The radical Indonesian cleric thought to have masterminded last year’s Bali bombing is to be tried for attempting to overthrow the government and establish an Islamic state, prosecutors said yesterday.
New York’s smoking ban reached new heights of controversy when a bouncer was stabbed to death for asking a smoker to put out his cigarette.
Mutating: Scientists in California have provided the first detailed look at how human antibodies may drive HIV to mutate. The findings, reported last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States, may be key to efforts to develop an effective Aids vaccine.
Diversified mining group Anglo American made a significant impact on South Africa during the last quarter in its unfamiliar capacity as a foreign investor.
A draft black empowerment charter for banking and insurance sets no targets for black ownership in the sector, while acknowledging that the "banking of the unbanked" must follow sound business practice.
A spat between local miners and a poor community near Barkly West in the Northern Cape threatens neighbourhood relations throughout the desolate area.
The black people of Gong Gong and Waldeck’s Plant are up in arms over mining policies they say discriminate against them. Aspirant small-time miners say they struggle to secure licences from the government that are readily provided to white miners.
It is bound to go down as one of the great moments in PR history. With United States tanks rolling into Baghdad and the sound of artillery fire reverberating around the city, Iraq’s ever jovial Information Minister, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, popped up to declare that the ”infidels” were facing ”slaughter”.
Townspeople came out to celebrate when last year water came to another 10 000 people in El Alto, the sprawling city of one million on the high plain above La Paz, Bolivia.
South Africa’s quest to conquer African football has seldom materialised into a sustained challenge.
If the rumours coming from diverse sources inside and outside White Hart Lane this week are true, if Glenn Hoddle’s days at Tottenham are numbered, we will have to look no further than north London for confirmation that romance in football counts for very little any more.