After successfully campaigning to have an ”immoral” Axe deodorant advert banned from television because it was too risqué, a Christian lobby group has now set its sights on an Elastoplast advertisement. According to ChristianView Network, a new Elastoplast advert promotes adultery and/or infidelity.
He might be considered the father of modern science who devised fundamental laws about gravity and motion, but Sir Isaac Newton is not even Britain’s greatest-ever physicist, according to a new ”top 10”. The number-one slot went to Joseph Swan, the 19th-century creator of the first practical light bulb.
The crashes of two jetliners minutes apart raised fresh questions on Wednesday about aviation security in Russia, but though experts admit shortcomings they said the industry is far safer than it was a decade ago. A civil aviation analyst said the planes that went down were safe and their pilots well-trained.
Alert after double jet crash
Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday called for swift remedial action from the governments and business in Angola and South Africa to strengthen bilateral economic ties. He was addressing the Angolan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the South African business community of Luanda.
A Greek taxi driver was hailed as a hero in Athens on Wednesday after returning an Olympic silver medal left in the back of his cab by a Dutch rower. The driver is to be honoured by Athens Olympic Games organisers for swiftly handing back the medal after it was mislaid by a member of The Netherlands’ men’s eight rowing team.
Russian Federal Security Service spokesperson Sergei Ignatchenko said on Wednesday that studies of the wreckage of the two planes that crashed on Tuesday have shown no terrorist act was carried out aboard the planes. The two planes crashed nearly simultaneously, killing a total of 89 people.
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The number of schoolchildren bunking from 15 Johannesburg schools for drinking sessions has doubled in recent months, police said on Wednesday. The head of Johannesburg’s Adopt-a-Cop programme, Inspector Alpheus Matsaba, said Gandhi Square has become a hotbed of drugs, rape and alcohol misuse, despite frequent arrests.
Is your boss a charming, well-educated and polished leader intent on climbing the career ladder? If so, he could be a psychopath, psychologists gathered in Stockholm said on Wednesday. Recent research has shown that not all psychopaths are violent killers — many of them hold normal jobs, with some rising to the highest levels of executive management.
There is a meat market, where haunches of goat hang from the thatched roof. There are tea stalls and shacks selling hair mousse and skin cream. Some women dig vegetable plots while their neighbours shape clay and water with their bare hands to build new houses. The refugee camp at Iridimi, in north-eastern Chad, is home to 15 000 people who have fled the violence in Darfur.
Botswana’s Debswana Diamond Mining Company and the Botswana Mining Workers’ Union are talking informally on a resolution to the three-day-old illegal strike at three mines. The strike could end before a contempt-of-court hearing against strikers and all union officials resumes on Thursday.