The number of South Africans carrying the HIV virus that causes Aids appeared to be stabilising, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said on Monday.
US President George Bush will tell the United Nations (UN) next week that United States will act on its own to disarm Iraq unless world leaders take action to do so.
Angola’s army on Monday began choosing 5 000 former Unita rebels to join the ranks of the military under a peace pact bringing an end to almost three decades of civil war.
German investigators say they have found evidence that Mohamed Atta, the suspected leader of the September 11 attacks, and two of his accomplices trained at al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan in 1999 and 2000, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
A plucky farmwife with a hunting rifle fought off four attackers holding up her husband on Monday, wounding one in the chest.
A gruesome tale of cannibalism, torture and murder began to emerge here on Monday as the trial opened of two outback misfits accused of Australia’s worst serial killing spree.
President George Bush will oppose any new US aid to Egypt to protest the seven-year jail sentence handed down last month to human rights activist, Egyptian-American Saad Eddin Ibrahim.
The extradition of two South Africans accused of killing a British businessman and private investigator would go ahead despite a car crash on Monday night in which a British detective was killed,
The dollar rose off last week’s 2002 lows against the main European currencies and two-month troughs against the yen on Monday, but remained vulnerable after a recent string of poor data on the US economy.