Doctors in northern Thailand have removed almost three dozen fly maggots from a woman’s nose, where they were eating their way towards her brain, a report said on Tuesday. The 38-year-old pig farmer from the north-western city of Chiang Mai is believed to be the first reported case in Thailand of maggots nesting in a human’s nose.
Hatem Abu Eltayef has a vision for the future of his crowded and battered town once the Israelis have retreated from the sprawling settlement on the other side of the barbed wire and machine gun posts. The town planner of Khan Yunis, at the southern end of the Gaza Strip, foresees new homes for the dispossessed, shopping strips, and tourists rubbing shoulders with locals.
Pit bull terriers are to be banned in Australia’s biggest states after a series of vicious dog attacks put people in hospital. New South Wales premier Bob Carr on Tuesday branded the breed ”killing machines on leashes” that should be exterminated.
Traditional media such as newspapers and radios are casting an increasingly covetous eye over the growing number of internet blogs, hoping to cash in on a slice of the action. With daily newspaper circulation in decline, the highly critical and at-times irreverent world of the personal online journal with its potential to attract millions of readers is looking more and more attractive.
Actress Lindiwe Cibi was in a critical condition in Johannesburg’s Garden City hospital on Monday after being shot at her home on Saturday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Thembi Nkwashu said a man has been arrested and is expected to appear in the Protea Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday.
The Royal Swazi Sun golf club, having grown into its several changes over the past year, promises an appetising challenge for the field gathered for this week’s 2005 Capital Alliance Royal Swazi Sun Open. Course superintendent Gaerun Wilkinson made several changes in preparation for last year’s tournament to increase the course yardage to 5 983m.
The Department of Minerals and Energy said on Monday that it was awaiting the outcome of an investigation by the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa into claims that former Pelindaba nuclear workers had contracted serious diseases, possibly caused by radiation.
Chris Gayle admitted that advice from West Indies cricket legend Garfield Sobers played a major role in his epic triple hundred in the fourth and final Test against South Africa on Monday. Gayle made 317 in a West Indies total of 565 for five, replying to South Africa’s first innings total of 588 for six declared.
Little has changed one year after Zimbabwe earned itself a place on a list of the world’s worst places to be a journalist, published by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. Another of the country’s few independent publications, The Weekly Times, was forced to close shop earlier this year, after having its licence withdrawn by the state.
He was a self-confessed beatnik, a bum, a hippy, a semi-trained journalist, a philosopher and an ecologist, but the last thing Bob Hunter said he ever imagined doing was co-founding a group that ended up as a multinational company with 2,5-million members, branches in 40 countries and a byword for environmental activism.