Henry Kissinger, the former US secretary of state who has been accused of war crimes by his critics, was yesterday appointed by George Bush to head the investigation into the September 11 attacks.
At almost the last possible moment, Missouri Governor Bob Holden stayed the execution of convicted hit man Daniel Basile after an unidentified witness stepped forward.
Former president Nelson Mandela is to take up the Treatment Action Campaign’s (TAC) call for antiretroviral (ARVs) drugs for people with HIV directly with President Thabo Mbeki.
Zimbabwean journalist and publisher Mark Chavunduka, whose arrest and subsequent torture helped expose his government’s increasing repression of dissent, has died after a prolonged illness, his family said on Wednesday.
A Thai Senate committee will hold a hearing next week on whether a Bangkok high school should be allowed to continue using hard-core sex videos in sex education classes.
A little way off the Californian coast, near the island of San Clemente, the men of the USS Constellation’s squadrons were last week going through their paces to ready themselves for war.
Sudanese authorities have arrested a suspected al-Qaeda leader whom US officials say fired a surface-to-air missile at a US aircraft at an American airbase in Saudi Arabia.
Police unearthed a major arms cache in Limpopo on Friday, which they believed was linked to an alleged plot by rightwingers to overthrow the government.
As news emerged that babies and children around the world have been prescribed the impotence drug Viagra for a life threatening lung condition, experts were said to be concerned about the dangers.
A mob stoned and burned to death a 54-year-old woman and her 24-year-old daughter whom they accused of practising witchcraft, Limpopo Province police said on Friday.