Jewish and Arab protesters gave the United States First Lady, Laura Bush, a hostile reception as she toured religious sites in the Holy Land on Sunday. Arriving at Jerusalem’s Wailing Wall, Bush was met by Israelis demanding the release from US prison of Jonathan Pollard, a Jewish American who has served 20 years of a life sentence for spying for Israel.
A rescue team was deployed to Gold Fields’ East Driefontein mine in Carletonville following a tremor shortly after 8am on Monday, the National Union of Mineworkers said. ”Paramedics have gone down. All the workplaces collapsed,” said NUM branch representative Elias Mulaudzi.
If she runs away from her life of prostitution, her parents will become sick and die. At least that’s what this Nigerian woman believes. The threatened curse, she claims, is part of a voodoo rite performed in her homeland just weeks before she was brought to Greece by a prostitution ring.
India’s outgoing cricket coach John Wright may not have renewed his contract because he was humiliated by players under his command, Indian legend Sunil Gavaskar claimed on Monday. ”He was told off and sworn at by some players”, Gavaskar wrote in his widely syndicated column.
Benfica won the Portuguese football league championship for the first time in 11 years on Sunday after drawing 1-1 at Boavista on the final day of the season. Striker Simao Sabrosa scored a penalty in the 38th minute but Boavista equalised four minutes later in a result where Benfica ensured a three-point lead over nearest rivals FC Porto.
Toyota’s new Hilux is stylish, it’s big and it’s well specced. A surprise bonus is that it’s cheap — nine of the fifteen models in the new range cost less than the models they replace. It’s going to make a lot of grown men who work for the opposition cry!The new Hilux styling is stunning, with more rounded lines and a steeply sloped windscreen providing better aerodynamics and reducing wind noise at speed.
The biggest difference between the Subaru Legacy 3.0 R car and its sibling, the Legacy 2.0 GT, is that where the smaller version uses a turbocharger to extract 190kW and 330Nm from its four cylinder engine, the 3.0 R generates ten kilowatts and 33 Newton Metres less from a naturally aspirated flat-six displacing 50% more.
With the rand looking vulnerable, now is the opportune time to invest offshore, even though global markets are experiencing a soft patch, Mark Appleton, chief investment officer at Barnard Jacobs Mellet Private Client Services, said in a statement on Monday.
The National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa will not be compromised by a reduced car pool, said Makhosini Nkosi, the unit’s spokesperson, on Sunday. He was reacting to reports in the media that the unit owes money to the Imperial Fleet Hire vehicle rental company.
An intense political contest over the future structure of the labour market has been taking shape for the past six months in the African National Congress, as the ruling party weighs up radical steps to accelerate job creation and economic development. A suggestion that the party consider supporting the introduction of a ”two-tier” labour system, has the backing of some of the party’s most senior figures.