THE two men accused of maltreating the Tuli elephants in 1998 on a plot near Brits in the North West, had three charges dropped against them in the Pretoria Regional Court on Friday.
A truck bomb exploded outside a hotel popular with Israeli tourists on the Kenyan coast today, killing at least eight people.
The witness protection programme has ordered that luxury-loving fraud suspect Jurgen Harksen be sent back to jail ”with immediate effect”.
Close to 300 Namibian people demonstrated peacefully on Tuesday in protest against the recent killing of a German tourist at Ameib, some 25km from Usakos.
Cyprus has quietly crumbled to a Brussels ruling it can no longer call its feta cheese by that name, but local producers say they are not willing to go soft.
The government of the vast, poverty-stricken west African state of Mali resigned without public explanation on Saturday after only four months in office.
A Libyan linked to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network, arrested three weeks ago in London for possession of false identity papers, was planning an attack on an Italian church with a 15th-century
fresco showing the prophet Mohammed burning in hell.
A fire swept through the Grootboom informal settlement north of Cape Town on Monday afternoon, destroying 450 dwellings and leaving 2 000 people homeless.
Twelve Greenpeace activists, six of whom scaled the pumphouse at the Koeberg nuclear power station on August 24 and unfurled a banner saying ”Nukes out of Africa,” were sentenced on Monday to a fine of R4 000 for breaching security.
A top White House official on Sunday dismissed the Kyoto Protocol, the first coordinated world response to tackling global warming by requiring industrialised countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions.