Nokia maintained its robust lead in the world cellphone market in the second quarter as sales of entry-level units boosted overall shipment numbers, a technology research house said on Monday. IDC said global shipments of cellphones totalled 188,7-million units in the three months to June, up 16,3% from a year ago and 7,3% from the previous quarter.
The police described in detail on Monday how they monitored a London bombing suspect’s cellphone calls before arresting him in Rome and said his extradition to Britain would not take long. Italian police also said the Briton falsified his name and nationality when applying for asylum in Britain years ago.
Opposition parties on Monday stepped up their attack on individuals allegedly involved in the Oilgate scandal. The Freedom Front Plus laid charges against Imvume Management, the company at the centre of the scandal, on Monday and the Democratic Alliance is to meet the National Prosecuting Authority about the matter.
The Consumer Goods Council of South Africa (CGCSA) asked the Department of Health on Monday to update its list of products containing the carcinogenic Sudan Red food dye, saying such products had already been removed from shelves and production lines.
World oil prices jumped above per barrel on Monday, mainly on concerns about possible supply shortages during the fourth quarter, as markets shrugged off the death of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in September, climbed to ,02 per barrel in electronic dealing.
We have not stifled debate Rena Singer asserts that the Kaiser Family Foundation has stifled the Aids debate in South Africa (”Is loveLife making them love life?”, August 19). This is unfounded and untrue. The foundation’s 20-year record in South Africa clearly demonstrates that we have invested substantially in encouraging broader and better informed public […]
Liberation is in the mind The main difficulty in South Africa is in trying to address any issue in isolation. Everything is interrelated, so Zanele Nkosi (”Own the affirmation”, August 12) has to look at the variety of reasons why intended beneficiaries denigrate affirmative action. Colonialism is an insidious process that causes its victims to […]
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.
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.
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.