An application for a warrant to arrest the Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, on torture charges was rejected by a British court on Wednesday. Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell had hoped to bring President Mugabe to justice through the British courts under international human rights laws.

From his hideout after the fall of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein warned the insurgency against working too closely with ”jihadists” who had come to fight the US-led occupation, according to a document reported yesterday.

A 22-year-old Palestinian mother of two small children, pretending to be disabled, killed four Israelis at a Gaza border crossing on Wednesday after duping soldiers into allowing her a personal security check rather than going through a metal detector.

Whereas the job of the media is generally to look outwards, the SABC is in the often unenviable position of having the glare pointed squarely at Auckland Park. So it was this week. The corporation was in hot water with opposition parties for its decision to cover the African National Congress election manifesto launch jamboree in all its green, black and gold glory.

I wouldn’t recommend a weekend at the Harare Central Hotel if you are proposing to visit Zimbabwe. Some of the staff can be over-attentive and the room service leaves a lot to be desired. Mosquitoes nibbled at our bare feet all night while cockroaches the size of rats scuttled about. The toilets? Don’t even mention the toilets.