Tourism ministers from three African countries, including South Africa, met on Monday to discuss the development of a tourism initiative launched in 1997.
The British government cancelled a -million debt owed to it by Mozambique, in recognition of the poor southern African nation’s efforts to address poverty.
The UN Security Council lifted a travel ban on Angola’s Unita rebels for 90 days to help push forward a cease-fire agreement.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has launched a project to fight against child labour in nine African countries, one of its regional directors said on Monday.
Journalists will only be compelled to testify in war crimes trials in future if they can help resolve ”a core issue”, but will otherwise enjoy immunity, following a ruling yesterday by the appeal court of the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
The US supreme court will today hear arguments about whether the public burning of wooden crosses by the Ku Klux Klan is an incitement to racial violence or constitutionally-protected free expression.
With four years of tidy-up time since weapons inspectors left Iraq, finding remnants of outlawed arms throughout the country would meet anyone’s idea of a tough job.
Researchers have identified 1 200 new human genes by deciphering the DNA code of the laboratory mouse, a development that will dramatically accelerate the pace of medical research.
The actress Winona Ryder was yesterday sentenced to probation, fined and ordered to do community service for shoplifting from Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills last year, amid courtroom scenes reminiscent of a Hollywood drama.
Saddam Hussein risked a devastating US-led war yesterday when he delivered a 12 000-page declaration on Iraq’s arms capability, which he insists proves his regime ”retains no weapons of mass destruction”.