World opinion was sharply divided on a new agreement with Iraq to resume weapons inspections, mirroring the fierce debate in the UN Security Council.
Vivendi Universal said on Wednesday it has obtained a one-billion-euro (-million) credit line from a group of international banks as the beleaguered media giant struggled to avoid a cash crisis.
Two pioneers in Aids research who had fallen out bitterly over the discovery of the virus which causes the disease announced that they had joined forces to devise a trial vaccine.
The leader of a Zimbabwe teachers’ union which has called its members out on indefinite strike, Raymond Majongwe, has been ”seriously injured” while in police custody, his lawyer Tererayi Gunje said on Thursday.
For a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu is a hoot.
Thousands of South Korean veterans marched on Thursday in downtown Seoul, burning North Korean leader Kim Jong Il in effigy and calling for ”sticks and no more carrots”.
Theft, prostitution and child labour are some of the means hunger-stricken communities in Zimbabwe are using to cope with the effects of drought and food shortages.
South Africa was not giving up on its strife-torn northern neighbour Zimbabwe, the presidency recently said.
The Israeli government and the Palestinian people should move beyond retribution and revenge, says SA’s deputy minister of foreign affairs, Aziz Pahad.
The United States denounced the impending trial in
Zimbabwe of US journalist Andrew Meldrum, calling the case against him evidence of the government’s continued harassment and intimidation of the press.