Swirling floodwaters which have left 500 dead and millions homeless continue to affect vast tracts of Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
Faced with Arab demands that he pressure Israel for territorial concessions, President George Bush is focussing his Middle East policy on another front – fighting terror.
President Thabo Mbeki said on Thursday South Africa would continue to privatise state-owned corporations despite opposition from the country’s major trade union federation.
A few weeks after the UN Earth summit, major donor nations will gather to discuss a long awaited dream for one of the world’s poorest regions — a dam to provide electric power and better management of the Niger River in west Africa.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein plans to pay Libya billions of dollars to secure political asylum for his family and senior members of the Baghdad regime in the event of a war with the West.
A company claiming to own the world’s largest collection of porn has bid to buy Napster, the bankrupt online music company.
The Western world’s response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Africa caused by Aids and hunger was woefully inadequate, hypocritical and immoral, says a top UN official.
James Bond is once more to drive an Aston Martin. Informed sources deep inside the dim corridors of M16 revealed this exclusively this week.
South African mining giant Gencor has postponed its general shareholders meeting scheduled for Wednesday to allow lawyers representing claimants allegedly suffering from asbestos-related diseases more time to prepare their submissions to the company.
The Botswana government has questioned allegations that bushmen who refused to relocate from a game park were in a life-threatening situation.