The United States will face worse attacks than those on September 11 2001 if it does not heed al-Qaeda demands effectively allowing the group control over Muslim countries, a US Islamist militant said on Tuesday. Adam Gadahn, a California-born convert to Islam, appeared in a video posted on the internet.
An international operation began on Tuesday night to track down transatlantic passengers who this month flew with a man now quarantined with extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). The American ignored advice not to travel on commercial airlines and took a flight from the United States to Europe.
Ethel Mutharika, wife of Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika, will be buried next week, as the country started a month of mourning for the first lady. Mutharika, a Zimbabwean national who was married to Malawi’s president for 37 years, died in the capital, Lilongwe, on Monday after a long battle with cancer.
Microsoft will unveil a coffee-table-shaped ”surface computer” on Wednesday in a major step towards Bill Gates’s view of a future where the mouse and keyboard are replaced by more natural interactions using voice, pen and touch. Microsoft said it will manufacture the machine itself and sell it initially to corporate customers.
Friday’s public-service strike is set to go ahead after the government and unions failed to reach agreement on wage increases after two days of talks in Pretoria. Last-minute talks called by the government broke down in the early hours of Wednesday morning at the Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council.
President George Bush has chosen Robert Zoellick, a former United States trade representative, to replace Paul Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank, a senior official said on Tuesday. Bush plans to announce his selection on Wednesday and expects the bank’s board to accept it, the administration official said.
Does KwaZulu-Natal get enough credit for its groundbreaking work in launching Zulu media? Not only are these publications financially successful but they also create new newspaper readers. Fienie Grobler suggests that the rest of the country can take a leaf from the KZN booklet.
Lutz Schniewind, media planner at Universal McCann, explains how to use "word of mouse" to promote an African designer watch for the rich and famous.
The blogosphere is more than just a fad. It represents very real competition to traditional media publishers which includes online publishers, writes Matthew Buckland.
The newspaper industry has honoured media veteran Raymond Louw as a Lifetime Achiever at the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Awards. His name is synonymous with the right to press freedom and <i>The Media</i> thought it fitting to chat to him in May when we celebrate press freedom day.