The mandate of the peacekeepers patrolling a buffer zone between the warring parties in Côte d’Ivoire has been extended for one month by the United Nations Security Council. The short extension, approved late on Monday, will allow the UN and France to monitor progress at peace talks between the government and the rebels.
SA Rugby has confirmed that two referees will be brought before a disciplinary hearing following remarks made about an administrator. The two top rugby referees allegedly brought the game into disrepute after criticising Griquas president Baby Richards in a newspaper article.
A police inspector died and two officers were injured when their police helicopter crashed into a house in Lakefield on Monday. Operational Response Services spokesperson Director Sally de Beer said Inspector Anton van Vuuren, of the South African Police Service air wing in Johannesburg, died at the scene.
A lactating woman in Myanmar has volunteered to breastfeed a pair of endangered Bengal tiger cubs recently born at a Yangon zoo and separated from their aggressive mother, <i>The Myanmar Times</i> reported.
A family holiday to Namibia ended in tragedy on Tuesday last week when a church minister from Modimolle (Nylstroom) fought in vain to rescue his youngest brother from the jaws of a crocodile, News24 reported. On Thursday, police divers called off the search for Mannetjies Coetzer, a businessman from Heidelberg.
ChevronTexaco on Monday announced an ,2-billion deal to buy American rival Unocal, a move to cash in on the growing thirst for energy that has sent crude oil prices to record levels. The agreement is expected to be the first in a wave of takeovers in the sector as energy companies post record profits and seek to boost their oil and gas reserves.
An outbreak of an Ebola-like virus in Angola has killed 150 people — 20 in the past three days — and health officials across Southern Africa are scrambling to contain the deadly disease. Marburg is a haemorrhagic fever in which victims die from extensive bleeding, internally or from orifices, including eyes and pores.
Shrek, a New Zealand sheep who won international fame a year ago with his substantial 27,5 kilogram fleece, has been left bleating in the background with the emergence of an even bigger woolly wonder. Fleece from Shrek 2 weighed 31kg and measured three metres in length when shorn over the weekend.
A red-faced BBC apologised on Friday for requesting an interview with Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae legend who died 24 years ago. BBC Three, one of the public broadcaster’s digital TV channels, sent an e-mail to the Bob Marley Foundation saying it wanted to do a documentary about his hit song "No Woman No Cry".
The Michael Jackson child molestation case took a potentially devastating turn for the singer on Monday when the jury heard from a young man who claims that Jackson sexually molested him on three occasions more than 16 years ago. The 46-year-old singer, he alleged, ”put [money] down my pants” after each incident.