Nigerian rescuers battled with shovels and picks to save people trapped for a second day beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in Lagos on Thursday as the Red Cross said the death toll stands at 24. Hopes were fading that anyone could survive another night trapped in the debris as rains fell on the area and shortages of equipment hampered diggers.
Marat Safin crashed out of the ATP Indianapolis Open in spectacular style on Wednesday, falling in straight sets to world number 512 Wesley Whitehouse of South Africa. Safin, the two-time Grand Slam champion from Russia, held his head in his hands as he tried to explain what when wrong in a 6-1, 6-4, second-round loss to the 27-year-old journeyman.
United States authorities are raising the stakes against internet gambling with their biggest prosecution effort to date, but backers of online wagering are not yet ready to fold. An indictment unsealed on Monday charges the operators, British-incorporated BetOnSports, with illegally taking bets from US residents and failing to pay US taxes on $3,3-billion in wagers from the United States.
Three Randburg teenage girls and a boy are being questioned by animal anti-cruelty authorities after they allegedly tormented a mouse with a lit cigarette before spraying it with an aerosol can and setting it on fire. The group was caught out after a video recorded on a cellphone landed at the offices of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in Randburg.
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.