A concert that was to feature an on-stage suicide of a terminally ill person has been postponed because the website that was to broadcast the event was attacked. The website for the band Hell on Earth was attacked on Saturday evening by a flood of data from computers somewhere in Hong Kong.
Israel struck back with helicopter attacks in the Gaza Strip overnight after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 19 people, including five children, in the northern Israeli town of Haifa. The radical Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the eve of the Jewish Yom Kippur holiday.
Israel dynamites home of suicide bomber
Israeli troops have dynamited the West Bank family home of a Palestinian suicide bomber who killed 19 people in the northern town of Haifa on Saturday. A 30-strong column of Israeli tanks and other armoured vehicles launched a pre-dawn raid in the West Bank town of Jenin, where a curfew was imposed on Saturday.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has gone on the attack, denouncing the latest sexual harassment allegations made against him as untrue and charging that all of the 11th-hour accusations were intended to wreck his campaign for governor. He has also been accused of expressing admiration for Adolf Hitler nearly 30 years ago
Springbok skipper Corne Krige has admitted he had described England captain Martin Johnson as a dirty player in a media interview but said it was an off-the-record remark and not designed to stir up trouble ahead of the Springboks’ Rugby World Cup Group C clash.
Four sport reporters were killed and eight others were injured after the minibus in which they were travelling was involved in an accident on the R59 outside Alberton on Saturday night. The reporters had been in Vanderbijlpark covering the Masakhane games.
The director of the Kruger National Park, David Mabunda, is tipped to become the new head of South African National Parks (SANParks). He will take over as CEO of the country’s 20 national parks from Mavuso Msimang, who has moved on to head the State Information Technology Agency.
Traditional healers have a crucial role to play in the implementation of a national anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment plan, especially in rural areas where there is a shortage of doctors. This was the major resolution reached at a forum hosted by the Traditional Healers Organisation (THO), which represents 25 000 members.
European leaders are divided on several issues as they start 10 weeks of final negotiations on Saturday for the European Union’s first constitution, a blueprint meant to ready the bloc for expansion next year. Some countries, including Austria and Finland, have demanded major revisions of the constitution.
One person has been reported dead and two missing after severe storms lashed New Zealand’s North Island, cutting off main arteries to the capital, Wellington, with floods and mudslides. Emergency officials are searching for two pilots whose cargo plane is thought to have crashed into the sea off the Kapiti coast.