Zimbabwe police arrested the opposition mayor of Harare, Elias Mudzuri, for the second time in two days on Tuesday on unspecified charges, he said.
US President George Bush paid homage on Tuesday to African slaves who passed through the port here, calling slavery "one of the greatest crimes of history" that nonetheless stirred America’s commitment to freedom.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=16820">Bush jets into Pretoria tonight</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/pd.asp?ao=16806">Mbeki and Bush to talk money </a>
Alpha Omar Konare, the former president of Mali, looked highly likely on Tuesday to be elected chairman of the African Union Commission, a key job in the pan-African grouping as it tries to drag the continent out of its cycle of conflict and poverty.
Laleh Bijani died on Tuesday just hours after her sister Ladan died in delicate surgery aimed at separating the 29-year-old Iranian twins who born joined at the head, a nurse involved in the surgery said.
Complications slow surgery on twins
Americans may not know it, but most eat genetically modified food daily. And two Midwestern scientists — one an unassuming gardener, the other a no-nonsense executive — are largely responsible.
The National Union Of Metalworkers and electricity utility Eskom are still at loggerheads after five rounds of wage negotiations failed to produce an agreement on wage increases.
The Independent Electoral Commission had not yet decided whether a special Braille ballot template for blind voters will be used in next year’s general election, the IEC said on Tuesday.
A new law has been proposed in Zimbabwe which, if passed, would dock six months’ pay from lawmakers who walk out of parliament when the president is making a speech, a newspaper said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Tony Blair faced some tough questioning on Tuesday from deputies on whether the war on Iraq was justified, a day after a parliamentary report rapped the manner in which he took Britain into the conflict.