engulfing
his party. The party's treasurer is under investigation, and there have been suggestions party funds may have been used to fund expenses of Mr Bossi's family. He denies any wrongdoing, and says he's resigning for the good of the movement.
Scientists have expressed concern that one of the world's biggest killers, malaria, is changing in ways that may make the disease effectively untreatable. New data suggest that drug-resistant forms of the
parasite
responsible for malaria have emerged on the Thai-Burma border, 800km away from the sites in Cambodia where it was first detected three years ago. Writing in the medical journal The Lancet, the researchers say that if these parasites are found in other areas of the world, eliminating malaria might prove impossible.
The designer of one of the world's most famous and enduring sports cars, the Porsche 911, has died. Ferdinand Alexander Porsche was known to his colleagues as FA. Board Owner reports.
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche fathered one of the longest-running and most successful models in the history of sports cars, as well as a design icon. With its sloping roof, long hood and noisy rear-mounted engine, the Porsche 911 still carries distinctly recognisable elements from the first model introduced in 1963. Describing his design philosophy, Mr Porsche said that a product that was coherent in form required no
embellishments
, as it was enhanced by the purity of its form. His design career did have a slow start though as he was dismissed from the Ulm School of Design because of doubts over his talent.