United States President George W Bush is preparing to bury a radical French plan that would help some of the world’s poorest farmers by ending the dumping of subsidised Western food in Africa.
American-made cigarettes such as Marlboros contain up to twice as much of a cancer-causing chemical as foreign brands, federal health officials said on Friday.
The elder brother of a Vryheid chief in northern KwaZulu-Natal has been arrested and charged for illegally "selling" plots on privately owned farmland.
Michael Jackson is facing bankruptcy, according to the people he hired fiveyears ago to take care of his financial matters. But the singer’s lawyersclaim that Jackson is not suffering so much from financial woes as anillness caused by a surfeit of lawsuits, write Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles and Tania Branigan in London
The German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer said Friday it planned to launch its rival drug to Pfizer’s anti-impotence treatment Viagra in the United States in the second half of this year, following favourable comments about the drug by the US health authorities.
France will provide half of a 1 400-man international force to be deployed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) once the United Nations has given the green light, according to Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie.
One man has been killed and several others injured in violent clashes between landless peasants and security guards at a tea estate in the southern Malawian district of Mulanje, police said on Thursday.
Russia’s uneasy relations with Japan have shown a marked improvement recently, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday during a meeting here with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon has made an urgent request to the Speaker of the South African Parliament to put a number of questions to President Thabo Mbeki regarding the Mail & Guardian’s article on a shady oil deal.