Uganda’s main opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, was released on bail and greeted about 12 000 cheering supporters outside the courthouse where he is on trial on charges he says were fabricated to keep him out of next month’s presidential election.
Former Australia rugby league captain Steve Rogers was found dead in his Sydney apartment, his club said on Tuesday. Rogers (51) was general manager at National Rugby League club Cronulla Sharks, based in Sydney’s southern outskirts, and father of dual rugby league and rugby union international Mat Rogers.
Kalay Maistry (33) is the newly appointed Southern Africa correspondent for al-Jazeera International, the new 24-hour English-language news channel.
The holder of a British lottery ticket worth nearly £10-million (about R109-million) lost it all on Monday, when the six-month deadline for claiming the winnings expired. Most likely, the unlucky winner, from Doncaster in South Yorkshire in northern England, simply forgot to check the ticket.
The spot price of gold on Tuesday climbed to a three-week high of $521,03 a troy ounce on buying interest in very thin holiday trade, traders said. "The market for gold is very thin and gold is higher on a bit of buying. Gold could test $518/oz or maybe $525/oz today," a European gold trader said.
Rescuers on Tuesday searched through debris and mud for victims of flash floods that inundated villages in Indonesia’s East Java as the death toll rose to 57, officials said. Environmentalists have blamed the disaster on rampant illegal logging on the island of Java, one of the world’s most densely populated.
Jacques Kallis and Ashwell Prince scored centuries and Shaun Pollock added a rearguard 46 before South Africa declared at 451 for nine on Tuesday in the third Test against Australia. Kallis and Prince shared a 219-run fourth-wicket partnership to lift the tourists from 86-3 to 305-4, before Pollock led the tail-enders in a series of defiant stands.
Rescue workers struggled on Tuesday to reach 13 miners trapped 78m below ground in a mine explosion that may have been sparked by lightning — an effort delayed for almost 12 hours because of accumulations of dangerous gases. The condition of the miners was not immediately known.
A new security flaw exposing hundreds of millions of Windows PCs to easy infiltration by hackers worsened over the New Year weekend, with Microsoft failing to issue an official patch on Monday. The flaw stems from the way the Windows operating system treats image files.
Unidentified gunmen attacked the two main military barracks in Côte d’Ivoire’s largest city, Abidjan, on Monday, setting off a battle with security forces that officials said killed 10 people and heightened tensions in the war-divided nation. Gunfire and heavy explosions shook the barracks at Akuedo for about an hour.