Over 500 people were arrested on the East Rand over the weekend, mostly for offences related to drunk and disorderly behaviour, police said on Sunday. Most of the arrests, made in Springs, Kwa- Thema, Boksburg and Alberton, were related to selling liquor without a licence and drinking or being drunk in public, said police spokesperson Superintendent Andy Pieke.

Wealthy Americans seeking immortality now have the option of being reincarnated as a work of art. For the sum of  000, aficionados of the great American architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright can be buried in one of the last of his works to be completed: the Blue Sky Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York.

It sounded like the plot of a horror film. Eight deer hunters become hunted themselves, by a lone gunman. Only two injured survivors live to tell the tale. This was no movie, however, but a real killing spree that has stunned the United States. And its seriousness does not end with the echo of gunshots in a Wisconsin forest. The massacre has raised the prospect of ethnic strife and revealed a link to a bloody, forgotten sideshow of the Vietnam war.

The message has been consistent: Israel believes the United States-backed road-map is the way to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It has been repeated by Ariel Sharon and by ministers, yet now government papers suggest that Israel intends to bypass the peace plan, creating a Palestinian state of enclaves, surrounded by walls and linked by tunnels and special roads.

If you live long enough, you get to see the world turn — or turn upside down. After a lifetime spent watching and living through the abrasive, competitive relationship between Australia and Britain, I can vouch for that. Growing up in the southern state of Tasmania in the 1950s, I measured the expanses of water on the map and wondered why we had been dumped at this forlorn global extremity. Plotting my escape, I played Monopoly — enabling me to buy and sell Piccadilly.

South Africa launched five tries in the first half-hour and cruised past Argentina 39-7 in a rugby international at Velez Sarsfield on Saturday. The Springboks led 36-0 after 30 minutes then loosened their grip and could add only a second-half penalty by fullback Gaffie du Toit, who finished with two tries in a 24-point haul.