Another United States National Football League team owner — and American billionaire — is set to take over an English soccer club. Randy Lerner, who owns the Cleveland Browns, put in a £62,6-million bid on Monday to buy Aston Villa, one of the oldest clubs in English soccer.
A Japanese tanker spilled about 5,3-million litres of crude oil in the eastern Indian Ocean near the Nicobar islands following a collision with a cargo ship, the tanker’s operator announced on Tuesday. Japan’s Kyodo news service said the spill may have been the largest to date involving a Japanese tanker.
Houston, we have a problem. The Apollo 11 moon landings were one of the defining moments of the 20th century. But now the original recordings of those moments have been mislaid. The poor-quality images broadcast on television at the time were video recordings of the original film.
North Rand police on Monday arrested a man after they found human organs in a bag he was carrying at a taxi rank in Etwatwa, Benoni. ”Police officers from the Etwatwa police station … confronted a man at a taxi rank carrying a black bag,” a police spokesperson said. ”Inside they found human lungs, intestines … a brain.”
An administrator is set to take control of the troubled Durban University of Technology on Wednesday, the national Department of Education said in a statement. The current dean of the faculty of education of the University of Pretoria, Professor Jonathan Jansen, will be the administrator for the next six months.
There are 12-million children in sub-Saharan Africa who have lost one or both parents to Aids, and this number could grow to more than 16-million by 2010, according to a report released in Toronto, Canada, on Monday. An estimated 380Â 000 children under 15 died of Aids-related causes in 2005.
Studies showing that people in the poorest African villages take their medicines at a ”stunningly” high percentage are evidence that the poor ”will live if you give them the tools to live”, former United States president Bill Clinton said in Toronto on Monday. Clinton and Microsoft head Bill Gates discussed Aids issues at the International Aids Conference.
United States beverages giant PepsiCo on Monday named company high-flier Indra Nooyi as its new boss, capping a rapid rise to the highest ranks of corporate America for the Indian-born woman. Nooyi will join an exclusive list of women CEOs heading top US companies.
The Democratic Alliance’s (DA) KwaZulu-Natal leader, Roger Burrows, will step down when the party holds its provincial congress on Saturday. ”I decided to step down to let a new party leader take over as we head towards 2009,” said Burrows on Monday night.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert tried to repair his frayed standing as a war leader on Monday by claiming his troops had inflicted lasting damage on Hezbollah and would continue to pursue the militia’s leaders, despite a United Nations ceasefire. Meanwhile, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah claimed a ”strategic and historic victory”.