Officials from the United States and African diaspora on Tuesday urged African countries to look inwards to find economic breakthroughs and much-needed investments. Florizelle Liser, a senior official in the US Trade Representative Office, said African nations had advantages they could learn to exploit.
Zimbabwe Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa has ordered Attorney General (AG) Sobuza Gula-Ndebele to drop charges of political violence against ruling Zanu-PF party supporters and state security agents, authoritative sources told ZimOnline on Monday.
A document has been drawn up to help facilitate the signing of a final ceasefire agreement in Burundi, South African Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Tuesday. The document was drawn up by South African Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula and Burundi’s regional leaders after talks at the weekend.
Rescuers on Tuesday desperately sifted through wreckage for survivors of a tsunami that killed more than 340 people and left scores missing when it slammed into Indonesia’s Java coast. In a harrowing reminder of the 2004 disaster that left 220Â 000 dead across Asia, walls of water up to 3m high smashed ashore Monday.
Technology that helps airlines keep track of luggage and sounds an alarm when a shoplifter tries to leave the store may be able to stop surgeons from losing a sponge inside a patient, a study said on Monday. An earlier study found that medical personnel left foreign objects, most often sponges, inside a patient’s body in one out of every 10 000 surgeries.
Two Irishmen who stole a fishing trawler after missing their ferry had to be rescued off the British coast where they were going in circles because they did not know how to sail. After hours at sea, the men called what they thought was the Irish coastguard for help.
Mickey Spillane, the crime novelist who created the tough-as-nails detective Mike Hammer, died on Monday at 88 at his home in South Carolina, said a mortuary employee. ”He died today,” said Josh Campbell of Goldfinch Funeral Home in Murrells Inlet in the south-eastern United States, without giving a cause of death.
To ride in a golf cart or not to ride? That was the question driving a wedge between Group of Eight (G8) leaders even before they sat down for talks on Sunday. The G8 leaders were trying to bridge differences on the Middle East, energy and Iran’s nuclear programme. But on how to travel around the summit site they looked far apart.
What are you complaining about? If you’re a New Yorker, it’s often about noise and trash and occasionally about politics or morals. Those are some of the concerns expressed over the past 300 years by citizens writing to their mayor, as unearthed by an artist who mined the city’s archives to create the New York City Museum of Complaint.
Nick Faldo has admitted that he would have preferred not to have been paired with Tiger Woods for the opening rounds of the British Open this week, but refused to back down on comments which sparked a year-long feud between the two golfing greats.