Brian Whitaker wonders whether media stars such as David Frost and Rageh Omaar will give the world the truth it seeks.
Now a red-carpet TV host, former fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi is still breaking the rules, writes Emma Forrest.
Barbie and her waning group of followers are hoping to be entranced by the new rougher Ken. Robin Shulman reports
Bridget Baker’s quirky takes on life and art are refreshingly free of the PC and guilt-edged imagery produced by many of her peers, writes Hazel Friedman.
Peace talks between Somalia’s interim government and the Islamist militia in control of the capital and the southern regions of the country are due to begin in Sudan this weekend after an about-face by President Abdullahi Yusuf. Yusuf recently sent a delegation to the talks being held under the auspices of the Arab League.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is refusing to pay fees for his youngest son, Chatunga, insisting that the fees do not match the consumer price index. Recently, Minister of Education Aeneas Chigwedere wrote a letter to the privately run Hartman Primary School instructing it to cut this term’s school fees from about Z-million to Z-million.
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Jomo Sono has all but given up any ambitions of coaching Bafana Bafana when South Africa hosts the 2010 World Cup, claiming that Local Organising Committee chief executive Danny Jordaan wants a foreign coach at the helm. Sono was interviewed last month by the South African Football Association technical committee.
American Floyd Landis won the 17th stage of the Tour de France, a 200,5km ride from St Jean de Maurienne to Morzine on Thursday. Spaniard Oscar Pereiro Sio retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey. Spaniard Carlos Sastre finished second on the stage, five minutes and 42 seconds behind Landis. France’s Christophe Moreau took third, 5:58 off the pace.
A group of 51 mainly African undocumented immigrants who have been moored off Malta for five days will be taken in by several countries, reports said on Thursday. The migrants were rescued by a Spanish fishing vessel from a boat that was adrift and had run out of food.