Former Iraqi vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan has been captured by Kurdish fighters in the northern city of Mosul on Monday and turned over to United States forces.
Fourteen European hostages released by their captors have told a German minister they are ”doing well”, after an ordeal of more than five months in the Sahara desert, German and Dutch media reported on Tuesday.
One of the South Africa’s leading hospitality groups has urged the country’s ”lily white” tourism industry to proactively push transformation and not wait for government intervention.
As a meeting between Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye and rebel leader Pierre Nkurunziza got underway on Tuesday in Pretoria, the UN Security Council urged rebel groups in the country to give up their armed struggle.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa was in positive territory in noon trade on Tuesday after riding on the coattails of stronger world markets. Gold stocks declined, however, on the back of a lower bullion price.
France, home to the world’s largest cosmetics company, L’Oréal, has quietly launched a legal action aimed at killing off a historic EU ban on animal-tested cosmetics, the Guardian has learned.
The SA Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) now has a preliminary report on a startling finding — a mass burial site, believed to date back to the 1700s in a prime Cape Town development area, a University of Cape Town academic said on Tuesday.
Cape Town began mopping up on Tuesday in the wake of a storm that brought snow, gale force winds and driving rain, and sent temperatures plunging.
It didn’t take long for some savvy folks to dream up merchandising the blackout of 2003. Take a quick surf through the web and you can find just about any type of memorabilia, from T-shirts and coffee mugs to baby bibs and thong underwear — even advice on how to handle the next big outage.
President Robert Mugabe’s regime, accused of withholding food from thousands of starving people in pro-opposition areas, has ordered the United Nations to hand over its famine relief stocks for the state’s controversial food distribution operations, reports said here on Tuesday.