All the mammals of Madagascar are descended from four ancestral species that must have sailed there clinging to rafts of plant material, scientists believe.
Big business was ”broadly satisfied” with the government’s fiscal and monetary policies, as well as its macro-economic policy and micro-economic programmes.
African National Congress MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela will seek an urgent interdict on Tuesday to stop National Assembly Speaker Dr Frene Ginwala’s public reprimand.
Coal seam fires that can burn underground for centuries pose a major threat to the environment and human health, experts say. Once under way they can be impossible to put out, raging for decades or even centuries.
Picky eaters run the risk of contracting cancerous diseases because of their aversion to vegetables, a study reveals. The study, by scientists in the United States, found a link between what is eaten, the ability to taste bitterness, and the risk of killer diseases.
President Olusegun Obasanjo has ordered the immediate arrest of ethnic militants who unleashed two weeks of violence in Nigeria’s volatile Niger Delta that caused scores of deaths and halted oil operations.
Almost all of the miners that embarked on a nine-day work stoppage at world number two platinum miner Impala Platinum have returned to work on the Sunday night shift.
America’s military and civilian war leaders made an aggressive effort to present a united front yesterday, amid claims that US troops are beginning an enforced pause of days or weeks before advancing on Baghdad.
Tony Blair today waded into the battle for hearts and minds in the Arab world by arguing that the United States and Britain were right to go to war in Iraq.
In this highly politicised city where anger over the invasion of Iraq alternates with pride in the resistance, there is one sure way to lighten the mood.