A German woman who was held up and robbed in her Berlin apartment earlier this month was astonished to see the thief waiting to board her flight from Antalya in Turkey to the German capital, police said on Tuesday. The 37-year-old woman telephoned her husband who alerted the authorities, police spokesperson Joerg Kunzendorf said.
Somalia’s dominant Islamic movement on Tuesday launched intensive military training for hundreds of its gunmen under a plan to create instruments of statehood in areas where it holds sway. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, a hard-line cleric who heads the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia, said trained Islamic forces will disarm civilians and restore law and order.
Five labour leaders were found not guilty of public violence by the Pongola Regional Court on Tuesday after they were arrested at a demonstration at the Swaziland border in April, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said.
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) denied reports on Tuesday that Major Mmathabo Zikalala, wife of the head of news at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), Snuki Zikalala, was being investigated for refusing to do her duty.
A Shoprite employee appeared in court in Butterworth on Tuesday after supporters of a strike stopped a shopper and forced her to drink the fish oil she had just bought. Captain Jackson Manatha said the 19-year-old woman from Ngqamakhwe had visited the Shoprite store in Butterworth on Monday.
Iran delivered its response on Tuesday to a deal aimed at ending a nuclear stand-off — but it had already signalled it was likely to defy the international community and refuse to freeze sensitive atomic work. Tehran’s written response was delivered to representatives of the five permanent United Nations Security Council members plus Germany.
Police divers recovered the body of an eight-year-old child from a farm dam near Odendaalsrus on Tuesday. Captain Rosa Benade said police divers from Welkom were called earlier in the day to help with a search for the eight-year-old child on the farm Weltevrede in the Odendaalsrus district.
Former provincial and Springbok rugby player James Dalton will go on trial on October 12 after the case against him was postponed by the Hatfield Community Court in Pretoria on Tuesday. The 33-year-old former hooker is accused of malicious damage to property and discharging a firearm in public.
Investigators seized computers and documents from Israeli President Moshe Katsav’s residence and will question him about allegations that he coerced a former employee into having sex with him, the police said on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Micky Rosenfeld said investigators visited Katsav’s Jerusalem residence on Monday.
Iran said on Tuesday it is ready to start immediately what it called "serious" talks with six world powers about their offer to defuse Tehran’s nuclear stand-off with the West. Chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani delivered Iran’s formal response to the offer at a meeting with foreign envoys from the six world powers in Tehran.