Oil companies can wrest the initiative from the green lobby by making the clean fuels of the future from their own refineries.
Flooding and mudslides caused by torrential rains have killed at least 178 people in western China and wrecked bridges and power stations, officials said Wednesday.
Children as young as 11 are being forcibly recruited into the Myanmar army, where they are coerced into human rights abuses including mass executions, an in-depth report showed on Tuesday.
US forces have captured a man who is believed to be a top financier for Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network or the Taliban during an operation in southeastern Afghanistan, the military said.
Bloemfontein’s Grootvlei Prison head Tatolo Setlai, who allowed inmates to make a video of alleged warder corruption, has laid a complaint against his employers following his ”temporary transfer”.
The Israeli army yesterday pasted notices ordering property seizures and house demolitions the length of a street in Hebron that Ariel Sharon wants to use to link two belligerent Jewish settlements.
The Sunday Times has published pictures of six men wanted in connection with a series of bombs in Gauteng and Mpumalanga last week.
No immediate inflation relief appeared to be on the horizon after last month’s growth in overall producer prices, say experts.
South African state-owned transport utility Transnet said on Tuesday it had suspended the head of its rail group Spoornet.
Models strutting along the slopes of an artificial Table Mountain decked in high-fashion garments made of recycled plastic, tin and feathers drew a big crowd at the Earth Summit’s cultural hub on Thursday.