‘Walk-in vagina’ attracts attention

 It lets out a high-pitched scream as you enter, then a sneering laugh. It's a walk-in vagina, a conceptual art installation that has South Africans wagging their fingers and scratching their heads.

When 30-year-old South African artist Reshma Chhiba was asked to produce artwork for a disused apartheid-era women's jail in Johannesburg, she wanted to make a statement about women's power.

A view of the art installation "Giant Walk-In Vagina"
 installed at a former women's prison by artist Reshma 
Chhiba in Johannesburg. Chhiba's installation is a a 
12-meter long tunnel made from red velvet and cotton.
Visitors to the tunnel experience the sounds of screaming
 and laughing, which are played inside.
AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER JOE

What she came up with was a talking “yoni”, or vagina in India's ancient language, Sanskrit.

“It's a screaming vagina within a space that once contained

Brain in a box

The thought of robots with brains is slowly becoming real courtesy of the Austrian Academy of Sciences where scientists have now reproduced the human brain from  embryonic stem cells in the laboratory.

Miniature "human brains" have been grown in a lab in a feat scientists hope will transform the understanding of neurological disorders.

The pea-sized structures reached the same level of development as in a nine-week-old foetus, but are incapable of thought.

The study, published in the journal Nature, has already been used to gain insight into rare diseases.

Neuroscientists have described the findings as astounding and fascinating.

The human brain is one of the most complicated structures in the universe.

Scientists at Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences have now reproduced some of

Funeral of a 'Party Animal' in Pretoria

girls dance at the funeral of their friend in Pretoria

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Vavi Suspended

CONGRESS of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) chief Zwelinzima Vavi was suspended on Wednesday night, as divided union bosses wielded the axe after a heated meeting to seal his future.

Cosatu’s action is likely to reverberate throughout the African National Congress (ANC)-led alliance, and could

Tsvangirai declares elections null and void

The Pime Minister of Zimbabwe Morgan Tssvangirai, said Thursday the election is “null and void” due to alleged violations in the voting process, but Mugabe has denied vote rigging.

Addressing a press conference, he said Wednesday’s election was heavily manipulated and did not meet regional or African election standards. A poll monitoring group that is not affiliated with the state also said the poll was compromised by a campaign to stop voters from casting ballots.

Mugabe has denied allegations of vote-rigging as a smear campaign by

Google launches internet-beaming balloons

Christchurch - Wrinkled and skinny at first, the translucent, jellyfish-shaped balloons that Google released this week from a frozen field in the heart of New Zealand's South Island hardened into shiny pumpkins as they rose into the blue winter skies above Lake Tekapo, passing the first big test of a lofty goal to get the entire planet online.

It was the culmination of 18 months' work on what Google calls Project Loon, in recognition of how wacky the idea may sound.

Developed in the secretive X lab that came up with a driverless car and web-surfing eyeglasses, the flimsy helium-filled inflatables beam the internet down to earth as they sail past on the wind.

Still in their experimental stage, the balloons were the first of thousands that Google's leaders eventually hope to launch 20km into the stratosphere in order to bridge the gaping digital divide between the world's 4.8 billion unwired

Dambudzo's letter to his girlfriend

DAMBUDZO WRITES TO SAMANTHA

Dear Samantha

... I think by now you have heard what happened when those hypocrites in administration chased me from their white university giving me an option between being sectioned or expelled. I chose the latter, a decision which shocked them out of their warped wits. I have forgiven them because together with you they thought as an African student from some remote Southern African country I was privileged for receiving tertiary education at Oxford, a learning institution they have overrated as a citadel of knowledge just like Cambridge or Harvard. It is such academic mad houses that keep on churning out arrogant, snobbish, hypocritical and pea-minded bastards who enter the world with the superior airs of holier-than-thou, we and them attitude calling themselves Doctors, Professors or any stupid titles to distance themselves other ordinary folks whom they look down on as dunces.

These idiots have done little in