SEVENTY-percent of babies born in the State sector to HIV-positive mothers did not need the antiretroviral nevirapine, the Constitutional Court heard on Thursday.
ONE of the world’s smallest democracies, with just 800 registered voters, Thursday elected a new prime minister in a vote in its 20-seat parliament.
FOUR men accused of the kidnap and murder of US reporter Daniel Pearl were transferred to a new trial venue under heavy security on Thursday following fears of a terrorist attack, officials said.
VIETNAMESE President Tran Duc Luong left on Thursday for a four-day official trip to North Korea aimed at bolstering ties between the two communist states.
ONE word trips easily off the tongue in this mediaeval town on the river Rhone in southern France: Pourri. Rotten.
A MAGISTRATE’S court has freed from police custody three journalists arrested this week for alleged ”abuse of journalistic privilege” while it decides their fate.
BRITAIN’S Prince Charles is to visit Transylvania on Friday, two weeks after the last surviving descendant of Count Dracula advertised for a noble English heir to carry on the line made famous by his blood-sucking ancestor.
MORE than 1,2-million Zambians are suffering from hunger, the result of a devastating famine in the southern African country, a World Food Programme (WFP) official said on Thursday.
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SOUTH AFRICAN space tourist Mark Shuttleworth took his compatriots on an an on-air tour of the International Space Station on Tuesday, Russian NTV television reported.