Ten Israeli soldiers were killed and at least nine others were wounded when a Hezbollah rocket slammed into a group of reservists in northern Israel on Sunday, medics and Israeli media said. The attack on Kfar Giladi village was the deadliest Hezbollah rocket strike since war with Israel erupted on July 12.
South Africa opener Herschelle Gibbs scored 92 to put his team in a commanding position against Sri Lanka on the third day of the second Test on Sunday. South Africa, who hit 361 in the first innings and bowled Sri Lanka out for 321, reached tea on 161-4 to pad their lead to 201 runs.
Tens of thousands of Muslims demonstrated in several Indonesian cities on Sunday to protest ongoing Israeli military action, branding Israel and the United States the ”real terrorists”. Hard-line Islamic groups and women’s organisations rallied in several big Indonesian cities, denounced Israeli bombardments in Lebanon.
In nursing homes and college dorms, in crowded cities and spread-out suburbs, Americans confront an ailment with no single cause or cure. Some call it social isolation or disconnectedness. Often, it’s just plain loneliness. According to a new study documenting Americans’ shrinking circle of intimate friends, it is worsening.
The sudden resignation of campaigning Nigerian minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala last week is a blow to the credibility of the government and places a question mark over future economic reforms, Nigerian economists and analysts say. She quit last Thursday, 44 days after she was moved from the influential finance ministry to foreign affairs.
The African National Congress is developing a new policy that will limit the number of empowerment deals its members and their spouses may make, the Sunday Times reported. Based on its newly compiled ”Rich List”, the newspaper said new evidence has emerged that the party’s executives are richer than ever.
The death toll from a bridge collapse in Pakistan’s northern town of Mardan rose to at least 39 on Sunday as rescuers continued searching for dozens of people feared drowned in floods, reports and officials said. ”According to local people, more than 100 people were on the bridge when it caved in,” a senior district administrator said.
At least 72 people were killed early on Sunday in flash floods after an intense, sudden downpour pounded eastern Ethiopia, many of the victims swept away while asleep, medical officials and rescue workers said. Doctors said they had received bodies from villages that were inundated in the country’s Dire Dawa region.
Two senior members of the Scorpions elite investigation unit have been arrested for alleged involvement in an international drugs syndicate, media reports said on Sunday. They were arrested at Johannesburg International airport during an undercover operation by the police’s crime intelligence unit.
Tropical Storm Prapiroon swept across south China, leaving a trail of destruction with more than 70 people reported dead or missing by Sunday. ”It’s still raining heavily, and the situation is pretty serious,” an official said from the flood-control headquarters in Guangxi region, where the eye of the storm was located early on Sunday.