished into thin air.
South Africa’s Stormers beat New Zealand’s Waikato Chiefs 35-26 in Hamilton on Friday to record their second successive win in the Super 14. The Stormers outscored the Chiefs four tries to two to claim a bonus point for the second week in a row after losing their first three matches at home in South Africa.
Chad and the United Nations Children’s Fund began on Friday to send home 103 African children that a French charity had sought to fly to France in October for adoption, authorities said. Eighty-three children were the first to leave an orphanage in Abeche, eastern Chad, on Friday in two buses.
Cyclone Jokwe, which has wreaked havoc in Mozambique, was downgraded on Friday to a tropical depression, allaying fears of a damaging hit to the tourism town of Vilankulo. However, the cyclone, now heading towards Madagascar, still had Mozambique’s coastal regions on yellow alert.
Thousands of teachers in Zimbabwe’s state schools have ended a three-week strike after being awarded a 754% salary increase by the government, their union said on Friday. ”We urge teachers to return to work,” said Raymond Majongwe, secretary general of the Progressive Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe.
Two of the country’s leading oil refineries severely affected by Tuesday night’s heavy downpour in Durban expect to be fully operational this weekend. Due to the rainstorm, at least 40% of the Engen refinery was non-operational over the past 48 hours, while the nearby Sapref plant was completely shut down.
Racism alive and well The University of the Free State race video should not have surprised so many people. The truth is that racism is alive and well, and is aided and abetted by the government, which insists on classifying everybody according to their ”race” — as defined by the apartheid regime. The beneficiaries of […]
Sony said this week it will soon sell a record deck that plugs into a computer to let vinyl collectors convert their analogue recordings into digital form. The turntable hooks up with a USB cable to a computer, where special software turns the sound into MP3 or ATRAC format.
Google expanded its power in online advertising on Tuesday when it completed its takeover of DoubleClick, a move that increases the pressure on rival Microsoft to win its hostile bid for Yahoo!. The merger came after European regulators signed off on the deal, and strengthened Google’s domination of the lucrative online ad business.
France on Tuesday won European Union approval to give â,¬99-million to several companies hoping to build a European rival to United States internet search giant Google. The EU executive says this helped fill a funding gap for something that might not otherwise win financial support.