United Nations | Friday EVERY minute of every day, a woman dies in pregnancy or childbirth, the UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) said in a statement to mark International Women’s Day on Friday. ”It is unacceptable that in the year 2002 so many women die in the basic act of giving life,” Unicef director Carol Bellamy […]

FREE State police on Tuesday appealed to members of the public in Mangaung, Bloemfontein to donate old bicycles which would be used in crime prevention. Captain Ernest Mayiki said the old bicycles or parts would be improved to make serviceable bicycles that can be used to fight crime in Batho area in Mangaung. He said […]

Mogadishu | Thursday PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo fired Nigeria’s police chief and six deputies on Wednesday, citing mounting crime and the country’s first-ever police strike, officials said. The decision to dismiss Inspector General of Police Musulimi Smith and his deputies was approved at a meeting of the police council chaired by Obasanjo in the capital, Abuja. […]

ATTEMPTS to tow a stricken trawler off the Port St Johns coast in the Eastern Cape to safety were expected to resume on Wednesday morning after a towline became trapped around the propellers of a tug. The Tropical ran into trouble 56 nautical miles south of Port St Johns with nine crew members on board. […]

Gardez | Thursday THE United States has rushed hundreds of reinforcements to the mountains of eastern Afghanistan as the coalition against terrorism pressed into the sixth day of its costliest battle. As Cobra helicopter gunships and Apaches made their way to the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, the military said 100 more al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters […]