An Australian shot in the leg by his friend at a drunken party was so intoxicated he went back to sleep after the accident, a court was told on Tuesday. The court in the north-eastern city of Brisbane placed Shannon David Campbell (21) on probation for a year for unlawful wounding.
One-hundred-and-forty reindeer have plunged to their death in Lappland in northern Sweden, possibly having been chased off a cliff by a single lynx, reindeer herders said on Tuesday. "It’s a massacre. I have never seen anything like this," town spokesperson Nils Petter Pavval said.
Clutched in small groups and squatting uneasily outside a clinic in northern Burundi, the growing crowd of Hutus fleeing village genocide courts in Rwanda looked anything but optimistic. For the past two weeks, they have been trooping across the border in increasing numbers, fearing persecution or unfair treatment.
The United Nations World Food Programme has decided to extend its emergency food-aid programme in Eritrea to mitigate the effects of drought, said Jean-Pierre Cebron, WFP’s country director for Eritrea. Cebron said the extension of WFP’s emergency activities was intended to provide food aid to around 840 000 people.
First it was the penal colony on Robben Island, then the Old Fort at Constitution Hill. Now a decaying army base on the edge of the Blyde River Canyon, in Mpumalanga, has become the latest set of buildings to be transformed from a place of oppression into a thriving tourism resort. Is tourism earning its reputation as the world’s peace industry by turning the architecture of terror into slick holiday resorts?
North Korea has halted operations at its nuclear reactor, prompting the fear that it may be extracting fuel rods for processing into weapons-grade plutonium. Less than a week after Pyongyang threatened to expand its atomic arsenal, the action seems to be designed to frighten the United States and regional powers into resuming talks.
Farmers and fishermen are devastating Iraq’s marshes, considered by some to be the site of the Garden of Eden, with uncontrolled use of chemicals and fishing using electric shocks, researchers warned on Monday. The illegal methods are wiping out wildlife, polluting water, endangering human health and undermining the recovery of one of the world’s great wetlands, they say.
South African Airways (SAA) said in a statement on Tuesday that it has begun randomly weighing its passengers together with their hand luggage through a voluntary process at Johannesburg International airport. A survey will be carried out on approximately 1Â 000 passengers travelling on SAA’s domestic, regional and international flights over the next two weeks.
Minister of Social Development Zola Skweyiya expressed shock on Tuesday over allegations that substandard quality food hampers are being distributed in the Northern Cape. ”These allegations came as a shock and I have ordered the department to investigate with a sense of extreme urgency,” he said in a statement.
Black smoke from the roof of the Sistine Chapel signalled that Roman Catholic Church cardinals were still deadlocked on a choice of successor to Pope John Paul II after two rounds of voting early on Tuesday. An initial emission of black smoke from the chimney was followed 15 minutes later by a second one.