As the reviled leader of a country crippled by sanctions and open to invasion, Saddam Hussein does not automatically spring to mind as a good business prospect.
Thousands of music fans converged on the Franco-Italian border on Thursday for Teknival 2002, billed as the summer’s largest rave, which is being held in Italy to skirt a French crackdown.
The Israeli army, using explosives and armoured bulldozers, completely demolished overnight the Hebron headquarters of Yasser Arafat’s Palestinian Authority.
Uganda’s leading independent newspaper began publishing again on Thursday, after being closed for a week by the government for reporting that a military helicopter was shot down by rebels.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday presented a prize to Austrian mountain climber and writer Heinrich Harrer, who wrote of his real-life experiences in his best-selling book ”Seven Years in Tibet”.
International aid donors have agreed to provide the war-torn African state of Burundi with -million over the next three years for an economic recovery programme, UN officials said.
A pathologist has told the Cape High Court that no sperm was discovered in forensic tests on the body of murdered former first lady Marike de Klerk.
French, South African and Bulgarian mercenaries have arrived in Ivory Coast to help the army counter a rebellion that has split the west African country in two, government sources admitted here on Monday.
The local Director of Public Prosecutions is to consider steps against the Cape Argus following a ”disturbingly misleading” front page report last Thursday concerning semen found in the Dolphin Beach apartment of former first lady Marike de Klerk.
US intelligence has received new reports that Osama bin Laden received a kidney transplant in late February, but it’s unclear whether the reports are true.