An earthquake measuring 5,4 on the Richter scale jolted southern and central Bangladesh on Saturday, whipping up high waves in the Bay of Bengal, officials said. The quake came the same day that a major earthquake struck northern Pakistan, about 2 000km north-west of Bangladesh, early on Saturday.
European countries responded swiftly to Saturday’s massive earthquake that hit Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, offering aid and funds as well as condolences. The European Union’s executive arm, said up to â,¬3-million could be approved within a day if requested by agencies working on the ground.
Community members handed over a man to the Eldorado Park police station, south of Johannesburg, on Saturday in connection with the murder of six-year-old Ghairoenisha Michaela Lee Canchi. The girl went missing on Thursday afternoon and her body was found close to her home on Friday morning. She was buried on Friday afternoon.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and diamond mining giant De Beers have reached an agreement on wage increases and employment conditions. This follows weeks of unsuccessful negotiations between the two parties. NUM chief negotiator Peter Bailey said on Saturday that although the deal was not what the union initailly wanted, it was ”comfortable” with it ”for now”.
A film festival for movies shot on cellphones opened on Friday in Paris, aiming to take cinema a technological and creative step forward in the country that gave birth to the seventh art. The Pocket Film Festival, which was to screen pictures ranging from 30-second shorts to a full-length feature set in Rome, seeks both to showcase an emerging art form and to ask what effect it might have on mainstream cinema.
He claims to be God’s right hand man, but for the past almost two decades he has unleashed hell on the people of northern Uganda. Joseph Kony, a self-styled spiritual leader and chief of the rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), is now also believed to be the object of an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court.
Six-time Japanese Grand Prix winner Michael Schumacher suffered a setback in preparation for this weekend’s race here at Suzuka on Saturday when he crashed in the morning practice session. Persistent overnight rain soaked the track and limited running in both 45-minute practice sessions but Schumacher was the first to brave the weather spun into the barriers in the opening session.
Work on the first bridge to span the Ruvuma River between Mozambique and Tanzania, will begin on October 16, Mozambique’s Public Works Minister Felicio Zacarias said on Friday. The long-awaited bridge will help spark economic growth and develop tourism in the region once it is completed in about 30 months, he told Portuguese news agency Lusa.
He has been called the ”poet laureate of pessimism”. His songs, delivered in a slow, haunting monotone, tell of death, betrayal and depression. Now, earthly matters have caught up with Leonard Cohen: his manager, he alleges, has spent all his money.
Gauteng community safety MEC Firoz Cachalia urged Eldorado Park residents to stay calm on Friday and let police investigate the disappearance of a six-year-old girl who was later found murdered. He made his appeal in response to their outrage at the police’s alleged tardiness in handling the case.