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Pakistan’s cricket team on Sunday paid tribute to Bob Woolmer at an emotional memorial service as speculation continued over the precise manner of the coach’s death. The team joined 200 mourners at the Sacred Heart Cathedral in Lahore, the home of Pakistani cricket, in observing a minute’s silence and offering prayers for the ”shepherd”.
Bloemfontein Celtic pushed Amazulu deeper into the relegation zone when they beat them 1-0 in a PSL game played at Seisa Ramabodu Stadium on Sunday. Celtic striker Nthokozo Sikhakhane opened the scoring in the 39th minute when he beat Amazulu goalkeeper Tshepo Motshwening in the far right corner.
Iran stepped up its propaganda offensive against Britain on Sunday night by broadcasting new footage of two of the 15 captured service personnel on al-Alam television, including another ”confession” that they had strayed into Iranian waters. The two are each pictured in front of a map of what appears to be the Persian Gulf.
Toyota has extended its Quantum range by introducing a new 10-seater people carrier, and dollied up the existing models to fit in with new styling and specifications. Why a 10-seater when there’s already a very popular 14-seater in the line-up? That’s a matter of convenience.
As the plane descended through tropical sky, and Caribbean surf gave way to Kingston’s rooftops, lumps formed in the passengers’ throats. After years or even decades away, they were back in Jamaica, the land of their birth. But if there were tears as the plane landed at Norman Manley airport, they were not of joy.
Zimbabwe’s influential Roman Catholic bishops have abandoned a long-standing reticence to criticise Robert Mugabe, damning his government as "racist, corrupt and lawless" and likening the struggle against it to the country’s liberation war against white rule.
It’s hard to imagine extreme cold, sub-zero temperatures, howling winds and a woarld cloaked in snow and ice when you’re sitting in 30°C-plus by a sparkling swimming pool bathed in South Africa’s trademark sunshine. But for an elite group of South African scientists ice is nice, and, more to the point, it is home.
We have been warned about pirated CDs and DVDs, but now — shock! horror! — watch out for illegal toilet paper. It may sound ridiculous, but it’s true. You might be buying illegal toilet paper, even though you don’t know it. The South African Tissue Manufacturers’ Association (Satma) has announced that illegal toilet paper exists, and has been around for some time already.
African elephants are the most studied big mammal species in Africa. But in spite of all we know about them, there is still a lot that we don’t know. A project being conducted by the Wildlife Environmental Physiology team at the University of the Witwatersrand’s school of physiology is exploring how the elephant’s body functions in the heat of the savannah.
Making science popular to the masses has always had its problems. The image of the geek — an overly studious science boffin with no fashion sense or friends — has not exactly helped. Thankfully, the dawn of the digital age has changed the way the public regards science and technology.