After more than a week of campaigning, the Egyptian people have been greeted with the unfamiliar sight of several different presidential candidates asking for their vote. This is the first time the country has ever had a multicandidate presidential campaign. Candidates have held several election events throughout the country.
About R1,2-billion of public hospital fees are still outstanding from the 2004/05 financial year, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday. ”An astonishing 68% of fees billed for the 2004/05 financial year were not paid,” said DA health spokesperson Dianne Kohler-Barnard. The DA found that only R560-million (32%) was paid.
Europe’s weather crisis eased on Thursday as fires were put out in Portugal and flood waters receded in central Europe, but the death toll rose in Romania and Austria after heavy rains. Since June, the flooding in central and eastern Europe has caused 103 deaths, while fires in drought-stricken Portugal, Spain and France killed 37.
It seems there are two kinds of worm in the Windows world: ones that threaten hundreds of millions of XP users, and ones that embarrass a small number of media companies using Windows 2000. The second type struck last week. It started spreading via the net on Sunday with Zotob.A, which according to anti-virus company Trend Micro, infected about 50 computers worldwide.
With a new blog created every second, how are you going to keep up with 900 000 posts a day across 15-million blogs? These blogs (short for web logs) are online journals written by people who might be talking about your organisation, or sharing information that could help you do your job. And if you have a company blog, how will customers find it among the millions of alternatives?
Internet shoppers will get a chance to add an unusual item to their wardrobe: the flamboyant swan dress worn by Icelandic singer Björk, which will be auctioned for charity next month. The quirky dress is among more than 150 celebrity fashion items that will be up for grabs on auction site eBay.
Geography isn’t history, yet. Far from ushering in the death of distance, the internet is making us more anxious to live alongside like-minded people, reinforcing rather than reducing social divides. This theory appears in a study of websites that publish information about our neighbourhoods.
Jack Slipper, the Scotland Yard detective who pursued one of Britain’s ”Great Train Robbers” across many years and two continents, has died at the age of 81, the metropolitan police said on Wednesday. The force said the retired detective chief superintendent — known as ”Slipper of the Yard” — died on Wednesday after a long illness.
Jack Slipper, the Scotland Yard detective who pursued one of Britain’s ”Great Train Robbers” across many years and two continents, has died at the age of 81, the metropolitan police said on Wednesday. The force said the retired detective chief superintendent — known as ”Slipper of the Yard” — died on Wednesday after a long illness.
The jewel in South Africa’s tourism crown, Cape Town, faces a filthy future as the city’s six major landfill sites are expected to reach their capacity in the next five years. ”We have a serious crisis. Imagine what the city will look like in 2010,” said Saliem Haider, acting head of disposal in the city’s solid-waste department.