OSCAR-winner Jamie Foxx was immortalised on Hollywood’s “Walk of Fame” last week becoming the 2 347th celebrity to have a star bearing his name laid on the sidewalk. Foxx, winner […]

OJ Simpson was freed from a Las Vegas jail on Wednesday and quickly left town after a judge granted the former American football star US$125 000 bail on charges he […]

Dusty Miller IT’S over a year since Taverna Athena re-opened at Kensington, moving from the wrong end of The Avenues (behind Holiday Inn) to premises vacated by Ma (more…)

IF you are in Sudan it is a “missed call”. In Ethiopia it is a “miskin” or a “pitiful” call. In other parts of Africa it is a case of […]

THE following rules for the practice are extracted by Reuters from a forthcoming paper on the subject by researcher Jonathan Donner: l“The (more…)

A SET of pearls once belonging to Marie Antoinette and taken to Britain by a friend for safekeeping will go on sale in December, and are expected to fetch up […]

Dusty Miller IF I were a woman and at least 25 years younger I‘d start to worry as, for the past month or so, I’ve had an insatiable and frequent […]

AN abridged version of King Lear and excerpts from another three Shakespearean plays feature in a new production from Reps Theatre running in early October. Brush Up Your Shakespeare will […]

TWO widows of a Swazi man who remains unburied nearly five years after his death because of a chieftaincy dispute have appealed for an end to the affair. Still officially […]

A COURT in the US state of California has refused to restore custody of her two children to singer Britney Spears. Instead, Spears was granted rights to visit the children. […]