The notoriously crowded and sweaty basement club where the Beatles played
some of their first gigs is about to become a global brand, writes Helen Carter in London, and will soon be opening as far afield as Australia, Spain and Brazil.
Islamic guerrillas waged at least three attacks on Wednesday in the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, injuring three people, soon after Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee arrived for a national conference, police said.
Freedom Front leader Dr Pieter Mulder added his party’s voice on Wednesday to calls for a commission of inquiry to investigate new facts regarding the arms deal.
<b>CD of the week:</b>
Tumi and The Volume:<i>At the Bassline</i>
Every now and again an album creeps up and sinks its teeth into your aural cavity so successfully that it makes you a fan from merely a single spin, writes Jason Curtis.
At least 39 people, mostly women, were killed on Wednesday in a stampede by Hindu worshippers rushing to bathe in one of western India’s holiest rivers at a festival held every three years.
The Southern African Development Community lost an opportunity to help solve Zimbabwe’s problems by supporting President Robert Mugabe in Tanzania this week, the New National Party said on Wednesday.
France’s government is mulling whether to scrap a national holiday and make people work instead to finance better care for the elderly — the main victims of the recent heat wave estimated to have killed thousands.
President Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d’Ivoire said in a televised broadcast to the nation on Tuesday night that several people had been arrested in Côte d’Ivoire and France for planning to assassinate him and several of his aides.
Kruger National Park officials fear that a new billion-rand sugar project on its borders will dry up rivers in the world-renowned park, and is just one of several concerned parties warning that water-intensive sugar crops will place a heavy burden on the drought-stricken Limpopo province.
Baby in her arms, a single mother condemned by an Islamic court to death by stoning appeared at a courthouse in northern Nigeria on Wednesday for an appeal of a sentence that has drawn an international outcry.