The World Car of the Year honours went to the Mazda2, which has just been named as the South African Car of the Year too. Other finalists included the Ford Mondeo and the Mercedes-Benz C-Class. There were an initial entry list of 39 new vehicles from...

Arthur Hickman’s discovery on Google Earth of what is almost certainly a rare meteorite impact crater in remote Western Australia has earned him both bragging and naming rights. Measuring 260 metres wide and up to 30 metres deep, the divot is...

Yes, it’s true. Bin Laden has let the cat out of the bag. Pope Benedict XVI is on a crusade, in fact, he’s leading it. But it’s not a crusade in the military sense like the retaliations to Islamic jihad nearly a thousand years ago. No,...

The phrase “The customer is always right” was originally coined by Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founder of Selfridge’s department store in London in 1909, and is typically used by businesses to: (1.) Convince customers that they will get good...

The Iraq war has entered its sixth year with thousands of protesters in US expressing their opposition. However, Iraqis seem to feel little for the anniversary. On the other hand, the world seems to have very little to believe the sentiments running...

As a newspaperman I have often felt what I do is an exercise in futility. A clerical job at best, as far removed from people’s issues as a Mandal is from Malabar Hill. Do we really care to dig what cookie-cutter corporate types rubbish as infra-dig?

Firefox 3 generally consumes less than half of the memory used by Firefox 2.0.0.12. Firefox 3 is also snappier and more responsive when switching between tabs and performing other operations that typically lag in Firefox 2.0.0.12 when the browser is...

Devout Algerians will now be able to strike the balance between their need for internet, a must-have in today’s world, and doing that in a more friendly atmosphere through the country’s first-ever woman-only café.

The search giant had developed an extremely effective way of searching for pages on the internet, Tim Berners-Lee said, but that ability paled in comparison to what could be achieved on the “web of the future”, which he said would allow any...

Haile said he will not compete in the marathon at the Beijing Olympics because China’s air pollution would pose an unacceptable risk to his health and future career. In a major blow for the Chinese authorities, who have spent vast sums of money trying...