Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer has ordered an inquiry into the increasing number of Palestinian civilians, including children, being killed by the army, after a bloody week in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
PAKISTANI intelligence agencies believe Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network is preparing to unleash a wave of suicide attacks around the world.
The African National Congress in the Western Cape has accused the Democratic Alliance of hypocrisy and failing a moral test.
Leaders of nine African nations and scores of high-ranking world diplomats will meet next week to discuss the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad), an ambitious plan created by Africans to advance economic development.
A Cambodian monk and two nuns set themselves on fire in a suicide pact thought to bring them closer to Buddha, police said on Tuesday.
A Cape Town Regional Court magistrate was seriously wounded when several shots were fired at him as he was about to get into his car at his home in Brandwag near Kuils River on Friday.
An angry Cambodian mother nailed her daughter’s foot to the bamboo floor of their home because she neglected her household chores, police said on Tuesday.
Rescue teams on Monday worked on the grim task of identifying hundreds of badly-burned victims of a powerful car bomb attack on the Indonesian resort island of Bali which killed at least 190 people.
Rebels from a small movement in northeastern Democratic of Congo have captured the town of Bafwasende from the Congolese Liberation Movement dominant in the area.
THE Malawi government has issued a fresh appeal to wealthy nations and aid agencies on Monday to provide emergency food assistance.