If you don’t, you probably know somebody who does. With Britain stuffed full of more cellphones than people, connected members of the public are developing an increasing number of ways to fret about their handsets. The result, say experts, is the telecommunications equivalent of phantom limb syndrome, where amputees still feel the sensations of a limb that isn’t there any more.
A journalist with Burundi’s state-run news agency known for his critical reports about the government has been jailed for allegedly inciting rebellion, an official said on Thursday. Aloys Kabura, a reporter with Agence Burundaise de Presse, was detained on Wednesday and is being held at a prison in the northern town of Ngozi.
The moving train wreck that is Windows Vista finally began to approach its destination last week with the release of another major test version: beta 2. This should mean it is ”feature complete”, with only bug fixes, performance tuning and a final polish before it reaches businesses at the end of this year, and consumers at the start of next year.
Thousands of Eastern Cape children are going hungry after the province’s new school feeding scheme collapsed before it got off the ground, Dispatch Online reported on Thursday. Problems apparently arose after the previous suppliers for the feeding scheme, including two major bakery groups, were dumped.
A German court jailed a woman for 15 years on Thursday for killing eight of her newborn babies in the worst case of infanticide in the country’s criminal history. The court, in Frankfurt an der Oder on the Polish border, convicted Sabine Hilschenz, a 40-year-old woman who has borne a total of 13 children, of eight counts of manslaughter.
South Africa’s most popular pick-up line is ”Here’s R5. Go and phone your parents and tell them you won’t be home tonight”, according to dating website YesnomayB.com. The results of an online survey of about 2Â 000 South Africans also said that one in three people would dump their partner for a date with a celebrity.
Six world powers converged on Vienna on Thursday to break a deadlock on Iran’s nuclear programme after the United States made a dramatic offer to join talks with Tehran if it suspends uranium enrichment. Diplomats are hopeful that a compromise can be reached over Washington’s demand for Tehran to first suspend uranium enrichment.
Lightning storms and monsoon rains lashing parts of India have killed at least 28 people and wrought havoc in the country’s commercial capital Mumbai, officials and witnesses said on Thursday. Strong winds with speeds of about 100kph, lightning and heavy rains killed at least 18 people and injured 21 in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh overnight, police said.
The African Investment Climate Facility (ICF), which is a public-private partnership aimed at making Africa a better place to do business by removing obstacles to domestic and foreign investment, has been widely hailed as an instrument which will work, government and business leaders told the World Economic Forum on Thursday.
Johannesburg’s Labour Court was to hear at least two applications on Thursday to prevent the security guards’ strike from spilling over into other industries. The Roadside Employers’ Association (REA) and a company, Tuncor, were due to have their applications for interdicts against the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu) heard later on Thursday.