Israeli warplanes pounded Lebanon and soldiers clashed with Hezbollah guerrillas along the border on Thursday as United States marines landed near Beirut to rescue 1Â 200 Americans trapped by the fighting. Frightened civilians in Lebanon feared the bombing would get worse once the evacuation of thousands of foreign nationals is completed.
A chemistry professor was bludgeoned on the head while working in his University of Cape Town (UCT) office on Wednesday afternoon, media reports said. The attack was the second in as many years on the campus. In January last year, mathematics professor Brian Hahn was assaulted with an umbrella and kicked in the face.
A maverick fertility expert has revealed hard evidence of a controversial attempt to produce the world’s first cloned human baby. Panos Zavos, a reproductive scientist, created a storm in 2004 when he called a press conference in London to announce he had cloned a human embryo from the skin cells of an infertile man and transferred it to the uterus of the man’s wife.
The call comes over the radio just a few minutes after Officer Kristina Cappello’s patrol car has crested the National Mall, the white dome of the Capitol gleaming in the darkness as she turns the wheel towards the less touristy streets of Washington DC. A fellow officer needs backup at the scene of an assault.
Company earnings on the local market are very strong at the moment, but probably have already reached their peak in percentage gains terms. The local banking shares are a prime example. These shares may fall further in the short term, but they truly represent absolute value at the current level.
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Papers in an application for a postponement of the corruption trial of Jacob Zuma and the French arms dealer Thint have been lodged in the Durban High Court. The defence teams of Thint and the former deputy president have indicated that they would oppose any postponement of the trial.
In all the excitement and panic of preparing for the 2010 World Cup, Lemmer hopes a little paragraph in Fifa’s 2004 report doesn’t go unnoticed by South Africa’s transport engineers. According to the report that helped sway the voting, the country’s ”urban train network (subway and over ground) is also well frequented and popular in some cities”. Subways? Right, manne, start digging.
It has millions of people glued to their television sets, voting in the most authoritarian societies of the Arab world, yet it has nothing to do with politics, Rory McCarthy reports.
A Port Elizabeth company has taken the Coega Development Corporation to court after losing a R91-million tender allegedly because it had no black partners. Media reports said on Friday that Scribante Construction’s tender for a infrastructure contract was R8-million cheaper than the one that had been awarded.
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