He is terrified of flying, and not too fond of ferries either, but when the maverick director Lars von Trier makes enemies, he’s not afraid to pick on the biggest bully in the playground.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has lauded the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) as the epitome of multilateralism, which would result in a peaceful and prosperous continent.
The European Commission said on Wednesday it has agreed a new â,¬13-million (-million) aid package for Zimbabwe to counter drought and food shortages.
Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma lower house of parliament on Thursday that would offer an amnesty to rebels in Russia’s war-torn republic of Chechnya, the Kremlin said.
Ahmed Abdullah Sallal was 10 years old when his cousin put a knife in his hand and ordered him to kill a man.
A packed Nelson Mandela auditorium at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront listened intently as several former Robben Island prisoners regaled the audience with island stories at the official launch of Pan Africanist Congress leader Stanley Mogoba’s book.
At least 10 people were killed and about 100 wounded, most of them women and children, on Wednesday as fierce clashes rocked the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo town of Bunia, said a UN representative, as fears mounted of a humanitarian disaster.
The United Nations’ top refugee official condemned Liberia’s handling of its growing humanitarian crisis on Wednesday, telling top leaders, ”You’re killing your own people.”
Human rights workers yesterday accused the US military of failing to protect and properly excavate the largest mass grave discovered in Iraq.
The lawyer representing the Guardian’s correspondent in Zimbabwe, Andrew Meldrum, was threatened with detention herself yesterday after she went on his behalf to the headquarters of the immigration service in Harare.