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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
Icelandic pop star Björk attacked a photographer after she arrived in New Zealand’s Auckland International Airport, a report said on Monday. The singer, who also attacked a reporter in 1996 after arriving at Bangkok Airport, apparently objected to her photo being taken after landing in Auckland on Sunday.
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/ 13 January 2008
In the run-up to the ANC’s national conference at Polokwane, analysts and journalists had a field day, predicting that the movement was on the verge of a major showdown that might even result in a split. This gloomy picture was informed by what became known as the succession debate.
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/ 13 January 2008
The unimaginable has happened, to the displeasure of arrogant Europe. Africa, thought to be so poor that it would agree to anything, has said no in rebellious pride. No to the straitjacket of the economic partnership agreements (EPAs), no to the complete liberalisation of trade, no to the latest manifestations of the colonial pact.
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/ 13 January 2008
All Oscar Pistorius wants is a shot at the Olympics. But such a simple wish has turned into a contentious issue that is dividing sports fans and professors alike — even half a world away from the South African practice tracks where the double-amputee sprinter dreams of running on his artificial blades in Beijing.
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/ 13 January 2008
Indonesia’s former president Suharto, who ruled the country for more than three decades, is in a ”very critical condition” after almost all his organ functions failed, his doctor told a news conference on Sunday. Mardjo Soebiandono, chief of the medical team treating the 86-year-old at a Jakarta hospital, said there was only a 50-50 chance that he could survive.
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/ 13 January 2008
Roger Federer has shaken off a stomach virus and is 100% fit for the defence of his title at next week’s Australian Open, the Swiss said on Sunday. The world number one, who will be bidding for his 13th grand-slam title, will go into the event having not played a competitive match for two months.
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/ 13 January 2008
No red carpet, no Keira or Angelina, no best-dressed/worst-dressed lists, no goody bags, no limo rides, no parties and no champagne. Sunday’s lacklustre Golden Globe awards will sound an alarm across Los Angeles: the show does not go on.
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/ 13 January 2008
Five tourists and their pilot have been killed in Namibia after their light aircraft crashed into a house on take-off, officials said on Saturday. The five dead tourists were identified as Israeli diamond-cutters, according to the Israeli-founded humanitarian organisation Zaka, responsible for the recovery and identification of body parts.
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/ 13 January 2008
Daniel Vettori and Stephen Fleming both fell agonisingly short of making hundreds after putting New Zealand in total command of the second test against Bangladesh on Sunday. Vettori scored 94 and Fleming 87 as the Kiwis posted a big first innings total of 393 on the second day the Basin Reserve.