Imagine an Americanised version of sushi: cooked pork or chicken surrounded by a 100% vegetable-based wrapping similar to nori, the seaweed strip traditionally used for sushi. This is but one of the uses that scientist Tara McHugh envisions for the edible food wrappings.
Two United States filmmakers wounded by robbers in Muldersdrift earlier this week were ”stable and recovering” in Milpark Hospital on Friday. Hospital spokesperson Monique Lanz said the men had asked that no other details about them or the nature of their injuries be released.
It was too early to tell how widely supported a strike by Pick ‘n Pay employees was or how many stores were affected, the retailer said on Friday morning. ”It will be about lunchtime when we get a clearer idea,” Pick ‘n Pay chief executive Sean Summers said.
Eleven years ago Shane Warne had the record book in his sights. The leg-
spinner had taken only 141 Test wickets when he said he intended to beat Kapil Dev’s record of 434. One commentator wrote: ”Experts are projecting an eventual tally of 500 wickets, even 600, which is surely fanciful.”
The new attacks in London bore similarities to the July 7 blasts in that they were also implemented by suicide bombers, but in the fresh attacks, the terrorists ran away when the explosives failed to ignite, reported local media on Friday.
Democracy is a Âlascivious cad. An incorrigible dandy, he struts through the poorer neighbourhoods of the world, Âtwirling his moustache and hopping deftly over cowpats, all the while sizing up the blushing, naïve Âdaughters of dictators and tyrants, until he spies one who watches too long, smiles too widely. Come with me, he whispers up to her window, and I will give you the world.
Three pensioners were in intensive care in a Grenoble hospital on Thursday after ordering a glass each of a popular local liqueur, génépi, and being mistakenly served caustic soda. The three, a man of 69, his wife, 68, and her 94-year-old mother, were still in a critical condition after drinking the highly corrosive and toxic cleaning fluid.
Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, which has produced a long line of geniuses from Sean O’Casey to Brian Friel, does not put on an annual Christmas pantomine. But if it did produce a raucous show of punch-ups, mishaps and double entendre, nothing could match the excruciating farce that continues to unfold backstage.
South Africa has already signed a provisional memorandum of understanding with Zimbabwe for a R6,5-billion credit facility, Business Day reported on Friday. It said officials from the South African Reserve Bank and their Zimbabwean counterparts had agreed on a draft deal last week.
London played host to one of its more unusual investment roadshows on Thursday as representatives of the Iraqi telecommunications regulator came to town to look for investors in the country’s fledgling cellphone industry. Years of warfare followed by crippling sanctions have left Iraq as one of the least developed telecoms markets in the world — just 3% of the country.