Between 5 000 and 6 000 people flocked to the Kegue Stadium in the Togolese capital, Lome, on 6 March, hoping to be selected for treatment by the doctors of the Anastasis, the "mercy ship" that arrived at Lome port on 28 February.
British forces began a full-scale artillery assault on Basra, Iraq’s second largest city, yesterday amid dramatic reports that a popular revolt to unseat Saddam Hussein’s loyalists had begun.
At first, it seemed that the long US marine convoys, picking their way with painful slowness along an unmade-up road north of the river Euphrates, were generating the dust themselves.
Up to 500 Iraqis have been killed in a two-day sweep past the Shia holy city of Najaf by the US push to Baghdad 160 kilometres to the north, American forces claimed yesterday.
Reports last night of a nascent uprising in Basra came as British commanders were confronting a critical decision — whether to take southern Iraq’s strategic city by force.
Ali Khalid racked up a small personal victory over the privations and uncertainties of war yesterday. He satisfied a food craving that recalled the few years he had spent in the US as a child.
Firebrand South African opposition Member of Parliament Patricia de Lille is to clarify her political future at a press conference in Cape Town on Wednesday amid widespread speculation that she is to start a new political party.
The sports stars that some of us idolise and worship are usually chosen by us, but in the case of Gary Kirsten and I — he picked me.
0.21am: The battle for Iraq’s second city of Basra intensified today, with the British military reporting it had killed about 20 Iraqi fighters in the city and seized a senior politician of the ruling Ba’ath party in a nearby town.
Rugby World Cup-winning captain Francois Pienaar believes that Rudolph Straeuli’s Springboks can win the World Cup later this year in Australia.