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A federal judge in Tampa, Florida, rejected a bid to reinsert the feeding tube sustaining the life of a brain-damaged woman whose plight has sparked an emotional debate over the ”right to die”. The woman’s parents will now likely take their case to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, lawyers said.
Collusion claims against South African Airways, SA Airlink, SA Express and Nationwide have been referred to the Competition Tribunal for a ruling, the Competition Commission said on Tuesday. The airlines are accused of agreeing to introduce a fuel surcharge simultaneously on the price of domestic tickets.
South African opening bowler Shaun Pollock will miss the first Test against the West Indies in Guyana due to his injured left ankle. Team physiotherapist Shane Jabaar confirmed on Monday that Pollock will remain in Durban to undergo treatment and a strict rehabilitation programme.
A British factory worker who managed to send a complicated 25-word SMS on his cellphone in just 48 seconds has gained entry into the Guinness Book of Records, it was announced on Tuesday. Scotsman Craig Crosbie earned the crown for being the world’s fastest SMSer during a competition in London.
Austrian authorities are investigating whether a university committed a crime when it used corpses as part of research to develop better crash-test dummies, a prosecutor said on Tuesday. Authorities suspect that researchers at the Technical University of Graz might have violated the dignity of the dead by using bodies in tests.
A German anatomist whose exhibit of preserved corpses has drawn international controversy went to court on Tuesday to appeal against a court ruling that said he was not qualified to use the title ”professor”. Gunther von Hagens’s Body Worlds show has generated curiosity and outrage, drawing several million visitors worldwide.
Union members spared Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour any discomfort on Tuesday when he addressed a range of issues at a community imbizo (meeting) in Mitchells Plain. ”We don’t want to speak, we would be guillotined back at work,” said a Prisons and Police Civil Rights Union member.
One of South Africa’s large spice manufacturers, Robertsons, said on Tuesday it has withdrawn some of its products from supermarket shelves following the Sudan Red dye scare. ”The products were withdrawn as an extreme precautionary measure because they use similar raw materials to the Robertsons peri peri spice withdrawn on Friday,” the company said.
A typhoid epidemic has returned but the taps installed 15 years ago still can’t provide drinking water to the residents of Kinshasa’s crowded Kimbanseke area.
Their plight and that of millions of others worldwide is the focus of the United Nations World Water Day on Tuesday.