AT least 65 Maoist rebels were killed in clashes with security personnel in two western districts on Thursday, said Nepal’s minister of state for home Devendra Raj Kandel.
THE dissected and preserved remains of the so-called ”Hottentot Venus” arrived in South Africa from France early Friday, nearly 200 years after the African woman was first put on display in Europe as a sexual freak.
A MANHUNT is underway in sugar cane fields near the Mtunzini toll plaza along the N2 highway in KwaZulu-Natal for a gang of robbers who attacked and robbed a security guard vehicle on Friday morning, police said.
THE Appeal Court in Bloemfontein has reserved judgement in the case of Siphiwe Bethuel Lombo, who is suing the ANC for R6-million, SABC radio reported on Friday.
Blatter to visit North Korea in last ditch world cup bid Fifa president Sepp Blatter will visit North Korea next week in a last ditch bid to find a symbolic role for the isolated state at the World Cup, Asian soccer officials said on Friday.
THE Johannesburg based children’s sanctuary, Cotlands, on Friday added its voice to the call for the immediate distribution of the antiretroviral drug, nevirapine, to HIV-positive pregnant women.
A 29-YEAR-old woman was gang raped by six gunmen in Soweto on Thursday night after she was kidnapped and robbed, police reported on Friday.
Prostitutes at a well-known Perth brothel were left reeling from exhaustion following an influx of United States sailors stressed from their time spent on duty in the war against terror. New Zealand-born madam Mary-Anne Kenworthy said she was forced to close the doors of her Langtrees brothel in Perth on Wednesday because her girls were […]
SENIOR counsel for the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), Gilbert Marcus, is to address the Constitutional Court on Friday on whether judges can make orders which change government policy. This will take up at least the morning of the second day of the government’s appeal against a Pretoria High Court judgment ordering the Health Department to […]
FORMER US President Jimmy Carter met in Atlanta late on Thursday with representatives of the Cuban exile community ahead of his historic trip to the Communist-ruled island. The trip, scheduled for May 12-17, will make Carter the most prominent American who has travelled to Cuba since its 1959 revolution. Representatives of the exile community asked […]