Errant African National Congress MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has 10 days to provide Parliament with a date when she will attend a National Assembly sitting to be publicly reprimanded by Speaker Dr Frene Ginwala.

A draft report on the impact the Gautrain might have on heritage sites, particularly in Pretoria, was released for public comment on Wednesday.

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.