Mamelodi Sundowns huffed-and-puffed their way to the top of the PSL log with a 1-0 win over hapless Jomo Cosmos at a sweltering Rand Stadium on Saturday afternoon. How long The Brazilians remain on this lofty perch will depend on what Orlando Pirates achieve against Bush Bucks.

Not even the mortification of conceding a goal within the opening minute could prevent Orlando Pirates from charging to the top of the Premier League table with a 3-1 victory over Bush Bucks at a chilly Ellis Park on Saturday night.

Stung by criticism of his slow response to Hurricane Katrina, President George Bush has been using Sunday’s fourth anniversary of the 11 September attacks to try to shore up his crumbling public support. In his weekly radio address, Bush compared the aftermath of the storm to the US-led war on terror.

Students at Pennsylvania’s Albright college could not have imagined what they were starting when, in 1994, they invented a game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Based on the concept of Six Degrees of Separation, the challenge was to connect every film actor back to Bacon in no more than six associations.

The Johannesburg Metro Police on Saturday announced it was considering instituting claims against a Sandton couple who reported a corrupt licensing official, only to later refuse to cooperate with the department in catching him.

The world’s poorest people are being denied access to drugs because pharmaceutical companies are focusing their resources on diseases suffered by wealthy, middle-aged Americans, such as obesity and heart disease, a leading expert will say tomorrow.

One of the world’s most precious environments, Bhutan’s Jigme Dorji National Park is being threatened by fungus hunters. The fungus Cordyceps sinensisis a traditional Chinese medicine that has soared in popularity in the last couple of years to the point where it now sells for 000 a kilogram — half the price of gold.