The leader of the armed wing of the radical Islamic Jihad faction was killed on Wednesday in an Israeli air strike on a car in Gaza City, Palestinian medical sources said. Khaled al-Dahduh, the leader of the al-Quds Brigades in the Gaza Strip and West Bank, was killed when the vehicle in which he was travelling exploded.
Zimbabwe’s central bank governor says that the cash-strapped Southern African country last year spent -million importing food to make up for poor harvests, a state-controlled newspaper reported on Wednesday. ”Zimbabwe’s grain imports gobbled up -million last year,” the Herald quoted Gideon Gono as saying.
United States President George Bush arrived in Afghanistan on Wednesday for his first visit since US-led forces toppled the Taliban regime in 2001. Bush made the surprise stopover, landing at the US military base at Bagram, north of Kabul, as he headed to India to begin a maiden trip to South Asia
Innat Edson didn’t think it would end this way. Last year, she was making wedding plans. Now, at just 15, she is back at her mother’s cramped, dingy house, nursing a fussing baby her former fiancé refuses to acknowledge is his. Many of Malawi’s teen mothers marry much older men who they hope can give them a better life.
British low-cost airline easyJet said on Wednesday that it is to start flying to Africa for the first time with a new route to Marrakesh in Morocco from July. The no-frills carrier will offer daily flights to the continent from London’s Gatwick airport on July 4, as it expands its horizons beyond Europe.
Nelson Mandela, the country’s first democratically elected president, voted in Houghton, Johannesburg, on Wednesday.
Still in a state of reverberating shock after the defeat against relegation-threatened Bloemfontein Celtic on Sunday, Premier Soccer League log leaders Mamelodi Sundowns have received some reassuring news for their revamped PSL game against Santos at Loftus on Thursday night.
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Khutsong community stalwart Jomo Mogale on Wednesday called for a by-election in the troubled township where residents are boycotting the local government poll. He said the few voters who had trickled in to cast their ballots were mainly candidate councillors themselves.
World 4x100m freestyle record holders Ryk Neethling and Roland Schoeman will be joined by two of Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend, Gerhard Zandberg and Karl Thaning when the aquatics action takes centre stage on the first day of action at the 18th Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, on March 16.
Lou Vincent compiled a watchful century, and Nathan Astle and Stephen Fleming made half-centuries on Wednesday to give New Zealand a 91-run victory over the West Indies in the fourth limited-overs cricket international. New Zealand compiled 324 for six at McLean Park after being sent in to bat.