Saturday morning. Launch of biography last night downstairs in the Albert Luthuli Memorial Log-Bar and still as giddy as a schoolgirl. Slept in my tux, just didn’t want it to end. Mistake, though: forgot I had smuggled out crème brûlée in breast pocket for celebratory nosh-up in bed after lights out and presidential duvet now covered with ants.
A blazing Cherokee Jeep smashed into the main terminal building at Scotland’s Glasgow airport on Saturday, police said, a day after two car bombings were foiled in central London. Police said two people were arrested in Saturday’s incident. The airport was closed afterwards. There were no reports of any injuries.
There had been no ”bitter conflict” at the African National Congress’s (ANC) policy conference this week, party president Thabo Mbeki said in his closing address on Saturday. He told the 1Â 500 delegates at Gallagher Estate in Midrand that the meeting had been highly successful.
Don Harvey’s long-haul truck had almost three million kilometres on it when its engine died this week. Now he and his wife are millionaires who bought the winning ticket for a ,8-million lottery jackpot. Harvey and his wife, Joyce, said they will pay off bills, help family members and think about buying a new home with their winnings.
The Western Cape’s newest — and potentially second largest — cycle race, Die Burger Fietstoer, was unveiled on Friday and will take place on Sunday December 2. This road race will take place in and around Stellenbosch and is an official seeding event for the Cape Argus Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Tour.
Flood-weary residents of Texas and Oklahoma had no reprieve on Friday as more rain fell in a region where two weeks of storms have swollen rivers and lakes beyond their limits. A state of emergency was in place for all of Oklahoma on Friday, and flood watches and warnings were posted for river communities.
The internet’s key oversight agency is on track to start testing addresses entirely in foreign characters by November, but rules for determining which ones to permit likely will take another year or two to develop. Individuals and companies outside the United States long have clamoured for non-English scripts.
Losing email can cost you both lost time and opportunity. That’s because most of us have valuable information stored in our email programs — addresses, contact information and appointments, and some of it can be difficult or impossible to replace. Backing up your email, therefore, is essential.
A year ago, Australia was awash in wine. But thanks to the worst drought in a century, the 2007 vintage will be one of the leanest in years and the grape glut is drying up fast. For winemakers like Terry Dolle, who has a small vineyard near the cool-climate town of Orange west of Sydney, the past year has been a ”series of disasters”.
A Taiwan young woman has been indicted for sending dog poop as a birthday gift to a colleague over a personal dispute, a newspaper said on Saturday. Liu Chia-pei (27) and Ma Wan-ching work in the same company in Taichung, central Taiwan, but often argue because Liu likes to have the air conditioning turned on all the time.