Seven people were killed, including two children, and 47 others wounded when at least one mortar bomb landed near a Baghdad police station on Tuesday, the Health Ministry said. A United States soldier and a civilian security guard were also wounded when another mortar fell near the city’s convention centre.
The life of a football manager in the English Premiership is frantic, pressured and apt to end in sometimes arbitrary dismissal. But now under-fire bosses can predict when they might face the sack — using the weather. A professor at Cambridge University has devised a complex theoretical model plotting the fates of club managers, based on similarly complex ones used by climate experts.
California’s bodybuilder-turned-governor is considering giving weightlifting equipment back to prisoners, who have been barred from using weights since 1997. ”We talked about that several times,” Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Monday after touring his first prison since becoming governor last autumn.
The 115-member Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) still has a relevance and a role to play, South Africa’s permanent representative at the United Nations, Dumisani Kumalo, said on Monday. ”NAM still remains [as] relevant today as it was in 1961 when it was launched in Belgrade,” said Kumalo during a media briefing on the eve of a NAM Ministerial Conference in Durban.
Darfur burst into the news as a land of Arab-on-African violence, but a singer from the troubled region of Sudan says the two communities are as inextricably intertwined as the music they share, a distinctive blend of Arab tunes and African rhythms.
SA Tourism CEO Cheryl Carolus will not renew her three-year contract when it expires at the end of October 2004, the tourism marketing body said on Tuesday. Carolus was previously the African National Congress secretary general and the South African High Commissioner to the Court of St James, a post she assumed in March 1998.
The United Nations has suspended mediation talks with a rebel group in the central African state of Burundi after it claimed responsibility for the massacre of 159 civilians in a refugee camp, the UN said on Monday. The FLN, the rebel force of Burundi’s Hutu ethnic group, claimed responsibility for last Friday’s slaughter in a camp at Gatumba in Burundi containing mainly Congolese Tutsis, a rival ethnic group.
President George Bush will face a home-video barrage four weeks before the election: Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore’s assault on Bush’s handling of the September 11 attacks, debuts on DVD and videotape on October 5. The announcement on Tuesday confirmed Moore’s initial intention to have the film out shortly before election day.
More than 160 Tutsi Congolese refugees massacred at a border camp were buried on Monday, as the African Union said it was sending a team to Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate the deaths. Nigeria’s president, Olusegun Obasanjo, chairperson of the 53-member AU, on Monday denounced the attack, which took place on Friday, by extremist Hutus.
UN suspends talks with Burundi rebels
The United Nations is to intervene to avoid international confusion over the names of countries, cities, hills and rivers which have been changing so frequently that postal services, search and rescue workers, tourists and public transport companies are struggling to cope.