The Israeli attorney general has launched a criminal investigation into a local neo-Nazi website that jokes about gas chambers, advocates shooting Palestinians and denies that the Holocaust happened.
The US and Britain were accused yesterday of ”callous disregard” for the health of Iraqis and the fate of radioactive substances near a looted nuclear site south of Baghdad.
Questions are being asked about attempts by the Durban Metro to conclude a massive office rental deal without putting it out to tender.
A seven-year-old orphaned HIV-positive rape victim sent a ripple of laughter through a packed Vosloorus Regional Court on Tuesday when she was asked why she hadn’t told her aunt about the rape and replied that she ”sometimes lied”.
Leon Uris, whose best-selling novel Exodus offered the world a heroic tale of the founding of Israel and an image of Jews as muscular, sunburned avengers, has died at 78.
Four Kenyans appeared in court in Nairobi yesterday charged with murdering 13 Israeli tourists and local workers in the alleged al-Qaeda suicide bombing of a seafront hotel in November.
President George Bush raised a record-breaking -million at a cocktail party in New York on Monday night, as his campaign for re-election to the White House in 2004 moved into a higher gear.
Tourists have been known to topple over backwards on to the marble floor while torturing their necks to study every detail of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the masterpiece on which Michelangelo struggled and cursed for four years.
The hide-and-seek begins at bedtime when thousands of small figures emerge from grass huts and tramp towards the town of Kitgum in the gloom. It is a cold night to spend on the streets but the children huddle under the stars until dawn.
The government is determined to release most mentally ill patients from the institutions where they are confined, but it has not allocated the resources to ensure they are adequately cared for in new homes.