A car bomb wrecked the front of a building in a predominantly Christian suburb of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, early on Saturday, wounding nine people, hospital officials said. The motive and target of the bombing were not immediately clear. A local legislator called it an act of terrorism that could be an attempt to destabilise the country.
The Public Service Accountability Monitor has called for the immediate suspension of Eastern Cape housing minister Neo Moerane-Mamase following her arrest on Friday morning for corruption. Mamase and her husband, Max Mamase, were arrested on Friday morning by the joint anti-corruption task team.
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Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Friday urged his supporters to vote for his party’s candidates in crunch upcoming parliamentary elections regardless of any of its shortcomings. ”It doesn’t matter that the party may have failed to fulfil certain promises, such as employment,” Mugabe said.
A three-year-old girl was raped and murdered at the Kwa-Masiza hostel in Sebokeng on Saturday morning, Vaal Rand police said. The child was murdered after the mother (23) left her alone to visit her boyfriend at about 3am, Superintendent Maria Mazibuko said.
The main topic of sartorial debate inside the courtroom at the Michael Jackson trial came not with the king of pop’s unlikely arrival in a pair of blue pyjama bottoms, but a few days earlier. The whisper rolled through the 30 or so reporters squeezed into the small municipal court as Jackson strode in on the sixth day of the trial.
At the same time that Sergeant Kevin Benderman’s unit was called up for a second tour in Iraq with the Third Infantry Division, two soldiers tried to kill themselves and another had a relative shoot him in the leg. Seventeen went awol or ran off to Canada, and Benderman defied nine years of military training and followed his conscience.
Washington’s nomination of Paul Wolfowitz as the World Bank’s next president has triggered an outcry among the bank’s staff, who have demanded the right to have a say in his confirmation, it emerged on Friday. The staff association has met with the bank’s executives to voice its concerns after it was swamped with complaints.
The first European Union citizen to be accused of involvement in genocide appeared in court on Friday in The Netherlands in a case that is being closely watched by war-crimes experts and human rights activists. Frans van Anraat is a Dutch businessman who is alleged to have helped Saddam Hussein to gas the Kurds of Halabja in 1988.
Situated in a large, old, red two-storey Victorian mansion in the Cape Town suburb of Claremont, the world’s only college of magic may lack the flying broomsticks of Harry Potter, but the school still evokes the atmosphere of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Dozens of children gather at the college each week to learn about magic.
One of the downsides of being consistently brilliant is that people start to expect it all the time. Since arriving at Stamford Bridge eight months ago, Petr Cech has produced so many match-winning moments that our amazement is in danger of dissipating. For every outstanding save he makes, he causes us to raise our eyebrows a little less.