The two main parties in Lesotho were running neck-and-neck in crucial elections aimed at cementing democracy in the tiny, famine-struck African kingdom.
Drug taking is rife in professional tennis, a report in a US magazine claimed on the eve of the start of the French Open.
A China Airlines flight to Hong Kong with 225 people on board crashed on Saturday afternoon into the Taiwan Strait. There were no immediate reports of survivors.
Mozambique’s Transport Minister Tomas Salomao said 106 deaths have been confirmed in a train wreck outside the capital Maputo on Saturday, revising downward an earlier death toll of 150.
Thousands of Basotho thronged around polling stations waiting to vote in Lesotho’s parliamentary election long before the polls opened at 7am on Saturday.
Any government amnesty policy must apply across the board, argues. The government’s moves to start pardoning failed amnesty applicants will come as no surprise to those who have followed the TRC process — and particularly the stance of President Mbeki.
A wrangle has erupted between De Beers and the workers in Koffiefontein mine in the Free State over the company’s decision to award lucrative shares to nominated employees only when it was delisted in June last year.
Americans are at last asking whether their government did enough to protect them on September 11. Normal service has resumed. Republicans are once more hurling abuse at Democrats, Democrats are slamming Republicans.
Negative attitudes toward sexual assault survivors hamper specialised treatment. Models of care for sexual assault survivors who access the public health system will feature in hearings on gender-based violence and the health sector in Parliament.
The translocation of young elephant bulls has taught scientists the value of the animals’ social structure. In 1994 rhinos were being found dead in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve with their horns ripped out, their backs broken and their bodies mutilated.