United States workers are goofing off for two hours a day, trawling the internet or jawing with co-workers, costing their employers -billion a year, according to a new survey. Other ways of frittering away time included making personal phone calls, running errands and an activity described as ”spacing out”.
Former United States president Bill Clinton will embark on a week-long, six-nation African tour this weekend aimed at boosting the work of his foundation in combatting the scourge of HIV/Aids in the continent. Clinton will seek to ”reinvigorate political will” for scaling up HIV/Aids treatment programmes.
Asia faces a 150% increase in HIV/Aids infections over the next five years unless more is done, a report warns.
Abnormally warm weather off the Pacific coasts of Alaska and Canada has decimated the plankton population off shore from Northern California, Oregon and Washington state, causing widespread seabird mortality and potentially devastating the marine food chain, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Tuesday.
A witness on Tuesday gave a gruesome account of how a massacre in the Democratic Republic of Congo took place last weekend, accusing the perpetrators of locking up innocent people and then burning them. The headmaster of Ntulumamba’s primary school, who only gave his name as Bisimwa, managed to flee when the disaster unfolded and walked 70km to find help.
Two vehicles believed to be linked to Thursday’s bombings in London were found in a Luton car park and at a home belonging to a South African woman living in Leeds’ Dewsbury area for more than 20 years, media reports said on Wednesday.
Dispossessed communities who missed out when the application process for land claims restitution expired in 1998 are pressuring the government to reopen applications ahead of the national Land Summit at the end of the month. The reopening of the process is expected to be one of the most heated debates at the summit.
Nasa’s long-awaited return to manned spaceflight looked in jeopardy on Tuesday night after technicians accidentally chipped part of the space shuttle Discovery less than 24 hours before Wednesday’s scheduled lift off. The space agency worked frantically overnight to assess the damage.
Three women were killed and dozens of people wounded on Tuesday when an 18-year-old suicide bomber blew himself up by a busy junction near a shopping mall in the Israeli seaside town of Netanya, north of Tel Aviv. The seriously wounded, including a six-year-old girl who was badly burnt, were taken by helicopter to specialist hospitals around Israel, according to Israel TV.
Three passenger trains collided at a southern Pakistan station early on Wednesday, killing around 150 people and injuring 1 000 in the country’s worst rail disaster for a more than a decade, officials said. Police said the death toll could rise to 300 following the devastating pile-up near the remote town of Ghotki.