The arrested fugitives from the botched July 21 London bomb attacks faced an intense grilling as police were congratulated on Saturday for seizing all four suspects in a massive international manhunt. Dramatic raids in London and Rome left the alleged bombers in police custody.
Ugandans have voted in favour of re-establishing multiparty politics after 19 years of President Yoweri Museveni’s ”no-party politics”, according to early results of a referendum announced on Friday. About 87% supported a move to allow plural parties, according to figures from 68 of Uganda’s 214 constituencies.
When 4 000 university graduates are among the 20 000-plus people who apply to be a maid to an Indonesian soap star, one might think the country’s economy has hit rock bottom. This is no ordinary job search, however, but the latest reality show to hit Indonesian TV.
Smoking will be virtually extinct in Australia within 25 years and more frowned upon than spitting in the street, according to researchers who have scientifically mapped the end of the smoking epidemic. A study by Curtin University in Western Australia suggests that women will be the first to butt out for good.
A fourth suspect in the July 21 bombings in London was on Friday night being held in a Rome cell after being arrested by Italian police following an operation stretching across three countries. Italy’s interior minister named the suspect as Hussain Osman, a Somali-born naturalised British subject.
Saddam Hussein has been questioned in court for the first time about the crushing of the Shia rebellion in southern Iraq in 1991, the senior investigating judge on Iraq’s special tribunal revealed on Friday. Judge Raid al Juhi said the former Iraqi dictator had been summoned to a hearing on Thursday to face 45 minutes of questioning.
In a rare challenge to the authority of United States President George Bush by a senior Republican, the Senate majority leader, Bill Frist, on Friday said he will support legislation to remove some of the administration’s limitations on embryonic stem-cell research.
Pope Benedict XVI was on Friday immersed in the first big diplomatic crisis of his papacy after the Vatican issued an unusually blunt statement criticising Israel for its response to Palestinian attacks. Israel demanded to know why the pope did not refer to a Palestinian suicide bombing when condemning terrorist attacks in London and Sharm el-Sheikh.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> on Friday challenged the public protector to a public debate on its report into the Oilgate saga, which the newspaper called "rather meaningless". Earlier in the day, Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana said at the release of the report that he found no evidence of wrongdoing in the scandal.
The 300 women crammed into the courtyard of an eastern Niger clinic surged forward as cars loaded with food and medical equipment drove up at 8am. ”I heard that they are distributing food here,” said Khadija Abdourahmane, who had risen at dawn and walked nearly two hours to Madaroufa’s clinic.