Two men pleaded guilty to federal charges of secretly videotaping Michael Jackson more than two years ago as he flew to Santa Barbara, California, with his attorney to surrender in a child-molestation investigation. Jeffrey Borer and Arvel Jett Reeves admitted on Monday they installed two digital videorecorders to record ”a professional entertainer” and his lawyer.
Wallaby star Mat Rogers will make his first Super 14 start at flyhalf this weekend when the New South Wales Waratahs face off against South Africa’s Golden Cats in Sydney, the team announced on Tuesday. Rogers missed the opening three Super 14 rounds following the suicide of his father and former rugby league great Steve Rogers in January.
A confidant of former President Nelson Mandela and former Robben Island inmate said on Monday he had cancelled a planned trip to Canada because Canadian rules require even former political prisoners of apartheid to get a police clearance for a visa.
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After describing in detail her alleged rape by Jacob Zuma, the complainant told the Johannesburg High Court on Monday that she had been offered compensation if she dropped the charge. She was also asked if she realised the effect the allegation would have on the African National Congress, and told to deny the charge to two newspaper reporters.
Researchers in Berlin have come a step closer to developing a device that will enable people to write and manipulate objects by reading their mind. The so-called mental typewriter that translates thoughts into cursor movements on a computer screen will be on display at the computer technology fair CeBIT, which opens in the German city of Hanover on March 9.
A new computer model suggests that the next solar cycle will be more active than the previous one, potentially spawning magnetic storms that will be more severe and disruptive to communication systems. The next sunspot cycle will be between 30% to 50% more intense than the last one, scientists said on Monday.
Ian Whyte watched in awe as a hungry elephant stripped the bark off three marula trees in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, hammering at nature with all its might. ”Within a few minutes, that bull killed three trees, and in just one feeding session,” recalled Whyte, a research manager and elephant specialist who has worked in the park for 36 years.
The world economy is set to bounce back strongly from its weakness at the end of last year, the west’s leading thinktank said on Monday, but the European Central Bank should hold off raising interest rates again until there are concrete signs the recovery in the eurozone is well established.
The studio behind Crash, the surprise best picture winner at Sunday night’s Oscar ceremony, spent a total of -million promoting the film ahead of the ceremony with a targeted campaign to woo academy members. The film itself only cost ,5-million to make.
A lot happened during the time the so-called Muslim faithful set about their holy task of riot, pillage and arson over the notoriously unfunny caricatures of Islam’s last prophet. The shackled, manacled and hooded Muslim detainees on hunger strike against their indefinite detention at Camp X-Ray were being nourished with tubes shoved down their throats.