Fourth seed Amelie Mauresmo of France worked her way back from a slow start to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals in London on Tuesday, defeating Italian veteran Silvia Farina Elia 7-5, 6-3. Mauresmo is rated the main threat to top seed and defending champion Serena Williams.
Monir Chaudan takes off his gumboots and wiggles two stumps at the end of his feet where his big toes should be. ”I went to work even when I lost these. If you don’t, you lose your job,” he says. Randeep Ramesh reports on India’s controversial ship-breaking business, where work is dirty, dangerous and ill-paid.
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The police have been instructed to stop giving information to the media on the anticipated arrests of soccer referees and officials in Operation Dribble, a spokesperson said on Monday. Information would only be supplied if there had been an arrest.
To find Regal Montrose cinemas in Akron, Ohio, just head down the 77 interstate and follow globalisation’s glowing signs. Using brand names as landmarks, helpful people will guide you past Chilis (”Like no place else”) and Steak ‘n’ Shake (”May I take your order?”) and warn you that when you get to Taco Bell (”Think outside the bun”) you have gone too far. Eventually you’ll find it next to Staples, the chain stationers, whose slogan, appropriately enough, is ”That was easy”.
Preliminary studies into the efficacy of the anti-Aids drug nevirapine have raised concerns about patients developing resistance to the drug, the South African health ministry said on Monday. A national consultative meeting would be convened as soon as possible after next month’s international Aids conference in Bangkok to further discuss the matter of resistance, the ministry said.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has repeated its call for President Thabo Mbeki to urgently break the ”silence of silent diplomacy” towards Zimbabwe. The MDC this weekend accused Mbeki of misleading the world by constantly asserting there was progress in the talks between Zimbabwe’s government and the MDC, says the DA.
The cast of Lord of the Dance, traumatised by the weekend murder of a colleague in Johannesburg, will all be flying home to their families, Michael Flatley said on Monday. ”Nothing is more important to me than the wellbeing of the dancers,” said Flatley, the founder of the dance show, while addressing a press conference at Sandton on Monday.
A secret French-South African anti-poaching operation in the Southern Ocean has led to the arrest of an fishing vessel — but only after shots were fired at the suspected poacher when it refused to stop. The arrest took place about 5 000km south-east of Cape Town, within the economic exclusion zone around the French Antarctic island of Kerguelen.
<i>Iphepha elisematheni lesiZulu, Isolezwe, seliyatholakala kwi-Internet</i>. Yes, <i>Isolezwe (Eye of the Nation)</i>, the KwaZulu-Natal-based, Zulu-language daily newspaper, is now available on the web. This makes the site the first Zulu news website. This is a bold step for the cheeky, two-year-old, ground-breaking newspaper, founded by well-known journalist Cyril Madlala.