Following a day of deadly riots in the streets of Khartoum sparked by the death in a helicopter crash of former rebel leader John Garang, Sudan on Tuesday was plunged back into uncertainty.
The <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> is South Africa’s biggest standalone online newspaper, according to internet readership figures for June, released by the Online Publishers Association and ratings company Nielsen//Netratings this week. In June this year, the <i>M&G Online</i> attracted a record 298 819 unique users.
Paris made a bold move in 1977 by building a modern art museum wrapped in large multicoloured pipes in the heart of the city. Now, French art authorities are planning another audacious act: a satellite of the Pompidou Centre that looks like a Chinese peasant’s hat.
An Arizona national guardsman serving in Iraq has been demoted for posting classified information on his blog, an army official said. Leonard Clark (40) was demoted from specialist to private first class and fined 640 said Colonel Bill Buckner, a spokesperson for the Multi-National Corps-Iraq, on Monday.
New statistics involving gun-related cases handled by emergency service Netcare 911 show a decline over recent months, the company said on Tuesday. ”It may well that stronger policing and gun laws in South Africa are having an effect on reducing the number of guns and gun-related violence in the country,” said Netcare 911’s CEO.
Four people were killed when heavy rains triggered flooding and landslides on Tuesday in the north-eastern provinces of Trabzon and Rize on Turkey’s Black Sea coast, the Anatolia news agency reported. Turkey’s lush Black Sea Coast region is prone to seasonal floods and landslides.
After an inauspicious plop into the choppy waters off Alcatraz, Jake the pooch swam into the history books as the first canine to escape from the former prison island to San Francisco. The golden retriever and his human swimming buddy, Jeff Pokonosky, led a group of competitors that jumped from a boat in waters off the prison for a 2km swim to San Francisco on Saturday.
Security forces restored a tense calm to the Sudanese capital on Tuesday, a day after 36 people were killed in bloody riots sparked by the death of Sudanese vice-president and former southern rebel leader John Garang. Three days of national mourning were declared following his death, but it was not immediately clear when or where his funeral will be held.
Hillary Clinton isn’t running for president, but her campaign has already started in New Hampshire, traditionally a key United States state for launching a possible bid for the presidency. A group of supporters known as Hillary Now!, has paid to run TV ads this week in several New Hampshire towns.
North Korea said no progress was made in talks on Tuesday over the dismantlement of its nuclear-weapons programmes but insisted it is still working to find a solution. Deputy chief United States envoy Joseph DeTrani said the talks will continue into a ninth day on Wednesday.