Fighting has broken out near Burundi’s capital, where several soldiers were killed by rebels, local officials and rebel sources said on Saturday as the president flew out for a peace parley.
After waiting so long for peace and stability, there is something almost vindictive in the timing. A plague potentially more deadly than any battle is seeping across Angola just when people had reasons to hope.
Great snakes! Twenty years after his Belgian creator’s death Tintin, the betufted boy reporter of comic-strip fame, is to go to Hollywood to star in a series of action films produced by Steven Spielberg.
Police in Pakistan yesterday seized Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the alleged mastermind behind the September 11 attacks on the United States. Considered the most dangerous Islamic terrorist actively operating in the world, his arrest represents a stunning blow against the al-Qaida organisation.
The United States is conducting a secret ‘dirty tricks’ campaign against UN Security Council delegations in New York as part of its battle to win votes in favour of war against Iraq.
Sri Lanka won a dramatic Cricket World Cup game against the West Indies by 6 runs on Friday at Newlands, in spite of a brave onslaught by the injured Ramnaresh Sarwan.
Andy Flower and Henry Olonga’s spirit of rebellion spread to the Queens Sports Club crowd here on Friday as Zimbabwe defeated the Netherlands by 99 runs to keep their World Cup dream alive.
Maurice Odumbe took Kenya into the Super Sixes of the World Cup on Saturday with an all-round destruction of Bangladesh — and then turned his fire on the rulers of the world game.
Not that this World Cup needs lighting up, but the rare genius of Sachin Tendulkar came ablaze at SuperSport Park on Saturday as India swept aside Pakistan by six-wickets in the great Pool A sub-continental showdown.
The argument over what should be built on the mass-murder scene where the World Trade Centre once stood was, in essence, a fight between selling and telling.