South Africa, now in its first ”teenager” year, has to abide by the tried and tested values in the Constitution to weather the turbulent years ahead successfully, former president FW de Klerk said on Friday. Addressing a conference at Sun City, he said 2007 might well determine the future for the next 30 or 40 years.
A series of blasts hit the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Friday, witnesses said, a day after Ugandan peacekeepers started arriving in the country. Residents said they heard mortar bombs being fired in the direction of Mogadishu’s port.
At least 14 Iraqi police officers have gone missing and an al Qaeda-linked group on Friday showed pictures of 18 men it said had been kidnapped to avenge the alleged rape of a woman last month. The al Qaeda-linked group said in an internet statement it had kidnapped 18 men working for the Interior Ministry in Diyala province, north of Baghdad.
We <b>review</b> some the latest DVDs on the shelves.
Two edited extracts from a catalogue for an upcoming retrospective look at the conflicted world of the late artist, writes Sherene Timol Seedat.
Playing against type is what keeps things interesting for Judi Dench — and her fans. Matt Wolf spoke to her.
You can measure the hallucinatory experience of living in the United States according to a range of decisions that don’t matter, writes David Thomson.
Arnold Tsunga, chairperson of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition, on Thursday joined other politicians and civil-society representatives in calling for an end to the country’s "smart genocide" where, instead of blood and bullets, there is a systematic eradication of human dignity, he said.
A Florida teenager finally took a long breath, uninterrupted by the hiccups that had plagued her for five weeks. The hiccups stopped at about 5pm local time on Wednesday, the <i>St Petersburg Times</i> daily reported Thursday. "Jennifer Mee had a few more spasms, but then she stopped and took her first uninterrupted breaths since … January 23," the paper said.
The New South Wales Waratahs and the Western Force played out a 16-16 draw in the fifth round of the Super 14 at the Sydney Football Stadium on Friday. The Waratahs had a last-minute chance to win the Australian derby when they were awarded a penalty near the right touchline, but replacement Sam Norton-Knight took a quick tap and lost possession.