Sergio Garcia looked at ease in the spotlight during the Wachovia Championship, starting with a private party two days before the United States PGA tournament. Standing on stage before a packed house, with a beer in his hand and beautiful women at his side, he belted out the chorus to Mustang Sally.
The time has come to get out the winter woolies because very cold conditions and snow is expected over the Northern and Western Cape this coming weekend. The South African Weather Service said that very cold and windy conditions are expected over the high ground of the Northern and Western Cape on Friday, with rain over the Western Cape and the western escarpment of the Northern Cape.
Nearly a decade after accidentally discovering a previously unknown language on an Indian Ocean archipelago off the Eritrean coast, a French linguist is fighting to save the unwritten, untaught tongue. Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle and colleague Martine Vanhove found Dahlak island fishermen conversing in the unusual vernacular nine years ago.
An investigation over the sourcing and accuracy of roughly 160 news stories by a freelance journalist at a leading internet news site concluded that the existence of more than 40 people quoted in the articles could not be confirmed. The stories appeared on Wired News and covered subjects that ranged from computer viruses to the September 2001 terrorist attacks.
The Zimbabwe government’s abuse of human rights activists has not slowed down since the March election that extended the power of President Robert Mugabe, Amnesty International says in a report on Tuesday. The report says it ”noted with growing concern the government’s continuing repression of human rights defenders”.
The New York Times, the United States’s most venerated newspaper, is responding to growing pressure by pledging to increase its coverage of religion and the rural areas in the US, while also recruiting journalists who have military experience.
For an artist who once persuaded his agent to spend a month dressed as a giant pink phallus, getting two New York police officers to stand on their heads in a gallery should have been easy. In fact, Frank and Jamie, precariously balanced under the anxious gaze of a security guard at Christie’s in New York, are waxworks by Maurizio Cattelan, one of the art world’s pranksters.
Carla Lewis took a drive in the new environmentally friendly Toyota Prius and found Zen beyond noisy engines: "The very first moment I spotted the unusual but striking Prius Toyota, I knew I was in for a good ride. After driving one, I know there is another world of transportation out there."
Hector Acebes’s black-and-white portraits were taken at a time when white ex-pats discouraged contact with black cultures. "I was there because I was fascinated by the Africans, so I spent most of my time with them, which annoyed the whites. But I didn’t care," he recalls.
The future keeps coming at us, despite our best attempts, locally, to stay in some long-dead time warp where everyone behaves, worships the government and believes the media. So, this week we are looking at a combo of unexpected things as well as the usual "Behold the future!"-type items — along with a few yummily tasteless links, to appeal to the prurient interest.