SIPTU is hitting out at bosses of Greyhound Household after they said that workers' wages are "reasonable".

FORMER South African health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, whose AIDS policies drew international opprobrium, died yesterday after battling liver disease, SAPA news agency reported.

The English Open, due to be played at St Mellion in Cornwall on August 13-16 and again next season, has been affected by the economic downturn and will not now return to the European Tour until 2011.

South Africa came under withering attacks at the closing of the week-long global Aids conference yesterday, with some of the world’s leading Aids experts accusing the government of ignoring the epidemic and promoting “lunatic” prevention methods.

The United States today rejected outright a call by the UN chief at the International AIDS Conference for an €824.2m contribution in 2005 to the global fund that has become the centrepiece of United Nations efforts against the disease.

THE UN, former US President Bill Clinton, World Bank and the global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria have set up a joint plan to buy and distribute cheap, generic AIDS drugs in poor countries.