”His image put up more resistance than he did,” said a commentator in the leftwing Beirut newspaper al-Safir, referring to those symbolic moments in Firdaus Square, Baghdad, when an American tank recovery vehicle came to the assistance of the jubilant Iraqis trying to topple the giant statue of Saddam Hussein.
The use of cloned and donated human embryos for medical research risks being outlawed in the EU after the European parliament voted against it yesterday.
Tread carefully, was the message from market analysts in the United States this week. As coalition forces swept into Baghdad, stock exchanges across the globe cheered and rallied. But the prospect of a large US budget overrun due to war spending, and the pneumonia scare in Asia, loomed darkly in the background.
It was a slow collapse. The statue of Saddam Hussein, huge and commanding, resisted the crowds tugging on the noose around its neck for two hours. Thirty years of brutality and lies were coming to a close — not decisively, not in full measure, not without deep fears for the future or resentment at this deliverance by a foreign army — but on a day of stunning changes.
Police in Zimbabwe on Thursday released the representative for the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) after arresting two more party lawmakers, said the representative and a lawyer.
Who’s the longest hitter in professional golf? For years now there has been only one answer: Tiger Woods. But it is no longer true, and not by some distance.
Labour force and income expenditure surveys released recently show the persistent worsening of both the unemployment rate and income poverty in South Africa. The official unemployment rate, at 30%, comprises more than 4,5-million members of the labour force, while about 60% of the population lives below a poverty line of R533 a month.
A Mpumalanga couple are engaged in a protracted legal battle to establish a safe haven for their captive-bred lions. The matter is finally going before a judge in a case that animal-welfare activists say could have broad implications for the future of wildlife conservation in South Africa.
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Some of South Africa’s leading journalists have reminded their colleagues of the attempts by the apartheid government to embed journalists in their security forces.