Playboy, the United States-based adult publisher and broadcaster, is considering using Britain as a testing ground for moving into the gay market for the first time, The Times newspaper said on Monday. Playboy wants to launch a new gay brand to boost revenues, the daily said.
Sudanese authorities have refused to extend the mandate of the Norwegian non-governmental organisation Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), which heads the main refugee camp in Darfur, sheltering some 100 000 people, the organisation announced on Monday.
The South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) on Monday called for a pay agreement that ended a security-guard strike by 14 other unions to be undone. Satawu distanced itself from the settlement reached on Sunday, saying it would continue its strike from Monday morning.
Pace bowler Mohammad Asif took his maiden five-wicket haul in Test cricket for Pakistan on Monday to restrict Sri Lanka to 267-8 wickets in their first innings at stumps on the first day of the second Test. After skipper Inzamam ul-Haq elected to bowl first after winning the toss, Asif bowled with accuracy, moving the ball both ways on a seaming pitch.
Ever wondered what other people look up on the internet? Search engine Google keeps track of the top queries entered around the world with Google Zeitgeist. According to the California-based company, Zeitgeist is supposed to reveal a little about the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of the era we find ourselves in today. The word "zeitgeist" comes from the German language, "zeit" meaning time and "geist" meaning spirit.
Yuvraj Singh’s smashing century led India to a 49-run victory on Monday in the third limited-overs international against England, giving the home team a 3-0 lead in the seven-match series. Singh’s blazing 103, his seventh one-day century, helped India post 294-6 in 50 overs. In reply, England were bowled out for 245 in 48.5 overs, despite a defiant 93 by Paul Collingwood.
Faded pop superstar Michael Jackson was on Friday crowned as the United States’s most foolish person in 2006, narrowly beating out trigger-happy US Vice-President Dick Cheney for the title. The 47-year-old "King of Pop" snatched the dishonour for the fourth year running.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma does not think he placed his rape accuser at risk of HIV/Aids or any other sexually transmitted disease by not using a condom, the Johannesburg High Court heard on Monday. Zuma is accused of raping a family friend at his Johannesburg home in November last year and he spent the morning explaining that the two had sex after he massaged her.
The famous Winchester rifle glorified in American Westerns may have fired its last shot as a plant where it had been manufactured since 1866 closed its doors last week. One hundred eighty-six employees of the United States Repeating Arms Company plant located in New Haven, Connecticut, were thanked for their work on Friday, two days after the facility stopped all manufacturing activity.
Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo dropped his clearest hint yet that he hopes to stay on if Parliament approves a contested proposition to change term limits, he said in an interview published on Monday. ”The reforms that we are putting in place have to be anchored, anchored in legislation, anchored in institutions,” Obasanjo told the United States newspaper, Washington Post.