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/ 14 January 2008
A Sri Lankan man has been released from prison after spending 50 years on remand, his lawyer said on Monday. DP James, now 80, was arrested in August 1958 for attacking and wounding his father with a knife. He was sent to jail, then moved to a psychiatric hospital, and then discharged back to jail — where he was forgotten about.
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/ 14 January 2008
Toyota will produce a small fleet of plug-in hybrids by 2010, the Japanese automaker’s chief said on Sunday. The plug-in hybrid will go head-to-head with United States rival General Motor’s Chevy Volt, which is also expected to hit the road in 2010.
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/ 14 January 2008
Young Japanese people are evolving a new lifestyle for the 21st century based on the cellphones that few are now able to live without. While about one-third of Japanese primary school students aged seven to 12 years-old use cellphones, by the time they get to high school that figure has shot up to 96%.
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/ 14 January 2008
The scenes of boisterous revelry would not have been out of place in a crowded nightclub. In time to a throbbing beat, men and women of varying ages danced with a sensuality and abandon at odds with their surroundings. For this frivolity was taking place not on a dance floor, but in the passageway of an Iranian bus on a seemingly humdrum cultural excursion from Tehran to the western city of Hamedan.
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/ 14 January 2008
Thousands of South African nurses are doing it for themselves when it comes to extending their skills and training — with the aid of locally developed distance learning courses. The Perinatal Education Programme was set up in 1989 by Professor Dave Woods, then at the University of Cape Town, and colleagues who wanted to improve the skills of healthcare workers caring for pregnant women.
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/ 14 January 2008
One of the most irritating things about the violence that recently rocked Kenya, as every middle- and upper-class Nairobian will tell you, was the fact that many maids, guards and nannies did not show up for work for a whole week. This was not because they were protesting against their inhuman working conditions or low salaries.
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/ 14 January 2008
Things are calmer in much of Kenya after a week of national hell. In Kibera, Kangemi, Dandora and all the burning slums, people are trying to get back to work and to find food. The roads in and out of Eldoret are open now — although it is there, and in other parts of the Rift Valley, where things remain volatile.
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/ 14 January 2008
Six months after giving birth to her daughter, Eva, Orlaith McAllister had her breasts done, going from a C cup to a D cup. ”I breastfed for five weeks and I noticed that my breasts got smaller, especially on one side,” she says. ”When Eva was born, she latched on to the left breast immediately and got to like that one, so it was noticeably smaller.
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/ 14 January 2008
Storm clouds continue to gather over the controversial and seemingly universal slide towards nuclear power. While proponents and antagonists construct compelling reasons for and against its use, the jury stays out on its potentially harmful environmental effects. Local anti-nuclear activists are infuriated that an international panel listed Valli Moosa, chairperson of the Eskom board and former environment minister, one of “50 people who could save the planet”.
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/ 14 January 2008
On January 1 the African Union Mission in Sudan handed over to the ”hybrid” United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur, known as UNamid. The transfer marked the end of the African Union’s biggest, most challenging and, some say, most controversial and ambitious peace observation and peacekeeping operation.