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/ 15 August 2007

Everton hand Spurs second straight defeat

Everton scored three first-half goals to win their second straight English Premier League match on Tuesday, winning 3-1 at Tottenham to hand Spurs their second consecutive loss. Goals by Leon Osman and Alan Stubbs in the final eight minutes of the first half led Everton to victort, who also won their season-opener at home against Wigan 2-1 on Saturday.

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/ 15 August 2007

Rules shift in cellphone etiquette

Your cellphone is vibrating in your pocket while you’re trapped in an endless business meeting. Surreptitiously bringing the device into view under the mahogany table you see the caller ID — it’s your boss and she wants to know if the company has sealed the deal.

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/ 15 August 2007

Sudanese gangs take to Cairo streets

Marc wears a New York Yankees cap, loves rap music and has ”Los Angeles” scrawled in black ink across his forearm, but he will probably never see the United States. The 21-year-old is one of an estimated one million Sudanese refugees living in Cairo. Poor, jobless and subject to racist abuse, he has few aspirations other than to leave Egypt.

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/ 15 August 2007

Act on Zim, rights group tells SADC

Human Rights Watch on Tuesday urged Southern African leaders to send monitors to Zimbabwe to investigate the clampdown on the pro-democracy movement. On the eve of a key Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit , leading Zimbabwean human rights groups said they held a four-hour meeting with South African mediators.

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/ 15 August 2007

Japan offers remorse on WWII surrender day

Japan offered remorse for past atrocities on the anniversary on Wednesday of its World War II surrender as top leaders steered clear of a shrine at the heart of friction with neighbouring countries. Sixty-two years after Japan capitulated in the deadliest conflict in history, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged that his country would not return to war.

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/ 15 August 2007

China bridge-collapse death toll rises

The death toll from the collapse of a bridge under construction in central China rose to 36 on Wednesday, with 23 others still missing, officials said. The 328m bridge over the Tuo River in Hunan province crumbled on Monday as workers were removing steel scaffolding erected during the building work, the State Administration of Work Safety said.

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/ 15 August 2007

More than 200 dead in Iraq truck bombings

The death toll from brutal truck bombings targeting the ancient Yazidi religious sect in northern Iraq rose to more than 200 on Wednesday, a local government official said. The mayor of Sinjar, a town in the northern province of Nineveh where four truck bombs exploded on Tuesday, voiced fears that the toll could rise further.

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/ 15 August 2007

The age of the project manager

Project management skills are so valuable that they can be used in everyday work-life and not just in a specific project. This is the view of Professor Pieter Steyn, principal of Cranefield College, and the first South African to be appointed to the research management board of the International Project Management Association.

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/ 15 August 2007

Overcoming the thesis hurdle

Erika Jacobs knew that by attaining an MBA degree she would be better equipped to start her own business, so she registered for the Unisa MBL. She wanted to acquire strategic information on markets, labour issues, legislation and interest rates. Jacobs had to produce a research thesis, which turned out to be a roller coaster ride. As a BCom accounting graduate, she did not have much experience in writing essays of an academic nature.