Siblings of centenarians have an increased chance of breaking the century mark, according to a study, reinforcing the idea of a longevity gene.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met late on Monday with the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, amid heavy violence which the envoy said had left him ”shocked.”
Authorities in Mozambique and Zimbabwe have launched a probe into claims by provincial authorities that Zimbabwean commercial and peasant farmers were seizing arable land along the border with Mozambique.
Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gadaffi arrived in style in Swaziland on Thursday in a 90 vehicle motorcade from Durban, promising a poor woman on the way that her life would improve.
The fighting raged so close that bullets whizzed through the jail yard. Locked in their cells, the prisoners grew frantic. They pounded and hacked at the doors. Some managed to break out, escape over the walls and hide in the bush. But instead of freedom, many met death, fellow inmates say.
Moscow’s theatre community on Wednesday buried two of its bright young talents, swept away when Chechen separatists stormed centre stage last week and turned a light-hearted song-and-dance musical into a tragedy.
A 13-year-old Grahamstown girl was kidnapped, raped and held captive for a week before escaping on Saturday, police said.
A young British tourist was repeatedly raped after she and her South African friend were hijacked on the Sabie-Lydenburg road on Saturday afternoon.
A solemn Sabrina van Schoor was convicted in the Grahamstown High Court on Monday of murdering her 48-year-old mother.
A Durban firm of attorneys was left red-faced on Monday after mistakenly placing a racist sale in execution notice in a local Barkly East newspaper