Thousands of people went on a rampage at a music festival in Rustenburg on Sunday, setting musical equipment alight, smashing car windows and damaging property in the streets surrounding the show grounds.
India confirmed on Saturday it had lost an unmanned plane over Pakistani territory as one million Indian and Pakistani troops remian stationed on the arch-rivals’ common borders.
India’s expected package of measures to ease tensions with Pakistan is not likely to include any military steps at this stage.
Rescue workers removed 79 bodies from the carnage of the train derailment in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, reports said on Wednesday.
Firing across the India-Pakistan border killed at least 14 people on each side and three Indian police officers were slain by suspected Islamic militants on Thursday.
Britain and the United States have not suspended arms sales to India amid the current military stand-off with Pakistan.
India’s railway authorities plan to introduce on-board massage facilities to relieve the aches and pains — and boredom ? of long-distance rail travellers.
World economic leaders said on Monday that greater transparency in economic decisions and stronger regulations are needed to encourage investors and speed up the slowing global economy.
Sixty government and wine industry delegates from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa and the US attended the World Wine Trade Group (WWTG) meeting in Cape Town.
Hans Blix, the UN’s chief weapons inspector, has assured Iraq that the team he is sending into the country next week will be as free of spies as he can make it.