In a gambit surely unprecedented in US legal history, Zacarias Moussaoui, awaiting trial for conspiracy in the September 11 attacks, has set the US attorney general a multiple choice quiz, offering a seat at his execution as a mock reward for getting the right answer.
Dozens of British and American oil workers who have spent over more than two weeks as hostages on four offshore Nigerian oil rigs were last night helicoptered ashore after agreement was reached between their union, the rig owners, Transocean, and the Nigerian government.
A Chinese military submarine has been wrecked in a disaster which killed all 70 of its crew, Beijing said last night, breaking its usual silence on military accidents.
The close historic relationship between the African National Congress (ANC) and the labour movement remains central to furthering South Africa’s democracy, says President Thabo Mbeki.
South African hunters and safari operators are exploiting the Zimbabwean political situation as local authorities make a fast buck by allowing them to strip parts of the new Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park and its surrounds, including the farming district bordering South Africa.
The police chief in the Turkish city of Bingol was today sacked after rioting broke out in the aftermath of yesterday’s earthquake which killed more than 100 people.
The Iraqi people will be forced to suffer more death, disease and fear if the coalition does not step up security to help humanitarian aid get through, warn relief agencies.
The United Nations (UN) in the Central African Republic (CAR) appealed to donors on Wednesday for ,1-million to help two-thirds of the country’s 3,7 million people directly affected by war.
The South African Pharmacy Council warned on Friday of the possible suicidal psychological side-effects of the popular malaria drug Lariam.
Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano has dismissed recent allegations that he played a role in the death of the country’s first president, killed in a plane crash 17 years ago.