Two of the five people who died when their residential hotel caught fire around 1am on Wednesday, leapt to their deaths, Johannesburg emergency services representative Malcolm Midgley said.
The UN weapons chief, Hans Blix, is likely to deliver a critical report to the security council on Iraq’s cooperation with the inspectors, noting that Saddam Hussein has routinely exploited looming deadlines to deliver last-minute results, a senior UN official said yesterday
A bomb ripped through a crowded airport in the Philippines yesterday, killing 19 and injuring about 150 in an attack branded by the Philippine president ”a brazen act of terrorism which will not go unpunished”.
President George Bush gave notice yesterday that the US will resort to military force against North Korea if diplomacy fails to stop it building a substantial nuclear arsenal.
Recent efforts to eliminate an alien invader between Pietermaritzburg and Durban have left residents and environmentalists in a froth. The KwaZulu-Natal Department of Water and Forestry Affairs has sprayed a broad-spectrum glysophate herbicide on Hammarsdale dam
Access to community knowledge and sources of information is a building block for economic development. Public libraries already play a vital role in this area — but they have more work to do. Counting the cost is a one-sided way of looking at the funding of public libraries: exploring the benefits shows the other side
Long after the conflicts are over, the environmental damage still remains. We catalogue the damage done to Kuwait, Kosovo and Afghanistan during the wars in these countries
Cricket is a religion in India, a country whose fans burn effigies of their captain every time they lose a game.
Ethiopia’s prime minister has called on the West to reform damaging trade policies and increase development aid to help his country break its 20-year-long cycle of poverty and famine
Nasser Hussain quit as skipper of the England one-day international squad on Tuesday, following his team’s early exit from the World Cup.