Detectives in Britain investigating the murder of a young Nigerian boy whose torso was found in the River Thames in September 2001 arrested 19 people on Tuesday in early morning raids in London, police said.
The fondness of many Nigerians for throwing money around has created a thriving but illegal market for mint-fresh naira notes for use in gifts and at parties.
Egypt’s antiquities chief will continue to press the British Museum to loan the 2 200-year-old Rosetta Stone to Cairo for a limited time, though British curators say they can’t let a piece central to their collection go.
”The death of Uday and Qusay,” the commander of the ground forces in Iraq told reporters on Wednesday, ”is definitely going to be a turning point for the resistance.” Well, it was a turning point, but unfortunately not of the kind he envisaged.
New York City is set to create America’s first public secondary school specifically devoted to gay, bisexual and transgender students.
A subpoena issued for former president FW de Klerk to testify for the defence in the Boeremag treason trial was set aside by the Pretoria High Court on Tuesday.
International Monetary Fund chiefs on Monday blamed Zimbabwe’s government for pursuing ”inappropriate policies” that plunged the country into a steep downward spiral.
Lectures at Potchefstroom University were suspended on Monday afternoon until Wednesday after meningococcal meningitis claimed the lives of two students in five days.
South African London-listed brewer SABMiller announced on Tuesday that it had closed the deal to acquire a strategic investment in Harbin Brewery Group Limited in China.
Liberian rebels opened a second front yesterday in the city of Buchanan, and hopes of an immediate deployment of peacekeepers faded as the battle for the capital Monrovia entered its 10th day.