Turkish internet users have been blocked from accessing sites on the Wordpress.com hosting service. A court in Istanbul ordered the website be blocked after lawyers complained that a number of blogs hosted by Wordpress were libellous of Islamic creationist author Adnan Oktar.
A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.5 hit the southern Philippines on Monday, the United States Geological Survey said. Mylene Carols of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology said the quake was felt along the east coast of the island, but there were no reports of damage or injuries.
Political parties and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) have called for a probe into new claims against Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, but the Presidency says it will not act unless evidence is produced.
Billionaire hotelier Leona Helmsley, who famously declared ”only little people pay taxes” and later went to prison for tax evasion, died on Monday at the age of 87, her publicist said. Helmsley died of heart failure at her summer house in Greenwich, Connecticut, publicist Howard Rubenstein said.
Billionaire hotelier Leona Helmsley, who famously declared ”only little people pay taxes” and later went to prison for tax evasion, died on Monday at the age of 87, her publicist said. Helmsley died of heart failure at her summer house in Greenwich, Connecticut, publicist Howard Rubenstein said.
Suspected sex blogger Juan Duval Uys of Kroonstad on Monday made his second appearance in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court, where he faces a charge of crimen injuria reportedly relating to an allegation that he had stated on a blog that a City of Cape Town mayoral committee member had used Uys’s services as a male prostitute.
Hurricane Dean skirted the Cayman Islands on Monday and raced toward Mexico’s resort-dotted Caribbean coast, where tens of thousands of tourists fled what could become a mammoth category-five storm. The airport at Mexico’s biggest resort, Cancun, was packed with departing tourists on Monday.
Drug laws considered outdated are being reviewed in order to improve the state’s response to drug and substance abuse, Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya said on Monday. The Prevention of and Treatment of Substance Abuse Bill will replace the Prevention and Treatment of Drug Dependency Act of 1992.
South Africa is an over-advantaged partner in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Monday. He was speaking in Sandton at a conference of business leaders from the SADC region, where a survey was also released on obstacles when doing business in the region.
The African National Congress’s national working committee has expressed "deep concern and outrage" at the latest reports in the <i>Sunday Times</i> newspaper on Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, calling them "nothing more than character assassination".