One of Europe’s leading scientists yesterday raised the possibility that the extreme heatwave now settled over at least 30 countries in the northern hemisphere could signal that man-made climate change is accelerating.
One candidate is famous for her pouting lips, cleavage and pink Corvette. Another is best known as a hustling pornographer who survived an assassination attempt. A third is a former punk rocker who had a hit 20 years ago with a song called Property is Theft. And a fourth is a bodybuilder whose catchphrase is ”I’ll be back”.
The rebels besieging the Liberian capital made a surreal bid for respectability yesterday by herding thousands of civilians from the ruins of the city to sing their praises.
Serious tribal jockeying for President Robert Mugabe’s post has rocked the party since it became apparent that he might leave office before the end of the year.
The harlequin sprite, a dragonfly long thought to be extinct throughout its home areas in KwaZulu-Natal, was rediscovered recently when a Working for Water team was clearing the Pilgrim’s Rest area in Mpumalanga of invasive alien plant species.
Mbeki identifies the defeat of global poverty as the biggest challenge facing the world economy. The aim is laudable but Mbeki has the wrong targets and the wrong model. In effect, he is barking up the wrong tree.
Recent press coverage of the World Bank report on the economic costs of HIV/Aids to SA has been misleading, inferring that, according to the bank, SA will suffer an economic meltdown due to the pandemic. Yet the report does not make this claim.
South African Rugby will launch an internal investigation into foul play allegations made by the Wallabies following their Tri-Nations rugby Test in Brisbane on Saturday, SA Rugby chief Rian Oberholzer said on Wednesday.
New Zealand rugby referee Paddy O’Brien has leapt to South Africa’s defence, rubbishing suggestions they are a ”dirty” team.
A diamond necklace worth as much as some houses. More than 000 in limousine rides. Sixty thousand dollars worth of rugs. Mike Tyson’s Manhattan bankruptcy filing lays out the surprising ease with which the former heavyweight champion burned through hundreds of millions of dollars during his career.