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.
Early results showed President Olusegun Obasanjo sweeping to victory in Nigeria’s presidential election last night, but opponents denounced the ballot as rigged and warned they would reject the results.
Researchers have opened the way for new treatments of malaria, the scourge that threatens 500 million worldwide and kills a child in Africa every 30 seconds.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Monday told the US government to ”go hang” and said the US-led coalition’s operations in Iraq were ”a grave criminal act”.
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Concerned that the bloody conflict in the Ituri region of north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and increasing tensions between Rwanda and Uganda might derail the recently signed inter-Congolese political settlement, President Thabo Mbeki has been manoeuvring to prevent this happening.
Treatment Action Campaign chairman Zachie Achmat will be honoured as a world hero in this week’s European edition of Time magazine, Die Burger reported on Monday.
Human rights organisations are protesting at the inclusion of countries with some of the worst records of abuses on a list of candidates for election to the main United Nations watchdog.
Intel Corporation has delayed initial shipments of the latest Pentium 4 microprocessor after a potential flaw was discovered in tests.
British Airways wants to resume scheduled flights from London to Baghdad as soon as stability returns to Iraq, its chief executive Rod Eddington said on Sunday.