No image available
/ 31 October 2005
Two sisters from Napasha Village in southern Malawi wake up before the sun rises and start walking to the maize fields a few kilometres away. Along the way they stop to eat a slice of bread with the anti-retroviral medicine given them by the Malawian government.
No image available
/ 31 October 2005
Thailand has confirmed a new case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu among chickens in a northeastern province, amid rising fears over the virus following the kingdom’s 13th fatality, officials said on Monday. The Avian Influenza Control Operating Centre in Bangkok said it confirmed the virus last week in one district in the northeastern province of Kalasin, about 500km northeast of Bangkok.
No image available
/ 31 October 2005
It’s well known that smoking cannabis makes you hungry. What wasn’t so well known is why this is so. In a breakthrough that may help in stimulating the appetite of anorexics, or blunting the hunger pains of dieters, Australian researchers have found the receptors in the brain that make marijuana users ravenous.
No image available
/ 31 October 2005
A new law will allow telephones to be tapped and e-mails to be intercepted in the fight against crime, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development said on Sunday. A spokesperson said while the Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act allows for the lawful interception of communications, this can only be done after authorisation by a judge.
No image available
/ 31 October 2005
Victims of El Salvador’s bloody civil war are prepared to tell a federal jury about the torture they endured and deaths they witnessed more than two decades ago. Nicolas Carranza, a former Salvadoran army colonel who has lived a quiet life in Memphis since 1985, was set to go on trial on Monday in a US District Court.
No image available
/ 31 October 2005
Two opposition parties called on Sunday for a judicial commission of inquiry into allegations by the United Nations that South African companies were involved in Iraq’s oil-for-food corruption scandal. The leader of the Democratic Alliance, Tony Leon, said in a statement that South Africans had to learn the truth about the scandal.
No image available
/ 31 October 2005
Okay. I had promised myself that I would not get embroiled in any Brett Kebble conspiracy stories. Fact is, it’s hard not to. First off is the muted manner in which his gruesome demise has been treated by both the eminent and the rank and file of our brave new society.
No image available
/ 31 October 2005
London is the most expensive major European city, with the French capital Paris coming in second, according to the results of a new study published on Monday. A standard basket of 250 goods and services bought in London cost 5,3% more than the average throughout the 12 countries which use the common euro currency, according to the Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein report.
No image available
/ 31 October 2005
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates on Sunday night gave -million to the fight against malaria, branding the rich world’s efforts in tackling the disease ”a disgrace”. The grant is equivalent to more than three-quarters of global spending on research into the disease last year, according to a report published simultaneously by the Malaria Research and Development Alliance.
No image available
/ 31 October 2005
There has been a strange sense of anti-climax to the changing of the guard at the United States Federal Reserve, announced out of the blue last week. There was none of the worldwide outpouring of grief, for example, that accompanied the death of Pope John Paul II earlier this year.