Gay condemns Bolt to first defeat in two years

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) -- World record holder and Olympic champion Usain Bolt crashed to his first defeat in two years on Friday when America's Tyson Gay won their eagerly-awaited 100m clash at the Diamond League meeting.

Gay clocked 9.84sec to edge Bolt, who was second in 9.97sec, while Trinidad's Richard Thompson took third in 10.10sec.

"It feels great to beat Usain but deep down inside I know he is not 100 percent," said Gay, the second fastest man in the history of the event.

"I look forward to beating him when he is 100 percent."

Gay, celebrating his first win

New York’s Empire State Building looses to 15 Penn Plaza

The new 67 storey skyscraper will dominate the Apple’s skyline Zoom Image

The new skyscraper that has been planned for the city will be known as the 15 Penn Plaza. This building will be a 67 storey skyscraper and it will be located just two blocks away from the city’s tallest building; The Empire State building.

The building is set to be 1,190 feet tall which will be just short of the Empire State building which stands at 1,454 feet. The empire state building has been the tallest

New York’s Empire State Building looses to 15 Penn Plaza

The new 67 storey skyscraper will dominate the Apple’s skyline Zoom Image

The new skyscraper that has been planned for the city will be known as the 15 Penn Plaza. This building will be a 67 storey skyscraper and it will be located just two blocks away from the city’s tallest building; The Empire State building.

The building is set to be 1,190 feet tall which will be just short of the Empire State building which stands at 1,454 feet. The empire state building has been the tallest

CAMEROON: Soaring child malnutrition in north

Photo: Reinnier Kazé/IRIN Health workers in the Far North region of Cameroon say malnutrition cases and deaths are on the rise

KOUSSERI, 27 August 2010 (IRIN) - Northern Cameroon, as in much of Africa's western Sahel band, has unusually high child malnutrition this lean season between harvests - high even for an impoverished region where poor nutrition is common and most of the five million people lack access to safe water and sanitation.



Six children died from malnutrition in Kousseri hospital, northern Cameroon, in July alone. Tending to 23 children at the hospital's therapeutic feeding centre, centre director Fanta Abba Adam told IRIN: "We don't generally have this many deaths."



"We are overwhelmed by cases of malnutrition," Mahamat Ousman, a local Health Ministry official told IRIN. He said workers from health centres throughout the district of Kousseri generally come to the main hospital for supplies once a month, but since June

US sales of existing homes plunge 27% in July, lowest level in ten years

End of tax credits is blamed for the heavy drop in sales Zoom Image

The main reason for the drop was the end of tax credits designed to boost sales, the body said. Apprehension about weak housing figures pushed Wall Street lower in early trading and confirmation of the record low sales in the form of the NAR report sent shares down further.

The main Dow Jones index closed down 134 points, or 1.3%, at 10,040.45.

The NAR presents monthly sales figures as an annualised rate. This represents

SWAZILAND: Trade in albino body parts moving south

Photo: Mercedes Sayagues/PlusNews Albino children are being targetted

MBABANE, 25 August 2010 (IRIN) - The recent killing of two albino Swazi children within a few days of each other is raising fears that the practice of murdering people with the genetically inherited condition to sell their body parts for "muti" (medicine) is migrating southwards.



Incidents of albinos being dismembered have been well-documented in Tanzania and Burundi, among other countries, in a trade driven by the belief that those suffering from albinism - caused by the body's inability to produce the melanin pigment that helps the skin protect itself from the sun's damaging ultra violet rays - have a special potency when included in concoctions that claim to bestow almost everything from political power and wealth to curing HIV/AIDS.



Last week Banele Nxumalo, 11, was shot and carried away by a group of masked gunmen next to the Siguduma River in southern Swaziland's Shisweleni Region, in front of 20 adults and children. Her decapitated body was discovered a few hours later. The killing came a few days after another albino child of

Gay condemns Bolt to first defeat in two years

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) -- World record holder and Olympic champion Usain Bolt crashed to his first defeat in two years on Friday when America's Tyson Gay won their eagerly-awaited 100m clash at the Diamond League meeting.

Gay clocked 9.84sec to edge Bolt, who was second in 9.97sec, while Trinidad's Richard Thompson took third in 10.10sec.

"It feels great to beat Usain but deep down inside I know he is not 100 percent," said Gay, the second fastest man in the history of the event.

"I look forward to beating him when he is 100 percent."

Gay, celebrating his first win