Iraq suffered one of its bloodiest days of violence on Sunday after attackers struck two markets in a Shia area of Baghdad, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 200. The killers struck with three car bombs and four mortars, causing pandemonium in Sadr City.
Zimbabwean police are still searching for former opposition MP Roy Bennett after last week’s discovery of an arms cache in Mutare, Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Monday. Its website quoted senior police officer Ronald Muderedzi as saying various teams had been dispatched into Manicaland province to look for Bennett.
Drug companies are still not making life-saving drugs available to millions of people with HIV/Aids in the developing world, according to the Médécins Sans Frontières. Basic three-drug cocktails in a single pill are being slowly rolled out to some who need them, but doctors fear many of those people will die within a few years if they cannot get hold of alternative drugs.
Andre Agassi wants to keep Swedish legend Bjorn Borg’s five Wimbledon trophies out of the hands of a faceless collector, and he’s willing to pay to do it. ”I just don’t think you should have one unless you win it,” said Agassi, who won the first of his eight Grand Slam titles at Wimbledon in 1992.
McDonald’s iconic ”golden arches” are being trumped by the blue and white of Israel’s flag after the hamburger chain bowed to pressure from Tel Aviv’s chief rabbi to distinguish its kosher restaurants and save religious Jews from accidentally chomping on a cheeseburger.
The death of Slobodan Milosevic was shrouded in mystery and deepening controversy on Sunday night as Dutch pathologists examined his corpse and it emerged that he had claimed he was being slowly killed by doctors. On Sunday night a preliminary post-mortem report said that he had died of heart failure. His remains were to be released to his family on Monday.
The trucking industry is being allowed to ride roughshod over the South African motorist. Truckers pay more in toll fees, but very low amounts considering they are responsible for 10 000 times the damage to roads. Toll fees for heavy-duty trucks travelling on the N3 between Jo’burg and Durban add up R408. Motorists travelling in light passenger cars pay R110 for the same trip.
One of the more eyebrow-raising, intriguing executive moves of recent times has been that of Peter Moyo, who last November gave up his position as deputy MD of Old Mutual South Africa to become Alexander Forbes’s Africa MD, in charge of 14 countries. The move was intriguing because many saw it as Moyo turning his back on an opportunity to head OM, a brand-name monolith.
First National Bank (FNB), the country’s largest vehicle and one of the four largest retail banks, is being sued for R145-million over one of banking’s most innovative products. Leon Parkin, a Rustenburg-based businessman, claims that FNB stole his idea for InContact, a free SMS service that informs cheque account, credit and debit card customers of all transactions as they happen.
In a corner of Joubert Park in Johannesburg’s inner city, a secret garden is blossoming. "GreenHouse’s vision is to become a demonstration of green living," says Dorah Lebelo, the executive director of the GreenHouse People’s Environmental Centre, an inner city environmental resource centre.