A man stormed into a London restaurant and hacked off his own penis in front of horrifed diners, an Italian restaurant said on Tuesday. The man charged into a branch of a pizza and pasta chain Zizzi in a tourist area of central London on Sunday.
In a big win for a little Wi-Fi startup called Fon, Time Warner Cable will let its home broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hot spots, a practice shunned by most United States internet service providers (ISPs). Fon has forged similar agreements with ISPs across Europe.
The fraud case against Brett Kebble’s former security chief, Clinton Nassif, was postponed in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday. The prosecutor told the magistrate the state and the defence had agreed that the matter be postponed to September 11 for further investigation.
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The body of slain Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was released by a coroner and will be returned to his South African homeland. In the meantime, a coroner’s inquest scheduled to begin on Monday was postponed indefinitely because of undisclosed developments in the case.
Game-park owner Dirk Brink (58) died of a stroke and was not killed by the lions that mauled him, media reports said on Tuesday. This came to light during the post-mortem on Brink, who owned the Krugersdorp Game Reserve. It showed that he was attacked by the pride at Ngonyama Lion Lodge only after his death from a stroke.
The lack of wind and attitude of the organisers at the Louis Vuitton Cup has finally got to several of the challengers, led by joint series leaders Luna Rosa Challenge. Also, South Africa’s Team Shosholoza’s heads accused the race favourites of influencing the organisers over whether they could race.
The South African Football Association (Safa) on Monday claimed a ”campaign of hate” was being waged in sections of the media against soccer’s national controlling organisation and some of its top officials — with little regard of how it would affect South African soccer or the hosting of the World Cup in 2010.
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The West Indies’ Bennett King became the latest international coach to quit on Monday as the revolving doors of cricket management gathered speed. King quit after the West Indies, who won the first two World Cups and reached the final in 1983, won just one Super Eights match and failed to qualify for the last four of the 2007 tournament.
A male tiger was being airlifted from China to South Africa on Tuesday in an effort to save the world’s rarest tiger breed from extinction. The four-and-a-half-year-old from Suzhou Zoo in far-eastern China is one of fewer than 100 remaining South China tigers and is to join a breeding programme in South Africa.
David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who chronicled the Washington press corps, the Vietnam War generation and baseball, was killed in a car crash, a coroner said. He was 73. His wife, Jean Halberstam, said she will remember him most for his "unending, bottomless generosity to young journalists".