Insurgents trying to attack African Union peacekeepers hit a restaurant in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, with a rocket-propelled grenade, killing at least nine people in the building, residents said on Thursday. They said two other people were killed in the clash between the insurgents and the peacekeepers on Wednesday.
An English police force faced a civil lawsuit on Thursday from a young woman who was punched five times by a police officer as he arrested her during a scuffle outside a nightclub last year. The South Yorkshire Police in northern England defended the conduct of the officer.
No Hout Bay ‘apartheid’ Your coverage of Hout Bay is simplistic and immoral. It is not an “apartheid” conflict, as you suggest, with racist, affluent whites on one side and poor, victimised black people on the other. It is about upholding the law and trying to find a humane and practical solution to unhealthy, overcrowded […]
Get Stratton back from Oz It is extraordinary that John Stratton’s South African attorney would make an urgent application in the high court to interdict the National Prosecuting Authority from pursuing an extradition request with the Australian authorities (February 23 ). Stratton may be a suspect in the Brett Kebble murder case, but this pales […]
Cyclones off the coast of Western Australia forced the shutdown on Thursday of almost half the country’s oil production as well as a major iron-ore export terminal, with more closures seen as two storms approach oil fields. Cyclone George was upgraded to a category-three storm on Thursday.
The Zambian government announced plans on Thursday to demolish illegal settlements throughout the country, an action expected to leave several thousands of people homeless. President Levy Mwanawasa’s Cabinet endorsed the plan to destroy illegal informal settlements that have mushroomed in urban areas recently.
Lisa Nowak was in the astronaut corps for a decade before she took her first and only space shuttle flight last summer during Discovery‘s 13-day trip to the International Space Station. It took only a half year from her return to Earth for her to lose her job as an astronaut.
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South African coach Mickey Arthur said his Cricket World Cup squad had been neither shaken nor stirred by the drama over a gas leak at the team’s hotel in Port of Spain on Wednesday. The Trinidad Hilton was evacuated at 8.15am after guests and staff were overcome with fumes that were later traced to a gas leak on the eighth floor of the 12-storey building.
Henrik Larsson produced a fairy-tale end to his brief but eventful Manchester United career on Wednesday as the Swedish legend scored to give the Red Devils a 1-0 win over Lille to put them into the Champions League quarterfinals. United clinched the last 16 clash 2-0 on aggregate. United’s joy, however, was not mirrored by Premiership rivals Arsenal.
The JSE was up across the board in noon trade on Thursday, lifted by stronger Asian markets and higher commodity prices. There was also an element of futures-buying related to next Thursday’s close-out, dealers said. By 12.05pm, the all-share and all-share industrial indices added 1,44% and 1,08% respectively.