<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.
The South African government will not stand in the way of apartheid reparations lawsuits filed overseas but it does not support them, Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Penuell Maduna said on Wednesday.
Letters in the latest issue of the journal Aids tell contrasting tales about HIV treatment in developing countries.
Zimbabwe’s High Court rejected a request by the opposition on Wednesday to block soldiers and policemen and other armed security officials from staffing polling stations at upcoming elections for district council and two parliamentary seats.