Powerful bombs ripped through three crowded restaurants on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Saturday, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 100 — the second time terrorists have brought carnage to the tropical paradise in three years. Witnesses reported seeing dismembered bodies at the scene, many of them foreigners.
Anonymous and clueless I have noticed with growing amusement the correlation between poorly argued, imprecise writing and the fanatically religious inclination of the writer. The pattern emerges in writing of various kinds, from letters in the Mail & Guardian to speeches written for public figures. The more dogmatic a writer is on the subject of […]
Diamonds are forever, but cellphones are not designed to last quite so long. Unless you are a lucky recipient of a jewel-encrusted cellphone this Christmas, that is. Vertu, a subsidiary of Nokia, is producing 200 cellphones decorated with diamonds. The most expensive of the range are believed to be the first mobile handsets to cost in the region of R580 000.
Play the facts, not the man I was astounded by the anti–democratic stand taken against Jacob Zuma in your editorial “Be afraid, be very afraid” (October 14). Your assertion that Zuma’s actions offer a clear snapshot of what his presidency would be like is totally misplaced. He is on the back foot in a case […]
Hundreds of people rallied in a third day of demonstrations across Indonesia on Saturday to protest a government decision to more than double fuel prices to keep an economic crisis at bay. Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets in more than 10 cities in the islands of Java, Lombok and Sulawesi on Saturday.
A California judge has sided with Google in an age-discrimination lawsuit filed by a former manager who alleged the online search-engine leader had fired him because he didn’t fit in with the company’s youthful culture. Brian Reid had been 54 when he filed the suit more than 14 months ago.
West African leaders brought a summit on the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire to an end Friday but warned that they would not immediately make public their decision on how to avert a looming political crisis in the bitterly divided country. Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo’s mandate expires on October 30.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi said on Friday that his country seeks ”friendship” with the United States and that the time for confrontation with the superpower has passed, according to comments aired on official television. ”America equally needs us and its oil companies can now work in Libya,” Gadaffi said.
When it comes to problems piling up for Bafana Bafana, the old dictum that ”it never rains, but it pours” would not be inappropriate. On Friday, not long after the squad was named for the African Nations Cup qualifying game against the Democratic Republic in Congo, both Bradley Carnell and Dillon Sheppard withdrew from the squad.
The Blue Bulls secured their place in the semifinals of this year’s Currie Cup competition with a flawless 59-0 victory over Griqualand West at Loftus Versfeld on Friday night. The defending Currie Cup champions were ruthless in their execution and demolished a Griqua pack that almost upset the Lions a week ago in Kimberley.