Police divers have recovered the body of a woman after the bakkie she and her husband were travelling in plunged into the Durban harbour on Wednesday night after an apparent hijacking. Paramedics said the 31-year-old woman had sustained about 12 stab wounds.
Yahoo! will consider refunding money to thousands of advertisers dating back to January 2004 and pay ,95-million in attorney fees to settle a class-action lawsuit
alleging the internet powerhouse has been profiting from bogus sales referrals generated through a sham known as ”click fraud.”
Myspace.com, the social networking website popular with millions of teenagers worldwide, has long been a magnet for adult predators who pose as children to meet young victims on the internet. Now, two Florida girls aged 13 and 14 have been charged with armed robbery after allegedly setting up a bogus profile of an attractive woman to snare lonely men.
Israel widened its assault on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday night by shelling the north of the territory and dropping leaflets warning residents of a pending attack by tanks and troops, as the government seized on a crisis over an abducted soldier to take on Palestinian armed groups.
As the <i>2006 Small-Arms Survey</i> was being circulated at the United Nations on Monday, Secretary General Kofi Annan accepted a photo petition from one million people worldwide calling for tougher controls over the global arms trade. The simultaneous circulation of the survey, by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies, and the Million Faces Petition was not a coincidence.
A report by Willie Hofmeyr, the Eliot Ness of the Highveld, has revealed that the paying of bribes is commonplace. Of the respondents polled, 73% had paid bribes to avoid paying for water and electricity; 72% for having telephones installed; 65% for customs avoidance; and 55% for getting a driver’s licence. Lemmer is impressed by his compatriots’ chutzpah.
From bras and baby suits equipped with monitors to tough suits to protect sportspeople and adventurers from the hazards of life on earth, space technology is boldly pushing back fashion frontiers. ”The space programme has over the years provided a catalyst for a lot of the progress we are seeing today in textiles,” says David Raitt, promotions officer with the European Space Agency.
Ghana crashed out of the World Cup in Germany in their maiden appearance much earlier than their vociferous football fans and citizens had wished.The 3-0 loss to mighty Brazil, the defending champions, in the second round on Tuesday ended their World Cup dreams and broke hundreds of thousands of hearts.
Civil right groups on Thursday hailed a Supreme Court decision on military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay as a major victory for the rule of law and a stern rebuke to United States President George Bush. ”This decision moves us one step closer to stopping the abuse of power that has become the hallmark of this White House,” said Anthony Romero.
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