McDonald’s Corp said on Thursday it would offer wireless Internet access to 60 of its Chicago-area restaurants as it rolls out its Wi-Fi service to the US Midwest.
Five of the country’s largest political parties face litigation to compel them to reveal their sources of private funding.
Senior ministers, including Minister of Education Kader Asmal and Minister of Public Enterprises Jeff Radebe, played a key role in driving last week’s Cabinet U-turn on anti-retroviral drug treatment for HIV/Aids.
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Major internet backbones and websites have so far withstood the massive power blackout, a network analysis group, Keynote Systems, said on Thursday.
He may be regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, but Ingmar Bergman had a pretty dim view of his own talents as a young man. He was, he says, a ”useless” actor. His writing was simply ”too flowery”.
The White House last night announced the capture of a man described as the mastermind of the Bali bombing: al-Qaeda’s chief representative and operational planner in south-east Asia.
Battle lines between the ruling African National Congress and issue-driven groups critical of the government’s performance on service delivery were starkly drawn this week, with the laden symbolism of the country’s first decade of freedom looming in April next year.
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Nobel Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa arrived in Nairobi on Thursday to attend an international conference on truth commissions.
Relief agencies working in northern Uganda on Thursday urged the government to dismantle camps housing displaced persons, saying they lacked adequate security.
Luxury car maker BMW has threatened to close its Rosslyn plant near Pretoria because of power failures that have cost it hundreds of thousands of rand in lost production.