With a glazed look in her eyes, the bored production line worker dips her hand into a bag full of short and curlies, peels off a strip of double-sided transparent tape and applies the furry finishing touch to a plastic vagina. On the table behind, three young migrant workers from Hubei province are a picture of tedium as they fix studs and chains on a red rubber bondage outfit.
He lived and died in the world of gangsta rap, and the identity of his killer remains one of the most enduring and bloody mysteries in the music industry. The Notorious BIG was gunned down at traffic lights in Los Angeles, and since then theories about who pulled the trigger and why have tormented his family.
Six months after the tsunami struck, little remains of the village of Navalady built on a narrow finger of sand extending into the Indian Ocean on Sri Lanka’s east coast. Debris lies in piles on the beach and the road through the village, washed out by the waves, has not been repaired.
The African Union on Friday rejected calls by Britain and the United States to intervene in Zimbabwe, where the president, Robert Mugabe, is conducting a slum clearance programme that has left hundreds of thousands homeless.
The loyalty of the overwhelming majority of South Africans to the Freedom Charter’s vision has made the country what it is today, which many have described as a miracle, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. Mbeki painted a moving picture of the Freedom Charter — the 50th anniversary of which is to be commemorated at Kliptown on Sunday.
Marat Safin’s latest attempt to conquer Wimbledon ended in bitter disappointment and frustration on Friday when he was knocked out in the third round by Spanish serve-and-volleyer Felciano Lopez. The fifth-seeded Russian meekly surrendered the Court One tie to the man who beat him at the Olympics last year.
Saddam Hussein’s family will publish next week a novel written by the ousted Iraqi leader before the US-led war on Iraq, his daughter said on Friday. Ekhroj minha ya mal’un, whose title could be translated into ”Get out, damned one” is a metaphor for a Zionist-Christian plot against Arabs and Muslims.
All Chinese-run websites that fail to register with telecommunications authorities before June 30 will be temporarily closed down, state media said on Friday. The announcement was made on Friday by the Ministry of Information Industry in a bid ”to control domestic internet information services,” the Xinhua news agency said.
Just days after being acquitted on child sex charges, Michael Jackson faced fresh legal woes on Thursday: he is being sued by a woman who claims she was attacked by a dog that escaped from a home he owns. A husky called Flash, who lives at Jackson’s family home in Los Angeles, allegedly bit a woman in Apil.
South Africa’s ruling Africa National Congress’s (ANC’s) documents suggest that government is beginning to embrace the Democratic Alliance (DA) economic policies, says official opposition leader Tony Leon. "We have persuaded the ANC to adopt significant DA policy proposals, such as our ‘prisons Policy’", Leon says.