The first team of UN inspectors landed in Baghdad yesterday to resume their search for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons after a four-year interruption.
A French archaeological team looking for a giant Buddha thought to be buried close to Afghanistan’s destroyed Bamiyan Buddhas was forced to pack its bags on Sunday.
Rwandan police have arrested two people in connection with the killing of two endangered mountain gorillas and the disappearance of an infant in the first incident of poaching in 17 years.
Two accomplices of jailed apartheid-era hitman Ferdi Barnard walked free on Monday after the Johannesburg Regional Court acquitted them on 11 charges including murder.
Lawyers representing SA apartheid victims seeking billions of dollars for ”blood and misery” from German, Swiss and US firms will present their claims in New York on Friday.
TWO teenage girls from a youth reformatory in Wellington appeared in court on Monday after a security guard was stabbed to death.
Though religious orders pledged their support this week for the US Roman Catholic Church’s policy in dealing with priests accused of sexual abuse, they feel it is too harsh.
Israel declared an end to its demolition of Yasser Arafat’s West Bank headquarters, maintaining a siege around the building and demanding surrender of all the people inside, but Palestinian defiance intensified.
Sharon says Arafat is ‘finished’
A warehouse storing sacks of genetically modified maize was raided in southern Zambia on Monday, highlighting tensions between the government’s policy not to distribute the food.
Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of the Zambian capital Lusaka in support of a new anti-corruption drive announced in parliament by President Levy Mwanawasa.