Security in Helsinki is being tightened to never-before seen levels ahead of the World Athletics Championships starting on Saturday, but police say they are more worried about hooligans and thugs than about terrorism. Athletes from more than 200 countries will participate in the games set to take place amid record security levels.
A South African flight attendant was jailed for 18 years on Thursday for trying to smuggle heroin with a street value of up to ,5-million into Australia. Leyakoa Mohlasedi was a crew member on a flight from Johannesburg last year when he smuggled in almost 1,2kg of the drug, national ABC radio reported.
The first sign that something might be amiss came when the plane lifted abruptly into the air after the captain aborted his first attempt to touch down. The cabin fell gradually silent as the jetliner regained height and circled above the airport for several minutes.
It is guaranteed to raise a cheer among those who enjoy a tipple: moderate drinkers are better thinkers than teetotallers or those who overindulge. Research by the Australian National University in Canberra suggests drinking in moderation boost your brainpower. But none at all, or too much, can make you a dullard.
Britain secretly supplied the 20 tonnes of heavy water to Israel nearly half a century ago which enabled it to make nuclear weapons, according to Whitehall documents which have been discovered at the Public Records Office. According to the files, officials in the Macmillan government deliberately concealed the deal from the United States.
The United States on Wednesday faced one of its most deadly days in Iraq since the start of the war when a massive roadside bomb killed 14 marines in an insurgent stronghold close to the Syrian border and news emerged of the murder of a US journalist in Basra.
Fearful residents fled the centre of Khartoum on Wednesday as armed gangs roamed the streets in a third day of violence that threatened to undermine Sudan’s tenuous north-south peace deal struck six months ago. Leaders called for calm to prevent the revival of a 20-year civil war.
A new entrant in the business print sector is due to be launched in October. Called <i>Maverick</i>, the title is aiming at a circulation of 25,000 to 30,000, and will sell at a cover price of R23,00. The publication will be distributed every four weeks and is to be funded by an institution whose identity, according to publisher Branko Brkic, “will be announced in due course.”
As Gerald Majola demonstrated this week, the trouble with Jedi mind tricks is that you need to be a Jedi master before you can pull them off. Otherwise you just end up looking like a chubby bloke in a suit wafting your fingers across people’s faces. Groping in vain in his cassock for the reassuring feel of his light-sabre, Majola said that media predictions of financial disaster in the sport were ”absolute nonsense”.
Chaya Belogorodsky, a slight, fair-haired and devout 14-year-old girl, is considered such a grave ”danger to public peace”’ that Israel’s highest judges dare not let her out of prison and back to her home in a Jewish settlement. Chaya and two other teenage girls have been the only prisoners in a special women’s wing of Maasiyahu jail since their arrest a month ago during a right-wing demonstration against the pullout.