A baby boom is being reported in China, the result of millions of couples deciding to have their permitted child before the inauspicious year of the goat begins in a month’s time.
Basem Maswadeh knew he was in trouble when an Israeli soldier pushed him into the barber’s chair and reached for the clippers.
Walking through a forest with my dogs one day, I heard the screaming of an animal in distress. After collaring the dogs, we hurtled through the trees to find the source of this dreadful noise.
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Jack Henry Abbott (58), murderer whose letters to Norman Mailer became the best-seller In the <i>Belly of the Beast</i>, by suicide in prison.<br>Glen Adams </b>(55), former Western Cape MEC.
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The United States on Tuesday accused a senior Kenyan official of harbouring a notorious warcrimes suspect wanted in connection with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and demanded action on the matter from the new, day-old government in Nairobi.
The French police arrested a former soldier yesterday whose tip-off led them to arrest a Paris airport baggage handler in whose car a cache of guns and explosives was found.
Spy satellites and surveillance planes are being used by US intelligence to track about 15 cargo ships which it believes are owned or controlled by al-Qaida, it was reported yesterday.
UN inspection teams in Iraq have found ”zilch” so far, but have had little help from intelligence agencies to guide them in their hunt for illicit weapons, one of the inspectors said yesterday.
A special New Year’s Eve police operation conducted jointly by the Johannesburg Metro police, the SA Police Service and the SA National Defence Force in Hillbrow, Johannesburg was hailed as a success by the Metro police on Wednesday, despite gunshots being heard intermittently.