As Lyndsay Williams trudged along snow-covered paths and passed by shop windows one recent day in Cambridge, England, so too did her SenseCam — automatically snapping hundreds of photos along the way. Later that day, Williams could have used those pictures to figure out where she’d left her car keys, or to show a friend the sweater she saw in a window.
McDonald’s is already well on the way to phasing out the few ”super size” menu items that it offers in Europe, a regional spokesperson for the United States fast-food chain said on Thursday. ”In most of Europe, there aren’t portions of that size,” McDonald’s Europe spokesperson Mike Love said in London.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma ‘s prospects may hinge on the election in KwaZulu-Natal.
After exhausting the land reform programme theme as a vote-catching gimmick, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has embarked on an anti-corruption crackdown as yet another ploy ahead of next year’s parliamentary election.
There is a still moment near the end of Gillian Slovo’s 1997 family memoir when, in the cold of 5am, just after her father has died, Nelson Mandela says exactly the right thing. Slovo’s parents had been part of the fight against apartheid since the early 50s.
Two days after his coronation as the Democratic party’s presidential nominee, John Kerry faced up to a hard truth on Thursday: George Bush has a -million head start in the election campaign fundraising race. While Bush has -million in hand, Senator Kerry enters the presidential race with his reserves depleted by his party’s primary contest.
Twelve Russian scientists were stranded on a disintegrating free-floating icepack near the North Pole on Thursday night with dwindling power and food supplies, after 90% of their research base was destroyed when the icepack it was built upon began to fragment and sink.
Following the seasonal rains, the Kalahari Desert in central Botswana is alive with rolling waves of green grasses and stretches of bright yellow wild flowers. Large herds of antelope munch the vegetation and canter across the plains. Jackals and hyenas lurk nearby to pick off the stragglers.
Once the cradle of young black leadership, the African National Congress Youth League seems in part to have become a vehicle for elites and a reference point for businesses seeking to engage "political capital".
Here is an idiot’s guide to the 2004 election manifesto of another of the three most prominent political parties currently filling the airwaves and newsprint with great rushings of wind, promises, pledges, commitments, warranties, bargains, bonds and sureties. This week, a brief look at the Democratic Alliance Election Manifesto XP.