Typhoon Chanchu churned its way towards Hong Kong and Southern China on Wednesday, causing the cancellation of some flights and ferry services as the region battened down to prepare for the storm. The typhoon, which killed 41 people when it tore through the Philippines, is the strongest on record to enter the South China Sea in May.
<i>Rolling Stone</i>, the American music and pop culture magazine, is celebrating a milestone this month with the release of its 1Â 000th issue. For 39 years, the magazine has straddled the divide between countercultural and conventional journalism, with covers that have depicted and even created modern-day icons.
A 25cm fossil meteorite has been discovered in the 145-million-year-old Morokweng crater, about 766m beneath the Kalahari Desert in the north-west province of South Africa, the University of the Witwatersrand announced on Wednesday.
Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) of Azania president Motsoko Pheko made a qualified apology on Tuesday for comments the Human Rights Commission condemned as anti-gay. The South African Broadcasting Corporation quoted Pheko as saying the PAC did not care if it failed to get votes from gays and lesbians as they faced extinction and could not bear children.
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A strong earthquake measuring 6,8 on the Richter scale struck near Indonesia’s Nias Island late on Tuesday, seismologists said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The underwater quake hit at 10.28pm local time at a depth of 1,9km, some 270km south-west of Sibolga on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the United States Geological Survey said.
Tests have cleared a London hotel restaurant, which Tottenham blamed for a suspected outbreak of food poisoning that affected 10 of its players before a crucial defeat. Health officials said on Tuesday that a virus was the likely cause of the illness that occurred on the eve of Tottenham’s 2-1 loss to West Ham on May 7, the final day of the Premier League season.
Richard Hatch, who won -million in the debut season of the United States reality television programme Survivor, was sentenced on Tuesday to four years and three months in prison for failing to pay income taxes on his reality TV prize and other earnings.
At least one person was killed and another wounded on Tuesday when suspected Islamic gunmen attacked a compound held by a United States-backed warlord alliance outside the lawless Somali capital, Mogadishu, witnesses said. ”It was difficult to know the identity of the attacker or attackers,” a commander in the compound told Agence France-Presse on condition of anonymity.
Jackie Botten, former South African, North Eastern Transvaal and Northern Transvaal pace bowler, died on Sunday following complications after colon operations at the age of 77. A product of Pretoria High School for Boys, Botten played for Northerns during the period 1957/1958 through to the 1971/1972.