E Neville Isdell has come a long way from delivery boy in apartheid South Africa to chief executive of The Coca-Cola Company , and now, champion of environmental protection. Isdell took the stage alongside United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon this week, leading the call for companies to do more to protect the environment.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s trademark paunch presses a little less snugly against his jumpsuits these days, but is that due to a healthier lifestyle or is he recovering from illness? Two South Korean dailies ran pictures on Thursday of a slimmer Kim (65) at a meeting this week with China’s foreign minister.
A combination of two experimental Aids drugs can help control the deadly virus in people who are infected with highly resistant forms, an international team of researchers reported on Thursday. The two drugs — called etravirine, or TMC125, and darunavir, or TMC114 — are both made by Tibotec Pharmaceuticals.
The internet often goes through bouts of soul searching, but a full-blown counter-reformation could be on the way. If so, then Andrew Keen, author of <i>The Cult of the Amateur</i>, could be the Martin Luther of the movement. He believes the so-called web 2.0 revolution is leading to "less culture, less reliable news and a chaos of useless information".
By delivering on their promise, and changing the definition of a cellphone. That’s what the original iPod managed in the MP3 player world, filled to that point with players of limited features, lame design and duff PC integration. The cellphone industry is, of course, more mature than the MP3 player industry was in 2001.
World champions Australia are among four international teams invited to play in a Twenty20 series for a winner-takes-all prize of -million although the man behind the idea accepts issues still remain. The event is the brainchild of Allen Stanford, the Texan billionaire, who is also hoping to include Sri Lanka, India and South Africa in the week-long tournament.
An illegal stash of mining explosives was probably to blame for a nightclub blast that killed at least 25 people in north-east China, media reports said on Friday. The explosion ripped through the Liaoning province club, killing at least 25 and injuring 41, including eight young girls holding a birthday party.
A child was born with four legs at the Lebowakgomo hospital outside Polokwane on Thursday night, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reports. Provincial health department spokesperson Phuthi Seloba said: ”This is a very strange case. In the past 10 years in this province we’ve never seen such a case.”
Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika asked the army on Thursday to step up attacks on Islamist rebels, saying they were ”enemies of the people”. ”As armed forces commander in chief, I want the fight against residual terrorism doubled in intensity,” the official APS news agency quoted him as saying.
There have been some odd happenings in South African sport during the course of the 21st century. Take the case of cricketer Jacques Rudolph, who made his debut for the Proteas against India in 2001, only for the ICC retrospectively to strip the game of its Test match status.