Four people including two children were shot and wounded by two gunmen in Lenton Road, Bishop Lavis in Cape Town on Wednesday, Western Cape police said
Keith Uncapher, a computer pioneer at the University of Southern California who was a key player in the development of the Internet, died of a heart attack, the university announced. He was 80.
West African peace-makers struggled to hold together a
cease-fire deal on Friday in rebellion-divided Ivory Coast — while rebels accused loyalists of readying their long-threatened counterattack under cover of the truce talks.
A Hong Kong supermarket chain said on Saturday it has halted the sale of dog meat in its branches in China after customer protests.
Maximum access was necessary to dispel any suspicion of a cover-up in the probe into South Africa’s multi-billion rand arms deal, a Pretoria High Court Judge said on Friday.
As Adita Mat Husin went to her 10th-floor office in the world’s tallest buildings on Wednesday, she was thinking of work – not about how safe the Petronas Twin Towers would be on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the United States.
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan had given his backing to a program by President Robert Mugabe’s government to seize thousands of white-owned farms.
MINISTERS and officials of the World Health Organisation began a week-long meeting in Geneva on Monday, set to include talks on bioterrorism and access to drugs for poor countries.
A South African labour union said on Wednesday workers should not be blamed if the central bank missed its inflation targets because of their demands for higher wages.
THE Baghdad zoo has fallen on hard times, and its six lions are now reduced to eating donkey meat because beef is expensive.