Explosions in Tehran and southern Iran killed at least nine people and injured 70 on Sunday in attacks apparently aimed at disrupting this week’s presidential elections. A small bomb concealed in a rubbish container exploded in central Tehran, killing at least one person and wounding three, officials said.
Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III, has married another teenage bride who has become his 12th wife, a newspaper report said on Sunday, less than a month after secretly taking another young woman. This time round the king secretly married Nothando Dube (18) on Saturday, the Times of Swaziland reported.
A French journalist was flown back to Paris on Sunday night after being held hostage for five months by insurgents in Iraq. Florence Aubenas (44) was greeted by President Jacques Chirac, her friends and family at the Villacoublay airport, outside Paris.
The Johannesburg Organised Crime Unit is investigating the theft of R1-million worth of electronic equipment from the offices of the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> on Saturday night. About ten men armed with rifles tied-up guards at the newspaper’s premises and then loaded about 40 almost-new Apple computers into a vehicle and fled the office park in Milpark, Johannesburg.
I’m not given to using exclamation marks much — I believe that even the most verbose person should use at most one a week, otherwise we devalue them. It is thus with interest that I direct my gaze at the file in front of me, marked "Test Car Notes and Specifications". At the bottom of the page for the Ford Fiesta ST, in my unmistakable scrawl, I see "lovely, lovely lovely!!!" and "9,5/10!!!"
News about the London bombings break at the same time J-Lo’s latest tantrum makes world headlines – welcome to the global village, courtesy of 24-hour media networks.
Childhood is a stage of human development full of promise and endless possibilities. The influences that shape the mind and body of the young person have lasting effects. These include the obvious such as factual knowledge and conceptual thinking as taught in schools, as well as the general development of value systems and a sense of morality as shaped by family and society. What, then, is the role of physical activity?
It may not be a sport that will make you a millionaire or take you to the Olympics, but youngsters still enjoy a good game of jukskei.
Charné Nel* speaks about her career in law the same way some people speak about chocolate – she luuuurvs it!
A pioneering language project that has been running for five years is facing closure because of the Gauteng department of education’s (GDE) reluctance to support it.