Martha Stewart, the businesswoman who made millions instructing Americans on the minutiae of domestic living, faces prison after she was on Friday found guilty of lying to government investigators over a suspicious sale of shares. The verdict stunned the hordes of fans and media crews at court.
A shower of rain won’t put a damper on Sydney’s back-out-of-the-closet annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras parade. Neither will it scupper an attempt at a world record for the most people in one place dancing to the Village People’s disco classic <i>YMCA</i>, chief organiser Michael Woodhouse said on Saturday.
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The Cabinet in the Central African Republic (CAR) went into talks on Friday, reportedly to discuss what to do with their difficult guest, ousted Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and took steps to keep him quiet. All journalists with questions relating to Aristide must now first address themselves to the CAR authorities.
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South Africa’s top athletes were bitterly disappointed when unpleasant conditions spoilt all their chances to use the fourth Absa Series meeting as an opportunity to qualify for the Olympic Games. The meeting started on a high note with a brilliant new South African record in the 5 000m walk.
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.
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.