A stampede in Zambia killed 12 soccer fans and injured many others after a match between the home team and Congo Brazaville late on Saturday. Copperbelt police chief Antonnell Mutentwa told Reuters 46 soccer fans were injured and admitted in hospital in the copper mining town bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo.
About 60 fleeing Taliban guerrillas were confirmed dead after their boat sank in a river in southern Afghanistan, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday. ”According to reports we received, all of them on board were Taliban and were killed,” Defence Ministry spokesperson General Mohammad Zahir Azimi told reporters.
World number one Lorena Ochoa finished with bogeys on three of the last six holes but still kept a three-shot lead after Saturday’s third round of the LPGA Ginn Tribute. Ochoa stood on 11-under par 205 after 54 holes with American Nicole Castrale three strokes back in second.
Three metro cops who apparently flouted procedure by removing Ekurhuleni metro police boss Robert McBride from the scene of his accident are now suing him. The three, Stanley Segathevan, Patrick Johnstone and Ithumeleng Koko, are suing their boss and the Ekurhuleni metro police department for R4,5-million.
A suicide car bomber killed 10 people and wounded 30 in a busy market in a volatile region north-east of Baghdad on Sunday, police said. The bomber targeted a convoy of police vehicles as it drove through a market area in the town of Balad Ruz, about 50km south-east of Diyala province’s capital Baquba.
International Cricket Council president Percy Sonn, who died last weekend following complications after undergoing minor colon surgery, was laid to rest in Cape Town on Saturday. Hundreds of people gathered at St George’s cathedral in the city centre for a funeral service.
For some time, there had been signs — if you cared to read such things — that Lindsay Lohan’s life was about to take a very public turn for the worse. Early last month, she appeared on former jailbird Martha Stewart’s TV show, wearing a Fifties throwback cocktail dress and whipping up a tray of cream puffs.
Anti-terrorism agents who foiled a plot to blow up fuel tanks at New York’s JFK airport arrested three men on Saturday and were searching for a fourth, all described as ”al-Qaeda wannabes”.
A Butterworth man remained ”fast asleep” while three men took turns raping his girlfriend in his bedroom early on Saturday morning, Eastern Cape police said. The 22-year-old woman allegedly woke up and saw three men in the room where she was sleeping with her boyfriend who was allegedly ”very drunk” at around 3am.
United States Defence Secretary Robert Gates declined to comment on Sunday about Friday’s reported US naval strike on targets in Somalia, saying it was possibly an ongoing operation. ”I think that’s possibly an ongoing operation and I’m not going to talk about it,” Gates told a news briefing on the sidelines of an Asian security conference.