The price of shares on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) struck an historic peak on Tuesday, amid the prospect of a possible merger between the LSE and the New York Stock Exchange. The share price in Europe’s biggest exchange hit a record high of 1 252,5 pence in London trading, giving the LSE a market value of £3,2-billion.
Axed Cape Town city manager Wallace Mgoqi wants the city to pay for his legal battle to retain his job, the Cape Argus reported on Tuesday. Its website quoted Mgoqi as saying he had to obtain legal representation after he was served with a letter stating two legal opinions had concluded his contract was invalid.
Nine people appeared in the Kempton Park Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday for the theft of millions of dollars from Johannesburg International Airport, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported on Tuesday. Their telephone conversations with each other could be used to link them to the crime, investigating officer Peter Mbonani testified in their bail application.
The Resurrection stories are too bad to have been invented. No novelist would dare dream up the inconsistent collection recorded in the New Testament. The story-tellers agree that Jesus died of crucifixion, with nails in hands and ankles, blood congealing round the assegai wound in his side, mockery from onlookers, farewell words on his lips, and cursing from the soldiers. But after that?
Iran issued a stern warning to United Nations Security Council permanent members and Germany on Tuesday ahead of their talks in Moscow on its nuclear programme, saying no amount of pressure would make it back down.
Jason Gillespie was the unlikely hero with the bat for Australia on Tuesday, striking a maiden Test century as the visitors took control of the second Test against Bangladesh. Six days after narrowly avoiding a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Test minnows, normal service was resumed for the world’s best side as they finished the third day on 364-3 in reply to Bangladesh’s paltry 197.
Chadian rebels who advanced on the capital in a fleet of brand-new Toyotas had clear support from Sudan, which wants to replace President Idriss Déby Itno with a pro-Sudanese leader, diplomats and human rights groups here said on Tuesday.
Former Zambian president Frederick Chiluba, who is undergoing medical treatment in South Africa, is planning to sue a Zambian newspaper for alleging that he is HIV-positive, his spokesperson said on Tuesday. The privately-owned newspaper The Post said in an editorial that medical tests stating that Zambia’s second president was HIV-negative were fake.
Luis Figo, Cristiano Ronaldo and the rest of Portugal’s national team will be served healthy doses of chicken soup during the World Cup in Germany to ward off homesickness, the squad’s chef has said. Helio Loureiro, who has cooked for the team for eight years, told daily newspaper 24Horas there is nothing like the soup ”to give strength and revive family memories”.
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Emotional transference could lead a victim of previous rape to perceive consensual sex as rape afterwards, a forensic psychologist told Jacob Zuma’s rape trial on Tuesday. Testifying for Zuma, Louise Olivier also questioned whether his rape accuser froze during the alleged rape at his Johannesburg home.