A man was sentenced on Thursday to more than seven years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman sleeping next to him on an airline flight. Deepak Jahagirdar (55) a former health care executive from Scottsdale, Arizona, was convicted in April of sexually abusing and having abusive sexual contact with the woman, then 22.
A day before the United States dropped the world’s first nuclear weapon on Hiroshima, Akie Yoshikawa remembered the sky was full of American B-29 bombers and they were flying like ”swallows”. But she was not particularly concerned.
If it tastes good it must be good for you, seems to be one of those natural assumptions that often prove incorrect, unfortunately. Thai cuisine, which has made rapid strides in international popularity over the past decade, is apparently no exception to this gloomy gastronomical rule, although the good news is that it’s certainly a lot healthier than junk food.
Thierry Henry doesn’t plan to follow Patrick Vieira out of Arsenal. The star striker instead wants a new contract with Arsenal to coincide with the captaincy he inherited from Vieira. He’ll lead his team on Sunday when the FA Cup winners meet league champions Chelsea in the Community Shield.
The football world has obviously become too small for Real Madrid, with the Spanish giants now planning to open theme parks in the United States and China. Real president Florentino Perez told Friday’s AS newspaper that the club have already had talks with officials in Miami and Beijing.
”South African rugby is feeling rather buoyant at present, and there’s good reason for this. Apart from the usual management scandals and a little car trouble, it looks like fair weather and plain sailing — unless you count the fact that the All Blacks are waiting at Newlands on Saturday,” writes Rob Davies.
Springbok rugby is set to be thrown into more turmoil on the eve of the crunch Tri-Nations Test against the All Blacks with a potentially divisive power struggle between SA Rugby vice-president Andre Markgraaff and Bok coach Jake White.
Violinists playing sweetly beneath her, the video game heroine Lara Croft has two guns blazing and the full attention of 10Â 000 people at the Hollywood Bowl. The animated star of Tomb Raider games unflinchingly braves explosions on a giant TV screen that hangs, incongruously, above the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra.
Violinists playing sweetly beneath her, the video game heroine Lara Croft has two guns blazing and the full attention of 10Â 000 people at the Hollywood Bowl. The animated star of Tomb Raider games unflinchingly braves explosions on a giant TV screen that hangs, incongruously, above the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra.
KwaZulu-Natal health minister Peggy Nkonyeni on Thursday denied media reports that the department’s head, Professor Ronald Green-Thompson, had been fired. Her statement came after provincial newspapers and the South African Broadcasting Corporation quoted Green-Thompson as saying that he had been sacked.