Oxford University

/ 13 November 2007

Apartheid-era minister Piet Koornhof dead at 82

An apartheid-era Cabinet minister and a former ambassador to the United States, Piet Koornhof, died in his home town of Stellenbosch on Monday afternoon. He was 82. Koornhof’s son Johan said on Tuesday afternoon that his father had been a ”passionate” man who had a ”great gusto for life”.

By Sapa Author, Mail Guardian Online Reporter and Sapa Afp

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/ 10 November 2007

Supermodel mistakes politician for plumber

Britain’s main opposition leader, David Cameron, was initially delighted that supermodel Kate Moss asked for his phone number — until he realised she thought he could help her with her drains. The Conservative Party leader said in an interview to be broadcast on Saturday that he met Moss at a charity bash recently.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 19 October 2007

Top scientist cancels UK book tour after race row

A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who reportedly claimed black people are less intelligent than white people has pulled out of a British book tour and gone home, his publicist said on Friday. James Watson won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 for his part in discovering the structure of DNA.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 4 September 2007

Don’t ban Facebook, British employers told

Employers should allow their workers to befriend, chat and ”poke” each other through online networking sites while at work, Britain’s largest labour federation says. The Trades Union Congress says a ban on sites such as Facebook and MySpace ”may be something of an overreaction”.

By Raphael G Satter

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/ 20 July 2007