World number-four gold miner Gold Fields on Tuesday reported March quarter net earnings per share after exceptional items of 76 cents compared with 56 cents in the December 2005 quarter. March quarter net earnings were R483-million compared with R262-million in the December 2005 quarter.
Thierry Henry and Arsene Wenger joined forces to slam Sunderland as Arsenal left the Stadium of Light battered and bruised after cruising to a 3-0 Premiership victory. French under-19 international Abou Diaby is a major doubt for the Champions League final against Barcelona on May 17 after he was carried off and taken to hospital with a serious ankle injury.
It is a measure of Diego Maradona’s genius that the scandals which dogged his career will not stop him from being remembered as one of the two greatest footballers to grace the sport. Like Pele, Maradona etched his name among the legends of the game on the most demanding stage of all, the World Cup.
Restaurant chain TGI Friday’s has made a public apology after a customer found a piece of a finger in his food. The sliver of skin ended up being served with the hamburger and fries after a manager cut his finger while working in the kitchen of a Bloomington, Indiana restaurant last week.
Bus drivers in eastern England are threatening to kick up a stink over an order from their bosses to sort out their body odour, The Times newspaper said on Tuesday. Guidelines issued by First Bus in Norwich have told drivers to wash regularly and use deodorant following complaints about their personal hygiene, the daily said.
Governments in Asia are considered among the world’s worst ”enemies” of internet freedom, as they increasingly censor websites and jail people who express views deemed dangerous online. Ahead of World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday, experts say countries including China, Vietnam and Nepal are feeling more threatened by cyberspace than ever as internet use booms.
Soldiers guarded natural gas fields and refineries across Bolivia after President Evo Morales ordered the sector nationalised, threatening to evict foreign companies unless they cede control over production within six months. Reconquering ownership of Bolivia’s natural resources, he said, is ”a fundamental means for recovering our sovereignty”.
Three young women whose naked bodies were discovered on Monday morning in Mamelodi, eastern Pretoria, have been positively identified by their next of kin, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported. Police spokesperson Brenda Kgafela said all three were residents of Section R in Mamelodi.
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Jacob Zuma’s rape trial is expected to end on Tuesday with the defence resting its case at the Johannesburg High Court. All that will remain is for Judge Willem van der Merwe to decide whether the former deputy president raped a 31-year-old HIV-positive woman at his Johannesburg home on November 2 last year.
A 33-year-old Malaysian man who married a 104-year-old woman said it was "God’s will" that he tie the knot with someone old enough to be his great grandmother. "It may seem strange to those who don’t understand us but I have found peace since we got married two months ago," said Muhammad Noor Che Musa.