Scientists have another solution for the notorious ”French paradox” — the riddle of how a nation of alcohol-quaffing, croissant-munching gourmands stays healthy and slim, while a disproportionate number of health-obsessed Americans are obese and at cardiovascular risk.
For the first time, more Americans say they would oppose President George Bush’s re-election in 2004 than support a second term, according to a poll published yesterday that showed mounting pessimism over the US military presence in Iraq.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma has accused the National Directorate of Public Prosecutions of finding him guilty of corruption linked to the country’s arms deal without having the necessary evidence.
Scoreboard at stumps on the fourth day of the fourth Test between England and South Africa at Headingley at Leeds on Sunday.
”My time here could come to an abrupt end,” Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN’s special representative to Iraq, commented just three weeks ago as I sat on a sofa in the Baghdad office that last Tuesday became his tomb. He never seriously imagined he would be an assassin’s target.
An empire built on female nakedness went the way of all flesh last week when Penthouse, the magazine that once epitomised the adolescent male fantasy, accepted its mortality and filed for bankruptcy.
Western Cape divers will be the main beneficiaries of the new 10-year perlemoen harvesting rights that places a moratorium on quotas for recreational divers and eliminates larger fishing companies from competing for the rapidly dwindling mollusc.
Title favourites Manchester United and Arsenal share the top spot in the English Premier League after two weeks while Bayern Munich has moved into a first-place tie in the German Bundesliga.
New Zealand rugby legend Jonah Lomu’s dreams of forcing his way into the All Blacks World Cup squad were dashed on Monday after he was left out of a 30-strong squad named for the tournament.
Tennis player Andy Roddick has put in some bizarre preparation for the next week’s United States Open. He has played to the point where he no longer wants to pick up a racket, and he is now going to jump out of a plane with his coach.