It’s never too late to start a new career — even if you’re 96 years old and the new job is modelling cosmetics. Irene Sinclair, a Guyana-born pensioner living in London, is appearing on billboards around Britain this month, wrinkles and all, to help sell Dove, a popular brand of facial cream.
An Australian man who was hailed a hero for allegedly saving more than a dozen lives in Thailand during the tsunami disaster has been arrested by local police on outstanding assault and burglary charges. Thomas David Connell was handcuffed and arrested after he stepped off the plane at Brisbane International airport on Monday.
1. A photograph released to The Washington Post on May 6 shows United States soldier Lynndie England holding a leash connected to a naked Iraqi detainee at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Photograph: AP/The Washington Post 1. A photograph released to The Washington Post on May 6 shows United States soldier Lynndie England holding […]
Napster, the name that once was a symbol of rampant music piracy, on Monday completed its transformation to respectability by becoming a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq exchange. The new company is a far cry from the old Napster, which had as many as 70-million members freely trading music files.
The leader of a Peruvian paramilitary nationalist group that seized a police station, took 10 officers hostage and allegedly killed four more surrendered late on Monday as security forces launched an offensive against his followers, an Interior Ministry official said. Former army major Antauro Humala turned himself in to Peru’s national police chief.
A trailer carrying 15 000 litres of hazardous sulphuric acid overturned on the N1 outside Pretoria on Monday, disrupting peak-hour afternoon traffic. Tshwane Emergency Management Services spokesperson Johan Pieterse said traffic officers advised north-bound motorists to close their windows and turn off their air conditioning.
Michelangelo’s David had centuries of gunk picked out of every nook and cranny of his perfect marble body last year in honour of his 500th birthday. But it seems the statue will be dirty again soon if it is not protected from the millions of visitors who traipse past it every year. Experts are considering blasting air from behind the 5m-high statue at the crowds of admirers.
Neither South Africa nor Sudan has yet been able to establish societies acceptable to all their people, South African President Thabo Mbeki has told Sudan’s National Assembly. Mbeki was in Sudan after attending the signing of a peace deal between the Khartoum government and the Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement in Kenya.
Spot gold has broken through the key $430 a troy ounce level in a very decisive fashion and the risk in the next few days and during the first part of January is for additional losses, analysts for investment bank JP Morgan wrote in a technical note on Tuesday. At 8.15am, gold was quoted at $429,38/oz.
A team of volunteers from the South African humanitarian organisation Global Relief was among the first relief workers to reach Meulaboh, on Indonesia’s island of Sumatra, one of the regions most devastated by last week’s tsunamis. More than half of Meulaboh’s 80 000 residents are estimated to have perished in the disaster.