Coca-Cola said on Tuesday it will reduce the amount of water used to produce its beverages and put more effort into recycling the water it uses in manufacturing. Coke, which along with its bottlers used 290-billion litres of water for beverage production last year, said it would make a -million commitment to the WWF.
United States hotel heiress and Hollywood socialite Paris Hilton, known for her non-stop partying and high-society romps, has begun serving a 23-day jail sentence for violating her probation, according to prison records. An entry at the Los Angeles County Inmate Information Centre said Hilton (26) had been processed into the jail system and given a booking number.
Nicole Castrale chased down the world’s number one player for her first United States LPGA Tour victory, beating Lorena Ochoa with a par on the first hole of a play-off Sunday in the Ginn Tribute. Castrale closed with a one-under 71 to match Ochoa (74) at nine-under 279 on the River Towne Country Club course.
Jack Kevorkian, the United States assisted suicide advocate dubbed ”Dr Death”, stepped free from a Michigan prison on Friday with few words but plans for a media blitz to support his cause. Kevorkian (79) who says he assisted in about 130 deaths, had served eight years for a second-degree murder conviction.
Despite pressure for Sudan to accept a force of 23 000 troops and police, a African Union committee has not approved plans sent by the United Nations. Sudan has been sent an copy of details drawn up recently but a submission cannot happen until the AU’s Peace and Security Committee gives its consent.
Jack Kevorkian, the assisted suicide advocate known as ”Dr Death,” steps out of prison on Friday and back into the debate over whether the terminally ill have a right to end their lives with medical aid. Kevorkian (79) is scheduled to be released from a prison in Coldwater, Michigan, after serving eight years for murder.
United States President George Bush said on Thursday he would urge major industrialised nations at a summit next week to join a new global framework for fighting climate change after the Kyoto Protocol lapses. ”The US will work with other nations to establish a new framework on greenhouse-gas emissions for when the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012,” he said.
Microsoft will unveil a coffee-table-shaped ”surface computer” on Wednesday in a major step towards Bill Gates’s view of a future where the mouse and keyboard are replaced by more natural interactions using voice, pen and touch. Microsoft said it will manufacture the machine itself and sell it initially to corporate customers.
President George Bush has chosen Robert Zoellick, a former United States trade representative, to replace Paul Wolfowitz as president of the World Bank, a senior official said on Tuesday. Bush plans to announce his selection on Wednesday and expects the bank’s board to accept it, the administration official said.
The United States slapped fresh sanctions on Sudan over the Darfur conflict on Tuesday as it seeks a tough new United Nations Security Council resolution to punish Khartoum. US President George Bush expressed frustration with the Sudanese government over the plight of Darfur civilians.
The United States plans to slap fresh sanctions on Sudan over the Darfur conflict on Tuesday and seek a tough new United Nations Security Council resolution punishing Khartoum, top US officials said. China, one of Sudan’s main allies, criticised the sanctions even before they were officially announced by President George Bush.
The United States will slap fresh sanctions on Sudan over the Darfur conflict on Tuesday and seek a tough new United Nations Security Council resolution punishing Khartoum, top US officials said late on Monday. The Darfur conflict has cost at least 200Â 000 lives and forced more than two million people from their homes, according to the United Nations.
CNN will give away access to an online video service that now costs (about R177) a year, becoming the latest news organisation to revamp its revenue model on the web. Spokesperson Jennifer Martin said the change, effective July 1, reflects lower costs associated with delivering bandwidth-intensive video.
Computer-game makers and industry analysts agree that the Wii is trouncing rival video-game consoles due to a captivating blend of ease, fun, family, friends and affordability. Demand for Wii consoles has outpaced supply since they debuted in November last year.
Charles Nelson Reilly, the Tony Award winner who later became known for his ribald appearances on the Tonight Show and various game shows, has died. He was 76. Reilly died on May 27 in Los Angeles of complications from pneumonia, his partner, Patrick Hughes, told the New York Times.
Paul Newman’s career has included winning an Oscar, establishing a food company to fund charities, and operating a restaurant, but he said this week he is retiring from acting. ”I’m not able to work any more as an actor at the level that I would want to,” the Hollywood star (82) told ABC News.
A fierce battle is under way this weekend to rescue a proposed global climate agreement in time for the Group of Eight (G8) summit in a fortnight’s time in Germany, after sources close to the talks said Washington appeared to be edging away from outright rejection of moves to halt rising world temperatures.
The lesson plan is called ”Artificial Unintelligence”, but it is written more like a comic book than a syllabus for a serious computer-science class. ”Singing, dancing and drawing polygons may be nifty, but any self-respecting evil roboticist needs a few more tricks in the repertoire if they are going to take over the world,” read the day’s instructions.
The United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) have agreed on a highly mobile, robust joint force to help protect civilians and restore security to the Darfur region — but Sudan still holds the key to its deployment. The report proposes tripling the number of peacekeepers now in Darfur with an AU-UN ”hybrid” force of at least 23 000 soldiers.
United States President George Bush on Thursday warned of heavy fighting and bloodshed to come in the next ”critical” weeks and months in Iraq, and told Iran it faces tougher sanctions over its nuclear defiance. In a White House news conference, Bush also said that US forces would pull out of Iraq if asked to do so by the Baghdad government.
Seven insurers have agreed to pay an additional -billion to developers of the World Trade Centre, resolving all outstanding claims from the September 11 2001 attacks and speeding redevelopment of the site, New York State officials announced on Wednesday.
California denied parole on Wednesday to Charles Manson, one of America’s most notorious mass murderers, in his 11th bid for release. California’s Board of Parole Hearings said that Manson (72) ”continues to pose an unreasonable danger to others and may still bring harm to anyone he would come in contact with”.
MySpace is yielding to demands by American state justice officials that it expose sexual predators that may be prowling the youth-oriented social networking website. The move ends a stand-off between MySpace and top prosecutors from eight American states.
The United States House of Representatives passed legislation on Tuesday to combat the criminal use of internet spyware and other scams aimed at stealing personal information from computer users. Spyware, said the Bill’s Democratic sponsor, Representative Zoe Lofgren, ”is one of the biggest threats to consumers on the internet”.
Salesforce.com’s stock price climbed by more than 4% on Monday in response to a report that the online software pioneer is poised to team up with internet search leader Google in a double-barrelled attack on Microsoft. A formal announcement between the two companies is expected in early June.
Three journalists for the New York Times who were arrested by the Ethiopian military and held for five days have been released, the newspaper reported on Tuesday. The paper said the journalists, including Nairobi bureau chief Jeffrey Gettleman, were detained on May 16 in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia, near the Somali border.
Never had time to read Moby Dick and want something weightier than spam to read on your Blackberry on the way to work? A new website is offering to send classic books in bite-size installments to your handheld device or e-mail every morning before you go to work, or whenever you want, for free.
United States senator Joe Biden said that he would commit US forces immediately to stop militia in Sudan’s Darfur region as long as there were reports of genocide. Biden said on Monday that in his personal opinion nations had at ”some point to cede their sovereignty” if they engaged in genocide.
Researchers have figured out how to spot genetic changes in the body that may help determine whether a tumor is shrinking or a drug is working. They likened their discovery to a device featured on Star Trek that, when passed over the body, revealed the molecular secrets within.
A long time ago, in a Hollywood era far, far away, the story of an intergalactic battle between good and evil took the world by storm — and changed the movie industry forever. Thirty years after Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader and Han Solo were introduced to the world in Star Wars on May 25 1977, the seismic impact of George Lucas’s science-fiction saga is still being felt.
A day after Paul Wolfowitz resigned as World Bank president under an ethics cloud, the United States faced the tough task of healing rifts with Europeans and satisfying calls that his successor be picked on merit, not just nationality. Wolfowitz’s resignation on Thursday followed pressure by European opponents.
Meteorologists have spent decades improving predictions on where a hurricane could hit — warnings that potentially drive millions of people from their homes. Now, they aim to determine better how powerful those storms actually will be. Forecasters are debuting their new hurricane weather research and forecasting model next month.