Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi has taken his Zimbabwean counterpart to task for what he called the ”rapidly degenerating” political situation in that country, saying it could lead to a flood of refugees.
US researchers are poised to test an artificial aid to the brain. They have made a mathematical model of a memory store called the hippocampus, and programmed it on to a silicon chip. This could one day be fitted to a human with brain damage from stroke, epilepsy or dementia.
For what would have been a massive scoop, it began in unspectacular fashion. During a telephone interview with a Tehran radio station yesterday, a Pakistani political commentator dropped, almost as an aside, the earthshattering bombshell that Osama bin Laden had been captured.
Serbia was under a state of emergency last night after the assassination of its reformist prime minister Zoran Djindjic plunged the Balkans into renewed crisis.
Tony Blair yesterday took the political gamble of his life when he signalled that British forces will join an imminent US-led military invasion to disarm Saddam Hussein, even if a majority of the security council fails to endorse such action in a second UN resolution.
Cape-based direct wine marketer, The Wine-of-the-Month Club, has signed an exclusive contract with well-known on-line shopping site, Kalahari.net, that will see the wine club selling its wines on-line, the group announced on Wednesday.
There are some good deeds in this bad old world. There are some bitter enmities and bloody wars that can end in peace. There is always hope, practical hope — if only you want it enough. Which is where Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland come in.
Nearly 30 years after the leaders of Greece’s hated military dictatorship were tried in the same bunker-like chamber, the trial of November 17 — the Marxist-Leninist terrorist group born out of the resistance movement — had finally begun.
Torturers are never happier than when messing around with a victim’s genitals. And, you have to say, their imagination knows no bounds: torturers are supremely creative, more so even than advertising copywriters
The Basque-language Egunkaria newspaper was recently closed down under anti-terrorism legislation. Former editor Peio Zubiria, current editor Martxelo Otamendi and eight other managers and journalists were detained