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/ 2 December 2006
The cheerful Super Silly Science Game is ideal for cash-strapped classrooms. For a start, teachers can get it free. It’s also fun. So much fun that students playing it may not realise they’re refreshing their knowledge and skills at the same time.
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/ 1 December 2006
British scientists probing the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday a second man had been poisoned by radiation. Media reports said the man was an Italian he met at a London restaurant. ”We are confirming that one further person … has been found to have a significant quantity of polonium 210 in their body,” a spokesperson for the Health Protection Agency said.
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/ 1 December 2006
The death toll from catastrophic floods that have hit East Africa has risen to more than 250, aid workers said on Friday as rains continued to pound the impoverished region. Floods have hit Kenya, Somalia, Rwanda and Ethiopia, with tens of thousands of people forced to flee their homes, aid agencies said. Disease from poor sanitation is also taking its toll.
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/ 1 December 2006
Felipe Calderon took over as Mexico’s president on Friday and pleaded for an end to months of unrest over his narrow election win, but a huge brawl erupted in Congress where leftist opponents vowed to block him from taking the formal oath of office.
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/ 1 December 2006
Problems with delegate registration on Friday caused major hold-ups at the African National Congress’s (ANC) Eastern Cape provincial conference in Alice. Registration, which involves creating a photo identity card for each of the more than 1Â 700 voting delegates, was supposed to have been completed before the opening session on Thursday night.
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/ 1 December 2006
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Two ethical controversies flared into life on World Aids Day on Friday as the United States and South Africa backed sexual abstinence in their mix of programmes to fight Aids and British leader Tony Blair lashed at religious bans on condoms. US President George Bush joined other leaders around the world in renewing a vow to combat the pandemic.
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/ 1 December 2006
Vernon Gibbs and Tony Halls got married on Friday in South Africa’s first gay wedding, a day after the government made same-sex marriages legal. The couple, who run a guest lodge on the south-western coast, went down to the local home affairs office in the town of George.
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/ 1 December 2006
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By sun-up, Valencia Mofokeng has her modest home in the ramshackle black township, Orange Farm, near Johannesburg humming like a well-oiled machine. Her six small children have bathed in a plastic washbasin, the dirt yard is swept, the bed is made and Mofokeng is dishing out a hot breakfast of scrambled eggs and cheese slices.
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/ 1 December 2006
Kelly Fletcher reviews Ching-He Huang’s cookbook, China Modern as well as other cookbooks on our shelves.
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/ 1 December 2006
You won’t find a recipe for pap in Anna Trapido and Coco Fathi Reinarhz’s new cookbook, writes Matthew Krouse.