The digital age has brought the music listener and musician closer together, giving both power in a world traditionally controlled by fat cat music industry executives. No longer is it ”we produce, you consume”; now listeners are networking via the Internet and the industry is paying attention.
From the quiet of a high-security lab, away from the furore about human ethics and religious castigation, some of the world’s cloning experts have come together on a groundbreaking project. Working to order, the scientists receive shipments of tissue from around the world, grow them and freeze them in liquid nitrogen, leaving the cells in suspended animation until word comes to revive them and create clones.
With the World Cup only weeks away, one of Wall Street’s leading financial houses recently switched its attention from gold, shares and the dollar to which emerging economy has the best chance of lifting the trophy in Berlin on July 9. The Goldman Sachs World Cup and Economics 2006 survey suggests there is a limit to how much overlap there is between the beautiful game and the murky world of finance.
Close political allies of African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma are preparing to relaunch his presidential campaigns in a series of tripartite alliance forums in the next few months. These campaigns include pressing for his reinstatement as South Africa’s deputy president if he is cleared of the corruption charges, or the charges are thrown out on an application planned by his defence.
In The Da Vinci Code, the Holy Grail is neither an object nor an objective. It symbolises an earthshaking secret: Mary Magdalene bore a child with Jesus. The mega-selling book — the film version of which opens next week — is fiction. But, as far as Grail legends go, it’s in good company. The only undeniable truth about the Grail is that there’s no shortage of tales about it.
Ahmed Ayad was unfortunate to fall sick under what Israel and its allies in the West are defining as the ”ministries of terror”. The 42-year-old Palestinian father of five began kidney dialysis at a hospital in Gaza City six weeks ago at just about the time Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip and international sanctions against the Hamas government began to bite in the Health Ministry.
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Marcus Trescothick eased himself back into international cricket with an unbeaten 95 as England coasted through the second session of the first day of the first Test against Sri Lanka at Lord’s on Thursday without losing a wicket. At tea, England were 199-1 with Alastair Cook, in his first Test in England, 44 not out in the opening encounter of a three-match series.
The bodies of seven Russian and Ukrainian climbers have been found on Mount Elbrus, Europe’s highest peak, and a search continues for four other missing alpinists, officials said on Thursday. ”We have found the bodies of seven climbers,” said a Russian Emergency Situations Ministry spokesperson. ”The search is continuing to find the other four.”
Bafana Bafana interim coach Pitso Mosimane has named no less than six players from the champions-in-waiting, Mamelodi Sundowns, in the national team for the forthcoming Cosafa Cup in Gaborone, Botswana. Four of the players, defender Benson Mhlongo, and midfielders Josta Dladla, Surprise Moriri and defender Vuyo Mere are new to the squad.