Authorities believe Bangladesh-based Islamic extremists may have been behind a pair of bombings that tore through a popular family restaurant and an outdoor arena in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Saturday, killing at least 42 people, Indian officials said on Sunday. The attacks were the latest in a series of bombings to hit India in the past year.
Storms slammed the rain-soaked United States Midwest and hundreds of thousands of people in the region were without power after their homes were battered by lashing winds and flooding rains. The National Weather Service confirmed multiple tornadoes touched down on Friday in areas north and west of Detroit.
Ruben Uriarte was a young boy growing up in northern California in the 1950s when he saw something strange up in the sky. "I thought it was a balloon, but it was so perfectly round, and it just remained motionless," he recalled on Saturday at the Bay Area UFO Expo in San Jose, California.
Fires tore through parched forests and swallowed villages across Greece, bearing down on villages near Ancient Olympia in the south a day after the government declared a nationwide state of emergency. More than 50 people were dead. ”We’re going to burn alive here,” one woman told Greek television from the village of Lambeti.
A man believed to have been the last person to see a boy before he was badly mutilated two weeks ago was found dead in Phela village in North West province on Friday, police said. The man’s body was found about 500m from the cattle post where he worked and where he last saw the boy.
A man was rescued on Saturday after he fell down a gorge on Table Mountain, shortly after an American tourist was rescued in the same spot, ER24 said on Saturday. ”In an action replay of today’s ‘slip and fall’, a second person fell in almost exactly the same spot,” said ER24 spokesperson Mark Stokoe.
A government assault on the finances of axed deputy minister of health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge has left her broke, the <i>Sunday Times</i> reported. She has been forced to accept money from her mother after her salary was docked to reclaim the cost of a trip to Spain, and now the government is making more financial demands.
In the beginning the Party created the Freedom Charter. The country was without reform and whiteness was upon the face of the mining deeps. And the spirit of the Party moved across foreign waters, waiting. And in 1994 the Party said let there be light, and there was light. And the Party saw the light, and that it was good.
For some time now there has been a sustained discourse on ”succession”. Because Thabo Mbeki is constitutionally prohibited from another term as president of the country, the person likely to succeed him must be ”identified” in advance in order to facilitate a smooth transition. Or so we are told, writes Monde Nkasawe.
It was an employee at the WPP advertising business who so succinctly categorised Google, the search engine, as a "frenemy". Nowhere is this ambiguous status more obvious than in the search engine’s relationship with newspapers. Google’s draining of the online ad market through the organisation of other people’s content infuriates the media, yet the power of the search engine to refer traffic to your website is undeniable.