Delta Air Lines is set to emerge from 19 months of bankruptcy protection in another sign that one of the bleakest chapters for the United States airline industry may be coming to an end. The third-largest US carrier could exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy as early as Monday.
A young Australian diplomat was mauled by lions at a wildlife park in Zimbabwe, but survived because her boyfriend scared the animals away, a report said on Sunday. Gemma Huggins (27) was visiting the lion and cheetah park outside Harare when a lion grabbed her by the head and shook her, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
The front page was hurriedly pulled off the early edition of this weekend’s Sunday Times to comply with a court order barring its lead story, resulting in the newspaper being distributed without it. The interdict was issued by Judge Bruce Burman after a party alleged that the lead story contravened the Divorce Act.
Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster will play the leading role of Leni Riefenstahl in a work that is bound to generate immense argument, as it examines the beautiful woman who became Adolf Hitler’s favourite director and whose slick propaganda helped the Nazi war machine.
Though the gap between Ségolène Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French right-wing presidential candidate and favourite, has narrowed by a percentage point or two, Sarkozy has preserved his lead. Most polls show him winning the vote next Sunday, winning about 51% to Royal’s 47%.
Turkey came under mounting pressure from the European Union on Saturday night to rein in the influence of its generals, after the country’s powerful pro-secular military threatened to intervene in the Islamic-oriented government amid growing turmoil over the election of a new president.
Crematoriums in Australia are installing super-size furnaces to deal with the super-size coffins needed to contain super-size corpses, news reports said on Sunday. More than half of all Australian men are overweight or obese and almost half of all women.
Two men and a 16-year-old boy have been arrested in connection with the rape of an 18-year-old pregnant woman, Northern Cape police said on Saturday. The three, who allegedly raped the woman on Sunday, were arrested at Galeshewe near Kimberley on Friday, said Captain Tony Modise.
Ace Magashule, the Free State African National Congress (ANC) chairperson, has made a scathing attack at a regional conference on supporters from the Thabo Mofutsanyane district in the eastern part of the province, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Saturday.
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Match referee Jeff Crowe took the blame for the farcical finish to the World Cup final that saw Australia celebrate victory twice and forced Sri Lanka to bat in pitch-black darkness. But he suggested third umpire Rudi Koertzen may have initiated a process that led to chaotic scenes at the climax of cricket’s showpiece game.