The US gun industry could be granted immunity from litigation if a bill promoted by the National Rifle Association becomes law. Relatives of victims of the Washington sniper are leading a campaign to stop the bill.
Russia yesterday dragged the Iraq crisis back into the bitter acrimony of the security council by insisting that UN inspectors verify that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction before it allows sanctions to be lifted and the ”new Iraq” to freely sell its oil.
A controversial, revisionist history of the Spanish civil war which claims it was sparked by a leftwing revolution and that Winston Churchill was crueller than General Francisco Franco has proved a surprise publishing success.
South African banking group Standard bank (SBK) has entered into a working relationship with the Eastern Cape Department of Social Development in order to ensure safer and more convenient social grant payouts in the province.
Mulalo Nemavhandu, the man hired to tackle corruption within the Gauteng Department of Social Service and Population Development, has been thrown out of his job as programme manager for poverty relief.
The Inkatha Freedom Party is contemplating firing member Bonga Mdletshe from the provincial speaker’s position to ensure that the African National Congress does not have the numbers to take over the reins of KwaZulu-Natal.
The Speaker of the National Assembly, Frene Ginwala, and some members of parliament are on a five-day visit to the Russian Federation, the Secretary to Parliament, Sindiso Mfenyena, said on Monday.
Whether online consumers will pay for content is no longer a matter of debate — it has become increasingly clear that they will. Earlier this year Wallace & Gromit fans rushed online to buy a new series of short movie clips involving the bungling inventor and his long-suffering dog.
In a departure from its usual bellicose defiance, North Korea quietly issued a correction about its nuclear programme yesterday, setting the stage for peace talks this week with the United States.
Beijing yesterday added more than 100 cases to its Sars total, only one day after the figure had been revised upwards 10 times in a dramatic but belated recognition of the crisis.