Lleyton Hewitt and Anastasia Myskina, two players with plenty to prove at the French Open, moved into the third round on Thursday. Hewitt, the former world number one, overcame a difficult first set before seeing off French wildcard Mathieu Montcourt 7-5, 6-3, 6-3 and now faces Slovakian 22nd seed Dominik Hrbaty for a place in the last 16.
Uganda is among six African countries that have met the 2001 United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/Aids and reduced HIV prevalence among young people by 25%, according to the 2006 report on the global Aids epidemic by the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/Aids.
A miner who was trapped almost 3km underground in Gold Fields’ Kloof mine near Westonaria on the West Rand was rescued on Thursday. Company spokesperson Willie Jacobsz said the man was brought to the surface just after 1.30pm. ”We have had very good news,” Jacobsz said.
Zimbabwe’s state-run power company Zesa Holdings has warned of more electricity blackouts over a forex crunch, which is hampering the overhaul of damaged generation and distribution equipment, as the country’s economy teeters on the brink of meltdown.
If you don’t, you probably know somebody who does. With Britain stuffed full of more cellphones than people, connected members of the public are developing an increasing number of ways to fret about their handsets. The result, say experts, is the telecommunications equivalent of phantom limb syndrome, where amputees still feel the sensations of a limb that isn’t there any more.
A journalist with Burundi’s state-run news agency known for his critical reports about the government has been jailed for allegedly inciting rebellion, an official said on Thursday. Aloys Kabura, a reporter with Agence Burundaise de Presse, was detained on Wednesday and is being held at a prison in the northern town of Ngozi.
The moving train wreck that is Windows Vista finally began to approach its destination last week with the release of another major test version: beta 2. This should mean it is ”feature complete”, with only bug fixes, performance tuning and a final polish before it reaches businesses at the end of this year, and consumers at the start of next year.
Thousands of Eastern Cape children are going hungry after the province’s new school feeding scheme collapsed before it got off the ground, Dispatch Online reported on Thursday. Problems apparently arose after the previous suppliers for the feeding scheme, including two major bakery groups, were dumped.
A German court jailed a woman for 15 years on Thursday for killing eight of her newborn babies in the worst case of infanticide in the country’s criminal history. The court, in Frankfurt an der Oder on the Polish border, convicted Sabine Hilschenz, a 40-year-old woman who has borne a total of 13 children, of eight counts of manslaughter.
South Africa’s most popular pick-up line is ”Here’s R5. Go and phone your parents and tell them you won’t be home tonight”, according to dating website YesnomayB.com. The results of an online survey of about 2Â 000 South Africans also said that one in three people would dump their partner for a date with a celebrity.