Pioneering South African heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard ... The operation made Barnard, son of a poor Christian missionary, an overnight celebrity. He studied medicine at the University of ...

"On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned." That's how Dr. Christiaan Barnard recalled events in December of 1967, when he became the first ...

The Briton broke a bone in his left hand following a crash in first practice ahead of last weekend's Monaco E-Prix, having hit the barrier into Sainte Devote. The injury took place to the same ...