A storm in the Bay of Bengal sank seven fishing boats and at least 60 Bangladeshi fishermen were missing, police said on Sunday. The storm on Saturday also triggered a metre-high water surge, washing away some houses and shops on the island of Saint Martin, about 500km south-east of the capital Dhaka.
Whatever else you can say about maverick motorcycle millionaire Simon Fourie, he’s never boring. As a penniless law student and apprentice public prosecutor in Durban back in the 1970s, he moonlighted as a taxi-driver to fund his expensive motor-cycle racing addiction. He soon discovered that most of his clientele were sailors who wanted to be taken first to a bottle store, then to a brothel.
While I was watching <i>The Fast and the Furious, Tokyo Drift</i>, I wondered why anyone would go through the tedious process of making such a dreadfully weak movie that is essentially an excuse to show off the growing worldwide phenomenon of drifting. Why not just make a documentary and save the money you would have spent on actors, asks Sukasha Singh.
I’ve always been fascinated by rally drivers simply because it must take nerves of steel to be able to push those souped-up cars to the limit on often slippery dirt roads, knowing that the slightest miscalculation could result — as it often does — in costly accidents. It’s not something I’ve ever wanted to try because I’m more at home on a properly tarred racetrack, writes Sukasha Singh.
The debate is officially over. With 147kW of power on tap, Kawasaki’s ZX-14 is the most powerful production motorcycle in the world, and its 0 to 100kph acceleration time of 2,5 seconds makes it the world’s fastest accelerating production machine, on two wheels, or four.
Kazakhstan-born Oleg Maskaev stopped Hasim Rahman in the final minute of the 12th and final round on Saturday to seize the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title. The triumph for the 37-year-old former Russian Army lieutenant, who became a United States citizen two years ago, left no American-born fighter atop the heavyweight division among the major sanctioning bodies.
Twenty people, including eight Ethiopians, were arrested after Johannesburg police foiled robberies at warehouses in Fordsburg and Sandton, recovering stolen goods valued at about R10-million. Johannesburg police spokesperson Superintendent Chris Wilken said the men were arrested on Friday night and early Saturday morning after a police stake-out at the two warehouses.
Mayon volcano in the Philippines could soon unleash a huge cloud of deadly gases and ash, experts warned on Sunday, as 40Â 000 people prepared for a second week in crowded evacuation centres. Four powerful ash explosions rocked the spectacular 2Â 460m peak on Saturday, covering nearby communities to the north-west with a light layer of dust.
Cubans wished Fidel Castro a happy 80th birthday on Sunday even though the ailing leader has not been seen or heard in public since ceding power to his brother two weeks ago after stomach surgery. ”Fidel, Fidel, long live Fidel,” chanted young Cubans at a birthday concert on Havana’s Malecon seafront boulevard where 3 000 gathered.
An unbeaten partnership of 74 between debutant Forhad Reza and Mohammad Ashraful steered Bangladesh to an emphatic six-wicket win over Kenya in the first one-day international at the Gymkhana club in Nairobi on Saturday. Reza, who ended the match with an unbeaten 34 proved the perfect foil for the experienced right-hander Ashraful as they steadied the Bangladesh innings after a shaky start.