Jonah Lomu’s rugby comeback has taken an unexpected detour with his appointment to the coaching staff of the New Zealand first division provincial team North Harbour. Lomu’s return to top play after a life-threatening kidney ailment began and ended in a benefit match for former England captain Martin Johnston at Twickenham in June.
The Federal Reserve on Tuesday lifted United States borrowing costs for the 10th time running to guard against inflationary pressure and signalled it would stay on a tightening course. As expected, the US central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee said it was taking the headline Fed funds rate to 3,5%.
Nagasaki paid tribute to its dead yesterday, 60 years to the day after the city was levelled by an atomic bomb in one of the last acts of World War II. Politicians and survivors of the bomb that killed an estimated 80 000 people after it exploded above the city on August 9 1945 laid wreaths to the victims in a ceremony at the city’s peace memorial park.
Sanlam on Wednesday announced its intention to acquire all of the issued ordinary shares of African Life Assurance. African Life will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sanlam and the listing of its ordinary shares on the JSE will be terminated.
Casey Sheehan did not want to go to Iraq, but he did not want to let down his buddies. So despite his mother’s offer to whisk him away to Canada or run his leg over with a car, off he went. Less than two weeks later, the 24-year-old from Zacaville, California, was dead, one of eight soldiers killed in an ambush near Baghdad.
Dana Reeve, the widow of Superman actor Christopher Reeve, has been diagnosed with lung cancer, she announced on Tuesday. Reeve (44) who spent nine years caring for her husband after he was paralysed in a riding accident, said she had decided to disclose her illness because a tabloid newspaper was about to print the story
Thieves spent three months tunneling under a busy city avenue in northeastern Brazil to break into a Central Bank vault and pull off one of the world’s biggest heists. The robbery netted 156-million reals (,8-million) from a vault at the Central Bank in the city of Fortaleza, 2 500km northeast of São Paulo.
A recent survey has uncovered mixed feelings about HIV vaccines. One of the discoveries was that several people believe an HIV vaccine already exists.
The monkey temples on the resort island of Bali are a perfect photo opportunity for tourists feeding bananas to man’s closest relative, but most visitors are likely unaware they’re at risk of contracting a little-known retrovirus recently found to jump from primates to people in Asia.
Rescuers on Wednesday recovered the body of one miner from a flooded southern China coal shaft as hopes of finding 122 still trapped underground faded, state media reported. Authorities also suspended two mayors who had jurisdiction over
mines in the area, the official Xinhua news agency said.