Six people were killed when a KFC restaurant was set on fire by a mob angry about a suicide attack on a Shi’ite mosque in Karachi, bringing the overall death toll to 11, police said on Tuesday. The fast-food chicken restaurant was targeted in overnight rioting after Monday’s attack on the Madinatul Ilm Imambargah mosque.
African business leaders attending this week’s World Economic Forum (WEF) for Africa will come up with ways to back a British plan for massive aid for the continent whose fate is to be decided at the Group of Eight summit in July, organisers said on Friday. The 15th WEF for Africa meeting will feature a strong South African presence.
For growing numbers of South African women, pregnancy is not something to celebrate — it is a desperate descent into depression and anxiety. ”In the South African setting, we have a recipe for an epidemic of perinatal mental health problems,” said Dr Simone Honikman, director of the Perinatal Mental Health Project at Liesbeeck midwife obstetric unit.
Frustrated with his play, Marat Safin said he did what any normal person would do: He whacked his changeover chair with his racket, leaving a gaping hole in the wooden base. ”I destroyed the chair, I destroyed the racket because I couldn’t take it anymore,” said Safin, who lost his fourth-round match on Monday at the French Open — but not without putting on a show.
Reports of the imminent death of the print media may be premature, or even dead wrong, as ”tabloid fever” has gripped the industry in a trend that is gaining speed, a media conference was told on Tuesday. One of the pioneers, Le Matin, a modest Swiss Francophone daily, went tabloid in September 2001. The heavyweights soon began lining up to follow.
France on Monday unveiled five new faces in a 28-strong squad for the three-Test tour of South Africa and Australia from June 12 to July 4. Deprived of 101-time capped skipper Fabien Pelous, the team will have two co-captains in Biarritz duo Jerome Thion and Dimitri Yachvili.
A high school student is thought to have gone on a shooting rampage hours before his graduation ceremony, killing three members of his own family and two other people before turning the gun on himself. His sister, Stacy (15) was wounded but survived, raising the alarm by calling a friend on her cellphone.
The oldest, most populous township in Zimbabwe’s capital was filled with debris on Monday as police pressed on with a highly unpopular drive to clean up Harare, while resident complained they were hit by a ”tsunami”.
Members of Parliament found guilty in Parliament’s so-called Travelgate scandal will be fired, the African National Congress said on Monday. In a meeting over the weekend, the party’s national executive committee said the ANC had a central role to play in fighting corruption and the abuse of power.
Rival factions in Somalia on Monday battled for control of the southwestern city of Baidoa, where President Abdullahi Yusuf plans to establish a temporary capital. The heavy fighting, which involved truck-mounted anti-aircraft missiles, mortars and heavy machine guns, is blamed for the deaths of 19 people and injuries to 28.