I was with Ali G the other day. I had collected him from the airport as he landed from Kazakhstan, and he was carrying a magazine with its title "i" turned upside down so it looked like an exclamation mark. Nifty. On the cover stood four young, black people in designer suits. The headline read: "The Colour of Money". He informed me that this was "breaking news", in a Kazakh accent — charming.
Kevin Pietersen has been given an opportunity to make the most of the absence of his Ashes rivals by starring for England in the triangular one day series with Australia and Bangladesh. Hard-hitting Pietersen came to prominence by scoring three hundreds during England’s 4-1 winter one-day series defeat in South Africa.
Not only is Australia ruling Test and one-day cricket but its cricketing culture is spreading throughout the world through its coaches. Greg Chappell and Tom Moody have recently taken to four the number of Australians coaching international teams.
Key figures from the Watergate era, closely involved in events that culminated in the 1974 resignation of president Richard Nixon, blasted late on Tuesday a former top FBI official who leaked information about White House wrongdoings and brought the scandal to a head.
The scandal began with a botched burglary that initially attracted little attention but ended two years later with the first and only resignation of a president. To many Americans, Watergate is a dimming memory, if that. A majority of living Americans were not yet born or were children when President Richard Nixon was forced from office in 1974.
A new ”scramble for Africa” is taking place among the world’s big powers, who are tapping into the continent for its oil and diamonds. While sub-Saharan Africa is the object of the West’s charitable concern, billions of dollars’ worth of natural resources are being removed from it.
One of the greatest political and journalistic mysteries of the past century may have been solved after a former FBI official outed himself as ”Deep Throat”, the source of the Washington Post‘s explosive revelations about president Richard Nixon’s Watergate cover-up.
Age offers little protection against Aids — children are often the disease’s unwitting victims. Yet for the young ones in Southern Africa, treatment is only just beginning. But the long-term health implications are still largely unknown while lack of child-specific dosages presents another major challenge.
International agencies, public health experts and Aids activists have dismissed the Indian government’s claim of a massive drop in new HIV infections between 2003 and 2004 as incorrect and misleading, according to reports on the <i>Science and Development Network</i>. India ranks second only to South Africa, which has 5,3-million HIV infections.
Staff at Afrikaans Sunday newspaper <i>Die Wêreld</i> have not been paid their salaries for May and unless a white knight is found, the paper will not be published this Sunday. <i>Die Wêreld</i> published its first issue in mid-April and has been moving towards being a fairly traditional tabloid.