Earlier this year, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger feuded bitterly with Democrats in the Legislature over government reform measures he wants voters to consider in a special election this November. Lately, however, the partisan chill has begun to thaw as recent polls have shown both sides are losing ground.
Dennis Desjardin tenderly plucks a delicate brown cupped mushroom, small enough to be Tom Thumb’s goblet, growing in the debris of a soggy field of young corn lilies. ”Isn’t that fantastic?” says Desjardin, pinching the stem of the dripping little fungus in the high Sierra sunlight.
Sudan plans to lodge a protest with the United Nations against Eritrea, accusing it of seeking to stoke instability after a rebel offensive in the east of the country. Opposition rebels launched an offensive in eastern Sudan’s Red Sea State last week in an operation Khartoum said was carried out with the complicity of neighbouring Eritrea.
Designers have been using the latest materials and technology to improve tennis rackets for decades. Now, some are looking back a couple of millennia to Roman civilisation for inspiration. Prince, which has been making rackets for 30 years, has expanded the traditional pin-size string holes on the rim into ovals — a design based on the principal of the arch.
Bryce Easton of Kloof Country Club, a 17-year old Westville Boys High matric student, roared his way to a course record of 64 over the testing Durban Country Club Beachwood course on Sunday. Easton won the the men’s section of the second annual 36 holes SwedoCar Natal Invitation golf tournament by eight shots.
A regional Kenyan hospital overwhelmed at the weekend with patients made violently ill by adulterated moonshine appealed for assistance on Monday as the death toll from the poisonous brew hit 46. Simon Mueke, superintendant of the Machakos District hospital southwest of Nairobi, said his small facility was stretched to the limit and could barely cope with the influx of sick drinkers.
Nasa hopes to give astronomers their first peek at the inside of a comet by blasting a stadium-sized hole through one of the heavenly bodies. If all goes as planned, the Deep Impact spacecraft will release a wine barrel-sized probe on a suicide journey, hurtling toward the comet Tempel 1 — about 130-million kilometres away from Earth at the time of impact.
Hundreds of workers and tourists have lodged complaints about ”icy” air conditioners in hotels, offices and shopping malls around Hong Kong, a news report said on Monday. While summer temperatures climb into the high thirties, the temperature in one Kowloon Bay restaurant toilet was just 16C, the Hong Kong Standard reported.
Princess Diana had a passionate affair with John F Kennedy Jr, according to a new book on the late former wife of Prince Charles. Diana and Kennedy, who both died in tragic accidents in the 1990s, met in in New York in 1995 when the son of the assassinated United States president sought an interview with her for his magazine George, the Sun newspaper reported on Monday.
The Democratic Alliance has written to President Mbeki asking him to answer questions about two encrypted faxes concerning arms deal tenders the party was in possession of. The DA says the faxes imply that the President had guaranteed the arms deal contract before the tender process was complete.