California farmers are on a high after the liberal state moved to overturn part of a 70-year-old United States ban on growing and harvesting cannabis plants. But those hoping that the so-called Golden State is about to become a marijuana smokers’ paradise will be disappointed.
The late-night bars and jazz clubs are open in the French Quarter, as are the cafes in the elegant Garden District. One year after the worst natural disaster in United States history, New Orleans is gamely giving the impression that the good times are rolling again.
The pilot of an aeroplane that crashed after taking off from the wrong runway in Kentucky, killing 49, may have been confused by newly configured lights and paint markings, officials believe. The longer runway at Blue Grass airport, Lexington, was repaved last week and investigators are looking to see if that played a part in Sunday’s accident.
South Africa doesn’t have any plans "at the moment" to ease the continued burden of fuel increases on the South African public and any subsidy through the use of the country’s equalisation fund will quickly dry up, Minister of Minerals and Energy Buyelwa Sonjica told an MP on Tuesday.
Sheltering from the sun under a ragged awning in one of dozens of cramped refugee camps in Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged east, 18-year-old Sharmila Rahim dreams of being a teacher. But her village was wrecked, her house damaged and her school books burnt as the military and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels began a new chapter of a two-decade civil war earlier this month.
John Mark Karr, the schoolteacher who made worldwide headlines by confessing to one of the United States’s most notorious unsolved crimes, the murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, was abruptly cleared on Monday after the case against him collapsed.
Former South Africa captain Lucas Radebe plans to leave his homeland and return to England after failing to secure a job with the 2010 World Cup hosts. The defender, who captained his country at the 1998 and 2002 World Cup finals, said he was going back to the city of Leeds where he spent most of his playing career.
Watching a dead body being bathed in "holy" river water for a funeral may be an unusual thing to do for a guided tour, but that’s the point of an outing with Nigel Hankin. Almost everything about the "Nigel tour" of Delhi is far from the usual, right down to seeking an appointment — the 87-year-old Hankin does not have a telephone or internet connection.
The latest version of the Volvo C70 coupé comes with a retractable steel roof. What larks! At the touch of a button, the boot lid launches itself skywards and the roof rears up, splits into three segments and peels off towards the back of the car. At which point anyone familiar with that recent Citroën television advertising campaign may experience a momentary spike of panic, fearing that the car is about to transform into a robot — with you still wrapped in it.
Toyota Motors South Africa is fiercely protective of the reputation of its products and for years refused to introduce diesel-engined passenger cars to the local market because our diesel fuel contained an enormous amount of sulphur — up to 300 times the amount that is considered acceptable in Europe and the United States.