Soccer players from 18 countries kicked off a world cup of a different kind on Monday in southern Austria: All the players are homeless.
It is old news — 251-million years old — but the story of what happened then, now told for the first time, demands our urgent attention. Only six degrees separate our world from the cataclysmic end of an ancient era.
Three key markers — trade flows, technological change and cross-border capital flows — suggest globalisation has further marginalised Africa.
United States President George Bush is to arrive at Waterkloof Air Force base outside Pretoria late on Tuesday night for a brief official visit to South Africa. He will be accompanied by his Secretary of State Colin Powell and Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Walter Kansteiner.
Mbeki and Bush to talk money
The neurosurgeons in Singapore who are trying to separate adult Iranian twins joined at the head were forced to slow their unprecedented surgery to a near halt last night as the pressure of the sisters’ brains on each other made the procedure harder than expected.
Ladan Bijani died on Tuesday shortly after surgeons separated her from her twin, Laleh, who is critically ill, a hospital spokesperson said.
Complications slow surgery on twins
The father of All Black Jonah Lomu fears the giant wing, stricken by a kidney ailment, may put his life on the line to play at this year’s World Cup in Australia.
South Africa’s population grew by 10% from 1996 to 44,8-million in 2001, according to the results of the latest census released in Pretoria on Tuesday.
Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar will have to go to court after teammates reacted angrily to his claims he had no-one in the Pakistan team to back him up.
Economic crime was a problem worldwide, but South Africa suffered particularly from this sort of crime, a survey conducted by global accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) found.