A woman who fell through the floor of an old house in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, while having sex had to be pulled out of the basement by rescuers using a firefighter’s ladder, officials said on Tuesday. "A couple from the street entered the courtyard of an old house under renovation, and the woman fell through the floor while apparently having sex," they said.
The conflict in the Middle East is a recipe for creating suicide bombers, Nobel Peace laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu said on Tuesday. ”I think God is crying that God’s children can do this to one another,” he said in Cape Town. ”Whatever the provocation, there can never be a justification for targeting civilians.”
Hopes faded on Tuesday for finding survivors from hundreds of people missing after murderous weekend flash floods devastated a town in eastern Ethiopia, officials and residents said. With the death toll from flooding in and around Dire Dawa hovering at 206, they said frantic rescue efforts were continuing but conceded chances were slim.
Ziba Jiyane, leader of the National Democratic Convention (Nadeco), has been suspended by the management committee of his political party. On Tuesday, Nadeco national chairperson Mandla Magubane said: ”They [Jiyane and Nadeco secretary general Jabulani Maphalala] have brought the party in disrepute.”
Nedbank on Tuesday became the first bank to offer bank accounts to thousands of informal traders operating in the Durban city centre in Ethekwini, KwaZulu-Natal. This project is being coordinated together with the Informal Sector Empowerment Cooperative, an organisation that manages over 10 000 traders who operate in the informal retail sector.
Bomb attacks around Baghdad killed at least 19 people and wounded 80 on Tuesday as insurgents defied a security crackdown in the Iraqi capital. The first blast echoed around the city at dawn, when a roadside booby trap ripped open a minibus and a taxi in the downtown Nahda area, killing nine people and wounding eight, an interior ministry official said.
Fuel retailers in Zimbabwe have hiked prices by up to 50% as the Southern African country faced fresh shortages amid rampant inflation and a devalued currency, a state-run daily reported on Tuesday. ”Diesel and petrol prices went up at the weekend from about Z 000 (,60) per litre to between Z 000 and Z 000,” the Herald newspaper said.
South Africa’s animal authorities are battling an outbreak of a killer disease near the Kruger National Park in the country’s northern Limpopo province, the Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs said on Tuesday. The department said the foot-and-mouth-disease outbreak was inside a buffer zone around the tourist attraction.
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