America Online has filed five federal lawsuits targeting spammers it accuses of sending some 1-billion junk e-mail messages promoting mortgages, steroids and pornography to its subscribers.
The United States is urging Zimbabwe’s neighbours to step up pressure on President Robert Mugabe to hand power to a transitional government to pave the way for new elections, a senior State Department official said on Monday.
President Olusegun Obasanjo’s ruling party took a lead in legislative elections, according to partial returns, boosting his hopes for re-election in presidential balloting later this week.
The University of the Witwatersrand is set to appoint a new vice-chancellor following the controversial resignation last year of Professor Norma Reid-Birley.
This year’s national education budget has prompted concerns that the most vulnerable of South Africa’s children could once again disappear from the country’s priorities.
The White House has privately ruled out suggestions that the US should go to war against Syria following its military success in Iraq, and has blocked preliminary planning for such a campaign in the Pentagon.
Health officials in Hong Kong are trying to establish why six relatively young patients suffering from Sars — the pneumonia-like disease which has spread from the mainland — have died.
Tikrit was the final target of the air and ground operation mounted by American and British forces in Iraq, the last major town to be overrun after three and a half weeks of heavy bombing and shelling.
Seven American soldiers seized by the Iraqis and paraded on television described in vivid detail yesterday how they were captured and held in harrowing conditions for three weeks before being rescued by marines.
Anti-war protesters in San Francisco recently barricaded the gates of Bechtel, the engineering group that oversaw the construction of the Channel tunnel.