It is the unluckiest city in Ireland. While everywhere else was riding the economic boom, poor old Limerick, dubbed ”stab city” by a local judge, was best known for drugs, guns and murderous gangland family feuds. Then Frank McCourt came along with his memoir Angela’s Ashes, for ever associating the place with consumptive children sent hungry to bed dreaming of a crust of bread.
A Taiwanese man is breathing easier on Monday after a surgeon removed a missing set of dentures from one of his bronchial tubes — three years after he lost them in a fall. Surgeon Chen Chun-lei said the unidentified man visited his clinic several days ago complaining of shortness of breath and a high fever.
Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi on Monday rejected a new action plan by the United Nations aimed at reconciling rival factions in the Horn of Africa nation’s transitional government. Gedi said the proposal is an imposed solution to a problem that can be dealt with by the government of a ”sovereign country” without outside help.
Heavy overnight rains hit the western Indian city of Mumbai, disrupting relief work in monsoon floods that have already claimed more than 1 200 lives nationwide. Schools, colleges and educational institutions were closed as incessant rains since Sunday evening threw life out of gear in Mumbai.
At least six striking mine workers were injured when security guards shot tear-gas grenades at protesters outside the Xstrata chrome mine near Rustenburg. Security guards took action after about 250 protesters attacked the vehicle of a non-striking employee, said Etienne du Preez, manager of corporate affairs for the company.
South African pilot Niel Steyl experienced his release from Zimbabwean prison at the weekend as the start of a second innings, media reports said on Monday. ”It feels as if I was clean-bowled out of my first life, but the second innings of my life started on Saturday,” he told reporter Erika Gibson.
South African oil and chemicals group Sasol on Monday announced that it is considering the disposal of its Olefins and Surfactants business, excluding its co-monomers activities, in South Africa. Sasol acquired Condea in 2001 from German-based RWE Dea. Most of the Condea business was subsequently hosted in Sasol Olefins and Surfactants.
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was firmer at midday on Monday, lifted by positive global sentiment towards equities. Stocks that fell on Friday due to profit-taking ahead of the weekend recouped their losses, dealers said. By 12.02pm, the all-share index added 0,49%.
Trap of mental illness Thanks for publishing David Le Page’s brave account of what it means to suffer from bipolar disorder (“Mindful of mania”, July 29). But spare a thought for people who love those who suffer from mental illnesses. We are also caught in the mind-body dualism trap Le Page describes. Because we are […]
Popinjays lead the left Let me get this absolutely straight: “Jacob Zuma deserves his day in court in order to clear his name of spurious accusations that he somehow knew the source of half a million rand a year paid into his bank account, and that he somehow read the contents of a letter that […]