Stocks climbed on Thursday, boosted by strong orders for durable goods and a federal panel’s approval of a new key drug of Biogen Inc.
A pair of thieves equipped with just a ladder, a large piece of cloth and a rope managed to break into Amsterdam’s famous Van Gogh museum yesterday and make off with two multi-million-rand canvases by the artist.
Criminals in South Africa will be dealt a further blow in the near future with the introduction of an unmanned aerial surveillance drone by the South African Police Service.
Chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix on Friday warned Iraq against playing ”cat-and-mouse games” with weapons inspectors due to arrive there shortly under UN mandate.
Two men appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court on Monday on charges of defrauding the Road Accident Fund.
As the first anniversary of the September 11 tragedy approaches, plans for the World Trade Center site are in disarray, tainted by criticism that they’re boring and small-minded.
Bruce Dickinson, singer for chart-topping heavy metal veterans Iron Maiden, is hitting new heights in his second career as a commercial airline pilot.
With a mock crop dusting exercise performed by a bright orange single engine plane flying over a sugar cane-growing region, Brazil’s aircraft manufacturer, Embraer this week unveiled what it said would be the world’s first industrially produced alcohol fueled plane.
The radical Islamic Jihad movement has claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn kamikaze attack on an Israeli naval patrol boat that left four sailors wounded and the two Palestinian militants dead.
British newspapers said on Tuesday that President Robert Mugabe had subjected Prime Minister Tony Blair to a humiliating ambush after ”hijacking” the UN Earth Summit in Johannesburg to blame Britain for Zimbabwe’s crisis.