A United States man was on Monday sentenced to 600 hours of community service and ordered to pay more than $13 000 (R84 600) for trying to sell an antique Hawaiian skull in an online auction. In the sale notice, Hasson said he had snuck on to the beach with friends and uncovered an entire skeleton, but only kept the skull.
The old East German Trabant, widely reviled as the worst car made to date, had its day in the sun on Monday when 50 of them spluttered along in a <i>concours d’elegance</i>, trailing their telltale wake of oily blue smoke. The procession in the Bulgarian town of Beloslav, coincided with a literature and book fair.
To suffer Palestinian flags strung up in victory from abandoned Jewish homes or incur global wrath for dynamiting the legacy of a 38-year occupation. That is what Israel must decide when uprooting settlers from nearly 2 000 homes in the Gaza Strip this summer.
Astronomers have discovered a planet that is twice as big as Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, New Zealand researchers at the University of Auckland revealed on Tuesday. They said the newly discovered planet is 15 000 light years away from the Earth, making it one of the most distant discovered to date.
The Zimbabwe government has published a Bill that will allow the government to set fees for private schools, a state-run newspaper reported on Tuesday. The Education Amendment Bill is expected to be debated when Parliament resumes next month, the Herald newspaper said.
In a football stadium tucked away in Western Kenya, the contenders pace and snort under a brilliant blue sky as gusts of wind carry the cheers of thousands of spectators. Oblivious to the noise and bets being placed, Iminyi and Ingwe prepare for battle, racing up and down the pitch as if possessed.
Floods caused by heavy rains have killed at least eight people and displaced tens of thousands across Kenya this month, officials said on Tuesday as downpours continued in parts of the East African nation. Over the weekend three sisters drowned in the central Rift Valley and an infant was swept away by waters in western Kenya.
Laura Bush’s five-day goodwill mission to the Middle East to promote women’s rights has thus far met with protests, muted applause and fashion criticism. On arriving at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday, the United States’s first lady ”was treated to a lesson in the strident realities of Middle Eastern street politics”, reported Eric Silver in the Independent.
The Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa reserved judgement on Monday on whether the South African Broadcasting Corporation was misleading the public by referring to Tshwane instead of Pretoria in radio and television broadcasts. The two-hour hearing followed complaints by viewers and political parties.
The Springbok squad gave the Bulls players a warm reception when the Pretoria-based players joined the national team at their pre-season training in Bloemfontein on Monday. Said Springbok captain John Smit: ”They really did us proud on Saturday and, with a bit of luck, could so easily have won the game.”