NEW YORK – CHINA’S banned Falungong spiritual group charged the communist authorities on Monday with rounding up 5 000 of its members in a police sweep in northeast China and in which it claimed up to 100 practitioners were killed.
WASHINGTON – ISRAELI military planners are preparing for a major assault on
Palestinian cities, towns and refugee camps, even as the United
States continues diplomatic efforts to forge a truce between the
two sides, the Washington Post reported on Monday.
THE industrialised world should not hold the New Partnership for
Africa’s Development (Nepad) hostage because of mistakes made in
Zimbabwe, Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin said on Monday.
Pretoria | Tuesday OTHER provinces could refuse to implement the decision by the Pretoria High Court order compelling government to provide nevirapine to HIV-positive pregnant women at state hospitals with the capacity to do so, Justice Minister Penuell Maduna said on Monday. ”This is the decision of just one court and purely on the basis […]
Johannesburg | Friday A NEW strain of meningitis has broken out in the west African country Burkino Faso, Medinfo said on Friday. It said in a statement that Burkino Faso had been experiencing an outbreak of the lethal A and C strains of the disease since the beginning of the year. But the new strain, […]
Lagos | Friday Nigeria’s government has declared strict Islamic law a violation of the constitution, in a move bound to cause huge unease in the mainly muslim north. This new declaration comes two years after the system was first declared in Nigeria’s northern states. The declaration, which has significant political implications in Nigeria a year […]
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It is unlikely that maths genius John Forbes Nash ever calculated that a story of his life and battle with mental illness would ever become a top draw at the movie theatre.
With his Oscar win Sunday night for best director, Ron Howard can finally silence all those who snickered about his Hollywood career, which began with a stroll down a country road.
US actress Jennifer Connelly and British actor Jim Broadbent won best supporting actor Oscars at Sunday’s 74th annual Academy Awards, as fantasy film <i>Lord of the Rings</i> took an early awards lead.