Libyan leader Moammer Gaddafi and former South African president and Nobel peace prize winner Nelson Mandela spoke by phone on Saturday on the possible US military strike on Iraq.
Automatic weapons fire erupted early on Thursday in Ivory Coast’s economic capital Abidjan in what a disgruntled soldier said was a protest over the imminent demobilisation of hundreds of troops.
Half of cargo handled in Africa and the Middle East is classified as dangerous, a Kenyan shipping official warned at an international shipping parley which ended on Tuesday.
Philippine authorities are looking into the possible role of ”foreign terrorists” in a series of deadly bomb attacks in the country’s south, officials said on Monday.
The Dalai Lama arrives on Saturday on a 10-day visit to tell Australians how they can find happiness.
FOR Vir Bhadra Mishra, the day is not complete without a dip in what he considers the holy waters of the Ganges, although he knows he risks his health by immersing himself in India’s most polluted river.
Software giant Microsoft, hoping to attract holiday season shoppers, on Tuesday will debut a wireless keyboard and mouse combination, including a device that could link computers to multiple electronic devices without using cables.
Former police detective Roger Jones had illicit sex ”two or three times” with his lover, Pieternella Leonore Klip van As, the Somerset West Magistrate’s Court heard.
A bus carrying kindergarten children on a picnic plunged into a ravine in Indonesia’s East Java province on Tuesday and the state Antara news agency said at least 16 of them were killed.
The Mail&Guardian newspaper came under attack at the funeral of African National Congress MP Peter Mokaba on Saturday, with the ANC Youth League calling for a boycott.