Thousands of Romanian flood victims spent a fourth day in tents on hills overlooking the Danube on Thursday while hundreds more waited anxiously to see whether the river would inundate their communities. President Traian Basescu visited evacuees on Thursday in the southern county of Calarasi.
The World Bank said on Thursday it has clinched an interim deal with Chad to unblock frozen oil revenues owed to the impoverished African country. The global lender said the Chadian government has promised to adopt a new Budget law that will reserve 70% of its oil proceeds for poverty reduction.
Four times heavier than the Titanic and with decks big enough for 25 football pitches, the Freedom of the Seas is the world’s biggest cruiseliner, and yet as easy to manoeuvre as a zippy sports car, its captain insists. The vessel can accommodate 4 375 passengers and 1 365 crew.
Motorcyclists, ex-motorcyclists and wannabe motorcyclists are in for the treat of the year at the sixth annual Association of Motorcycle Importers and Distributors (Amid) motorcycle and quad lifestyle expo at Kyalami next weekend (May 5 to 7).
Renault may have needed a little goading in the form of unfavourable comparisons in Malcolm Kinsey’s annual reports on spares pricing, but the French company has reacted by reducing prices and improving availability of spares considerably.
Microsoft sparred with its rivals on Thursday about how much information it should give them to make servers more compatible as judges questioned both sides about what code could be divulged without giving away trade secrets. The software maker says it has the right to guard its valuable intellectual property.
President Thabo Mbeki has called on all South Africans to commit themselves to work together to help bring prosperity to the country. He told thousands of people attending national Freedom Day celebrations in Kimberley on Thursday that there are a number of key local government priorities that have to be addressed urgently.
A sister of Iraq’s new Sunni Arab vice-president was killed in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad on Thursday, police said. She died one day after her brother called for the Sunni-dominated insurgency to be crushed by force. In southern Iraq, a bomb hit an Italian military convoy on Thursday morning, killing four soldiers.
One of the co-founders of the Black Consciousness Movement, Strini Moodley, died at the age of 60 on Thursday morning after a brief illness, his family said in a statement. Moodley was convicted on terrorism charges in 1976 following the marathon South African Student Organisation and Black People’s Convention trial in 1976
The editor of a new gay and lesbian travel guide to Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia said on Thursday he hopes the book will foster more acceptance of homosexuality — which is outlawed in all three conservative South-East Asian nations.