Ferrari’s six-times world champion Michael Schumacher will start from the pole in Sunday’s Australian Formula One Grand Prix after qualifying in the fastest time in Melbourne on Saturday. Schumacher trumped teammate Rubens Barrichello in a fastest flying lap time of one minute and 24,408 seconds.
Yolandi Groenewald went east to explore the ancient ruins of Angkor Wat — the biggest religious structure on Earth — in Cambodia, and found a country recovering from a troubled past. Angkor was virtually lost to the world for 800 years, concealed in the dense jungles of Cambodia.
In an exclusive interview, Dr Peter Piot, executive director of the United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids, talks about the allegations that HIV/Aids statistics are inflated. "Our estimates are based on real-life studies, and the methodology is straightforward," he says.
Leaders and supporters of rival political parties put aside their differences on Friday for the opening of a refurbished rural high school in the village of KwaNxamalala in northern KwaZulu-Natal. Thousands of children, their parents and villagers walked long distances to the Mnyakanya secondary school opening.
Tropical Cyclone Gafilo is nearing Madagascar and expected to sweep across the northwestern coast of the Indian Ocean island nation on Sunday, the local meteorological office warned on Friday. Last month, 29 people were killed, 100 injured and 44 000 left homeless on the island by Cyclone Elita.
John Ondrasik, basically, is Five for Fighting. He writes the music, sings it, lends a hand with the production, and plays piano and guitar (and there’s a lot of that). His fellow two musicians, Curt Schneider and Andrew Williams, simply fill in the gaps. Riaan Wolmarans reviews The Battle for Everything.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: David Mackenzie’s new film, Young Adam, is based on the novel of sinister and transient bohemianism by the all-but-forgotten Scottish beat author Alexander Trocchi, and it is a conspicuously more mature piece of work, writes Peter Bradshaw.
Partisans of exiled Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide looted a container port on the northern fringe of Port-au-Prince late on Thursday as United States and French patrols sought to enforce an overnight curfew in its fifth consecutive night. Meanwhile, a meeting took place to start the process of naming a new Haitian government.
About 138 people, most of them illegal immigrants, were arrested during an anti-crime operation in Johannesburg on Friday morning, police reported. Inspector Dennis Adriao said at least 130 of those detained were illegal immigrants. About 30 of these were identified as suspects in cases including rape, armed robbery and murder.
Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota has denied that a South African Air Force (SAAF) aircraft, or one chartered by the SAAF, is in Haiti. Lekota was responding to a letter by the Democratic Alliance’s James Selfe on Thursday, asking him to confirm or deny that the South African National Defence Force currently has aircraft in Haiti.