The parents of a critically ill baby on Thursday lost their battle to overturn a British court order allowing her to die if her condition seriously worsens and her breathing stops. High Court Justice Sir Mark Hedley upheld an earlier ruling giving doctors permission not to resuscitate Charlotte Wyatt, now 18 months old, in such circumstances.
Temper tantrums by lion murder accused Mark Scott-Crossley during his trial in Phalaborwa Circuit Court should not be held against him in deliberations on the evidence presented during his trial, his counsel, Johann Engelbrecht SC, argued on Thursday. He said Scott-Crossley’s outbursts have to be excluded from deliberations.
The ministry of sport and recreation on Thursday called on the South African Rugby Union to clarify the decision of awarding the fifth Super 14 franchise.
A resolution was passed by the president’s council on April 15 to award Central Unions the new franchise, rather that the government-backed South-Eastern Cape region.
The United States government is trying to block the World Health Organisation from endorsing two abortion pills which could save the lives of some of the 68 000 women who die from unsafe practices every year. The WHO wants to put the pills on its essential medicines list, which constitutes official advice to all governments on the basic drugs their doctors should have available.
Rescuers intensified a search for bodies on Thursday, a day after a blast at a Chinese-owned factory in a Zambian copper mine killed more than 50 people, fuelling charges that the owners had flouted basic safety norms and treated employees like ”pigs”.
The financial performance of the Clicks chain of health and beauty stores, owned by New Clicks Holdings, has been dented for the six months to the end of February by continued "shrinkage" — the retail industry’s term for theft — and losses in its pharmacy operations.
Even United States President George Bush is paranoid about sending e-mail. At a recent briefing with newspaper editors, he was asked about implications of the US’s Freedom of Information Act. He remarked that he doesn’t send e-mails to his family for fear of them ending up in the wrong hands.
The British government should look to the open source movement for more than its software, an influential think tank said on Wednesday. Wide Open, a pamphlet published by Demos, suggests that habits of sharing knowledge through loose communities of interest, such as the Wikipedia encyclopaedia, could improve law-making, standards in the media and health education.
This week, Moore’s Law reached its 40th birthday. Well, it’s 40 years since Electronics magazine published an article by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, entitled ”Cramming more components on to integrated circuits”. Moore had noticed that the number of components on a chip had doubled, from 30 to 60, in a year.
Relegation candidates Manning Rangers and Wits University shared the spoils when they played to a goalless draw in a Castle Premiership encounter at Chatsworth Stadium on Wednesday night. The home side should have won this game in the first half, but were let down by their strikers.