Israel’s Parliament on Tuesday night voted for the first time in 37 years of occupation to remove Jewish settlements from the Palestinian territories in a historic move that Ariel Sharon said paved the way to the end of the conflict. Sharon won, with 67 of the 120 MPs voting for the plan and 45 against. The remainder abstained.

It has been a mystery for more than a century — is a skull in an Austrian basement really that of arguably the greatest composer of all time, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? Over the weekend a group of archaeologists began to answer the question by digging up the remains of Mozart’s close relatives.

Our Red October campaign is grounded in a long history of the South African Communist Party’s involvement in land and agrarian struggles since the 1920s. Our national liberation shall remain incomplete until the land question is fully addressed in favour of the overwhelming majority of our people, principally the workers, the poor and the landless rural masses, writes the South African Communist Party’s Blade Nzimande.

Second-seeded Joachim Johansson, who hasn’t dropped his serve in his past two tournaments, easily beat Adrian Garcia of Chile 6-4, 6-2 on Tuesday at the €643 750 Stockholm Open. The big-serving Swede never faced break point against the unseeded Garcia at the Royal Tennis Hall’s fast Plexipave court.