Researchers in Hong Kong think they have identified the culprit of the Sars virus — the masked palm civet, a small cat-like mammal that is treated as a culinary delicacy in some parts of China.
The South African Prisoners’ Organisation for Human Rights (Sapohr) on Friday condemned the phasing out of condoms in Swazi jails as part of a campaign to discourage sex behind bars.
A Bloemfontein-based police diver taking part in the search for the victims of a helicopter crash in Lesotho’s Katse Dam was certified dead on arrival at the Bloemfontein Medi-Clinic on Friday afternoon, police said.
Germany and France on Thursday sent emergency teams to Algeria after a powerful earthquake killed at least 540 people.
Two years after the government passed a law forcing taxi operators to buy new vehicles, it has still not chosen the models they will be compelled to buy.
The Democratic Alliance is losing its key strategist Ryan Coetzee and several MPs, while Parliament has only now received the resignation promised by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela after her fraud and theft conviction last month.
The South African Communist Party, alliance partner of the ruling African National Congress, has condemned Zimbabwe’s ”low-intensity democracy”.
Robert Gumede has hit back at allegations made against him by United Democratic Movement leader Bantu Holomisa, reported in last week’s Mail & Guardian.
The Athens lawyers’ association said on Friday it plans to sue Britain at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) over crimes against humanity allegedly committed in the Iraq war.
South African conservationists are rescuing nine lions in war-ravaged Baghdad from certain death by giving them the chance to spend the rest of their lives in the African bush.