Binyamin Netanyahu launched a bid to unseat the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, on Tuesday in a challenge that threatens to split the ruling party and cause a radical realignment of Israeli politics. Netanyahu said he will seek the leadership of the ruling Likud party ahead of a general election next year.
First there was the iPod, then the mini-iPod, and after that the iPod on which you can store your photographs. Now its relentless march is to continue with the iPod cellphone. According to reports in New York, Apple, the company behind the phenomenally successful digital music player, will next week launch a music-playing cellphone in conjunction with Motorola.
Seven people, including four children, died on Monday night when flames swept through a rundown building squatted by African families. It was the second unexplained blaze in three days to hit a block housing immigrants in Paris, prompting fears of deliberate attacks.
Seven-year-old Borik Rubayev has the full tan and puppy fat of Beslan’s surviving children, sugared into forgetting after a year in which money has poured into their town from a contrite government and sympathetic world. He tears around his aunt’s flat, fixing a sniper stand and laser sights to his expensive new toy, a replica of the gun Russian special forces used in the botched rescue attempt.
It is every student’s worst nightmare. Having finally escaped from home, moved into student digs and thrown up at freshers’ fair, the last thing you need is your mum and dad strolling on to campus. But in the German city of Münster hundreds of parents have been invited to descend on the university and check up on what their sons and daughters are doing.
Hundreds of people were feared to have died in Hurricane Katrina as more bodies washed up in United States Gulf coast cities on Tuesday in the aftermath one of the worst natural disasters the US has faced in decades. In New Orleans, those who survived the initial impact of the hurricane faced new dangers on Wednesday as its dykes gave way under the pressure of the storm surge.
What the world needs now is not another love song, but more consumption by Asia. That is one of many lessons one gleans from listening to Professor Brian Kantor, head of investment strategy at Investec Securities, whose lecture sounds like the musings of a maverick and a maestro rolled into one.
A new organisation called X-heid has been launched at the University of the Witwatersrand to initiate dialogue about transformation. But it has already stirred controversy on campus, with "offensive" X-heid posters having being pulled. One poster depicted a man urinating and was captioned "release it, speak out".
With preferred tender-bidders identified and enrolment set to begin in January next year, will the roll-out of the Government Employees Medical Scheme address disparities in the healthcare sector or merely provide civil servants with top-quality medical care? The Department of Health argues that, more public servants will pay for healthcare in public hospitals, generating income for improved services.
To coincide with National Woman’s Day, <i>The Media</i> magazine once again celebrates the remarkable individuals chosen as South African media’s most influential women. In 2005, as in previous years, each woman listed has made an outstanding contribution to the development of the media industry in an economic, political, social or cultural sense, and each has therefore easily fulfilled the criteria for inclusion.