<i>The Financial Times</i> newspaper said on Wednesday it was to slash up to 50 jobs as it tried to restructure its editorial operations. The British business daily is seeking to integrate better its editing, reporting and production for the <i>FT</i>’s print and online operations.
A Silicon Valley judge is being asked to stop an aviation designer from gabbing about a plan by high-flying Google’s founders to convert a wide-body passenger jet into a globe-ranging party plane. Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Joseph Huber scheduled an August 7 hearing to resolve the dispute.
Indian police used sniffer dogs and picked through the wreckage for clues on Wednesday after a series of bombs blew apart trains and killed 190 people in the financial capital, Mumbai. The teeming city, symbol of the growing economic power of the world’s largest democracy, was trying to get back to normal a day after the seven apparently coordinated blasts, which also left hundreds wounded.
The Magic Numbers may not yet reek of rock’n’roll excess, but their journey along pop’s perfumed highway grows ever more intoxicating. Paul Moody finds out how the Numbers put a smile on Britain’s face.
<i>Two for the Price of One</i> lends the post-modern theme of a detached society a subtle and assessable air by setting it in a supermarket — the epitome of our banal meaningless existence, writes Kate Stegeman.
Matthew Krouse speaks to Robert Colman about playing 1930s murderess Daisy de Melker, in drag.
Known for his defiant freestyles, boyish charms and musical flow, Pro Kid speaks to Kwanele Sosibo about ‘coming up in the game’ and why he can’t give up the mic.
One of the many thrilling items on this year’s Arts Alive programme in Johannesburg is Freedom to Dance, a huge party that brings together house, hip-hop and kwaito, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
You don’t have to be gay to enjoy the Heartland, a clubbing zone in the heart of Jo’burg but it helps, writes Riaan Wolmarans.
After the recent sell-off in interest rate-sensitive shares on the JSE, the share prices of retailers and, to a lesser extent, banks, now represent good value on a forward earnings basis. In the past month, the equity market sell-off has hit these sectors particularly hard, with some stocks more than 20% off previous highs.