The British now spend more time on the internet than watching television, according to a survey published on Wednesday by internet search engine Google. The report showed that British internet users spend an average of 164 minutes online daily compared with 148 minutes watching television.
The JSE was weaker in noon trade on Friday following a negative close on Wall Street overnight. Lower precious metals prices further weighed on the local bourse. By 11.58am, the all share index shed 0,24%. Resources retreated 1%, the gold mining index tumbled 2,44% and the platinum mining index lost 0,72%.
Liverpool’s lack of goals is becoming an old story, writes Daniel Taylor. A few weeks ago, at Liverpool’s annual general meeting, the first proposal from the floor was that the club should ”retire” the No 12 shirt in honour of the Kop and its reputation as ”the team’s 12th man”.
Real Madrid’s Florentino Pérez may be gone, but the dressing-room divisions and disharmony at the club remain. So, having been through four directors of football, six coaches and 20 players in just three years, Pérez finally sacked the man really responsible for Real Madrid’s crisis: himself.
A vehicle carrying a wedding party hit a landmine in Pakistan’s restive south-western province of Baluchistan on Friday, killing 26 people and injuring seven, provincial officials said. The blast ripped through a trailer being pulled by a tractor on a remote mountain trail near the town of Rakhni, about 300km east of Quetta.
Amid dark talk of foreign infiltration in Kandahar after a merciless run of suicide bombings, another, more benign, influence has already breached the city defences: the café latte. In a dusty square clogged with wheezing rickshaws and turbaned men, Kandahar’s first coffee shop has opened.
The United Nations launched an emergency response fund on Thursday for natural and man-made disasters to try to establish a permanent pool of -million that can be quickly channelled to emergencies as they happen. Britain has taken a lead in the initiative by providing -million.
Israel’s acting Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has said the country will draw its final borders within four years without consulting the Palestinians if Hamas does not recognise the Jewish state. Olmert, said that by 2010 he intended to ”get to Israel’s permanent borders, whereby we will completely separate from the majority of the Palestinian population and preserve a large and stable Jewish majority in Israel”.
About 2 000 people have lost their homes in floods that have hit central Malawi after storms in the south, a government official said on Thursday. The latest flooding came just a few days after heavy rains in the south left 6 000 homeless, destroyed crops and washed away bridges and roads.
Nine wanted criminals were among 150 people arrested in a police operation in nightclubs and taverns in Johannesburg’s Hillbrow district on Thursday night, police said. Spokesperson Inspector Kriban Naidoo said the nine were wanted for crimes such as robbery, fraud and forgery.