Close to 800 murder suspects in Malawi have been awaiting trial for a long time, some of them for as long as 15 years, a government body overseeing prisons said in a report on Tuesday. The Malawi Inspectorate of Prisons criticised the government for failing to try 763 suspects, some of whom have been waiting for years, saying it was a ”gross violation of human rights”.
Chelsea advanced to the Champions League semifinals on Tuesday despite losing 3-2 at Bayern Munich. Chelsea conceded two late goals, but still advanced 6-5 on aggregate, having won last week’s first leg 4-2. Frank Lampard, who scored two goals in the first game, put Chelsea ahead before Claudio Pizarro made it 1-1.
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Lawmakers from Zimbabwe’s main opposition party took up their seats in Parliament on Tuesday despite their refusal to accept the outcome of elections that they say were rigged by President Robert Mugabe’s party. The group of 41 deputies from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) were among 150 lawmakers who were sworn in one by one.
Francois Pienaar, CEO of the Rugby World Cup 2011 bid committee, said on Tuesday that the South African bid process was well on track. With Japan and New Zealand also vying for the right to hold the rugby showpiece, chairperson of the SA bid committee, Mtobi Tyamzashe, said that it made sense to hold the cup in South Africa.
The United States Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, delivered a thinly veiled warning to Iraq’s government on Tuesday not to purge the security forces or abuse its power for patronage. On a visit to Baghdad Rumsfeld signalled US disapproval of any attempt to sweep Arab Sunnis and former members of the Ba’ath party from the police and army.
An ethics commission in Austria on Tuesday defended the use of human corpses as crash-test dummies. A criminal investigation has been launched into research by the Technical University in Graz, after church leaders complained about experiments involving corpses.
Is it just me or has there been a sudden wave of innovation in the techno-world over the past few weeks? It just seems as if there is, suddenly, a whole bunch of cool stuff I need to try. I am not normally prone to gushing, but I’d like to enthuse about three cool tech things that have captured my attention lately: a gadget, a great local bandwidth-busting internet service and a nifty, free piece of software.
The all new Land Rover Discovery is without doubt the most important new product from Solihull in decades. It’s also a genuine class leader, with a solid mix of hi-tech electronics complementing tried and tested 4X4 mechanicals to give it superb on and off-road performance. <i>Wheels & Deals</i> went to Namibia for the launch.
Twice over the past few years small black economic empowerment (BEE) deals in agriculture have trumped multimillion rand deals to win the BusinessMap Empowerment Awards. The latest is the purchase by Grasslands Development Trust of 100% of Grasslands Agriculture. This is the real deal, with the trust, comprising 49 Grassland Group farm workers, buying a 478ha dairy farm.
The radio had reported it. There was a war. Penguin, excited and nervous, ran to his fellows in Penguin Palace and shouted breathlessly: “There is a war, it’s on the radio.” Penguin Senior, an earnest sort of fellow with many worldly achievements under his daily, hand-tied, silk bow tie and chairperson of the World Penguins Trade Association, pressed his chest out and asked, “Where?”