Two cyclists, aged 30 and 31, were arrested in Honeydew north of Johannesburg on Sunday after shooting a man who was allegedly trying to steal their machines at gunpoint, police said.
A group of 14 European tourists held hostage for up to six months were on Sunday freed by their captors, officials in the northern Malian town of Gao said, amid a report that a ransom had been paid.
It’s a summer noon in Alabama and those residents of Pell City who brave the outdoors cling to the shade like a life-raft. Because of the heat and humidity they hug the contours of the downtown dollar stores, walking as slowly as a southern drawl. Pell City isn’t a city, strictly speaking.
Liberia’s leading rebel group dropped its demand for a top post in an interim power-sharing government yesterday, a condition which had threatened to scuttle the deal to end the country’s three-year war.
The convicted serial rapist and heir to the Max Factor cosmetics empire has been ordered to pay m to a woman he drugged with a potent anaesthetic and assaulted, compounding the horror by videotaping the attack.
Israel will hand control of two West Bank cities to the Palestinian Authority today after a flurry of negotiations and American pressure on both sides to prevent the collapse of the six week-old ceasefire.
Darrel Bristow-Bovey appears to have survived the sticky fingers scandal but evidently he is in interesting company, Hilary Prendini Toffoli points out.
The gloves are off in the scrap between Athletics South Africa (ASA) and the National Olympic Committee over athletics funding. ASA CEO Banele Sindani announced the governing bodies’ decision to suspend any future correspondence at executive level.
Eleven-year-old Sufian Abd al-Ghani was detained for 24 days in a US military prison in Iraq. However, his case is not the worst in the months since the US occupied Iraq. Several children have been shot dead and many are still missing, overlooked by bureaucracy.