Spot gold on Tuesday touched a fresh 15-year high of $428,20 an ounce or the highest level since December 1988 due to dollar weakness against the euro, which touched a lifetime best of $1,2739 during the morning.
A bicycle bomb exploded on Tuesday on a street in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing at least 10 people, and shattering cars and windows in the area, witnesses and police said. The victims all appeared to be Afghans who were walking on the street when the blast occurred.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Johannesburg is sheltering about 400 abandoned or injured animals, the organisation said this week. They range from six-week-old puppies to cats and pigs and many other animals have been injured or frightened by fireworks.
The well turned out woman in trench coat and silky scarf stomped off the plane from Tokyo and headed for home in the suburbs of Virginia. ”It was too bad,” said Mrs Suzuki, the discomfort of a 12-hour flight compounded by the indignities of the new security measures on arrival. ”I felt like I was being treated like a criminal.”
The United States consulate in Cape Town will be the first in a South African city to implement a new visa security measure designed to better track visitors to the US. The visa office will begin collecting biometric identifiers or fingerprints for all visa applicants between the ages of 14 and 79 from January 12.
US to fingerprint millions
The Democratic Alliance has urged Tourism and Environmental Affairs Minister Valli Moosa to put a stop to the proposed N2 toll road that will run through the Wild Coast between East London and Durban. DA transport spokesperson Stuart Farrow said he had sent another request to Moosa urging him to reconsider the decision.
When Michael Jackson wrote the lyrics ”But if you’re thinkin’ about my baby/It don’t matter if you’re black or white” in his hit single Black or White, he could claim significant expertise. Jackson has had a fair crack at being both.
A British army officer may become the United Nations’s top administrator in Afghanistan, in a highly unusual move which reflects international concern at mounting threats to security in the war-torn country. ”I am being considered and I have been interviewed in New York,” Major General John McColl said on Monday night.
Six representatives from Namibia’s main opposition bloc defected to a breakaway faction of a tribal party over the weekend in what is seen as a major blow for the grouping ahead of elections later this year, press reports said on Monday.
Startled by the obliteration of its eastern city of Bam by an earthquake, Iran is considering moving its capital from seismically active Tehran to a safer part of the country. Iranian scientists warned that a powerful earthquake under the teeming city of 12-million people could claim 720 000 lives and paralyse the state.