Dolly Mokgatle, Managing Director (Eskom Transmission) has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of South Africa rail parastatal Spoornet.
The average annual inflation rate in Zimbabwe continued its dizzying upward trend, hitting 228% in March, the government’s statistics office said on Tuesday.
Two of the biggest names in corporate America, Microsoft and General Motors, yesterday quashed hopes that an early conclusion to the war in Iraq might be a catalyst for a return to profit growth.
The US and British governments yesterday formally began the tortuous process of steering Iraq towards a democratic future, but the first day of talks was undermined by technical delays, schisms and fierce political and religious unrest sweeping across the country.
Clash at Tikrit
Ali flies out
Saddam’s missing billions
The leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro has been arrested in Baghdad, according to US intelligence sources.
Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder last night staked out a role for themselves as mediators between the US and France in the postwar world.
Gangs of Arab tribesmen armed with Kalashnikovs and machine guns were still in control of much of Tikrit last night, a day after US marines apparently liberated the town.
Ali Ismaeel Abbas, the 12-year-old Iraqi who lost both arms and was orphaned in a missile attack, is to be flown to Kuwait for life-saving treatment.
The British Museum has announced a taskforce of conservators and curators, funded by an anonymous private donor, to go to the rescue of Iraq’s ravaged museums.
In the days before the fall of Baghdad, and the explosion of looting on the streets of the capital, a far more damaging form of looting was already under way as Iraqi bank accounts were ransacked and millions of dollars were transferred into private accounts abroad.