In early February, just a few weeks before the Iraq war began, a funny thing happened in the corridors of the Pentagon — it went strangely quiet.
Staff Sergeant Jamie Villafane (31) from Long Island, New York, is among 24 American servicemen recovering from combat injuries at the US armed force’s medical centre at Landstuhl in south-west Germany.
The Iraqi army staged a tactical surprise last night when hundreds of troops defending the northern oil city of Kirkuk abandoned their vulnerable frontline positions and retreated 10 miles towards the city.
The long-awaited trial of Pim Fortuyn’s alleged killer got under way in the Netherlands yesterday with a stark admission from the main defendant.
Tyson Foods, one of the world’s largest chicken producers, was cleared yesterday of smuggling illegal immigrants from Latin America into the US to work in its plants.
Global economic recession is on the cards, especially if the war in Iraq lasts for months rather than weeks.
Part of the reason for South Africa’s worsening unemployment is that attempts to address it have been based on "programmes and projects" without looking at policies and the framework they create.
The government has established a database of corrupt businesses that departments are banned from using, while a plan for the blacklisting of corrupt employees from the public service has been approved.
Seven of every 10 South African cotton farmers have switched to genetically modified (GM) varieties. South Africa has no market for organic cotton. The GM farmers produced 25 130 tonnes of cotton in the 2001/02 growing season.
In these times of helplessness, there are only so many words one can say about the wretched war being fought in the desert of Iraq and there only so many slogans that can be chanted in opposition to it.