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.
Hollywood star Winona Ryder told detectives who arrested her that she allegedly shoplifted nearly
000 of goods from a posh store to prepare for a movie role, a court heard on Monday.
Former US Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh was expected to be sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday under the terms of a plea agreement struck in July.
The Bush administration is considering a pre-emptive military strike against Iraq that would start with an attack on Baghdad and one or two key command centres and weapons depots.
Militants from the al-Qaida network, blamed for September 11 suicide attacks, may be preparing another massive strike against the United States, including US apartment buildings.
Two US congressmen appealed to Zambia on Friday to accept a US donation of corn that might include genetically modified (GM) grain in order to save the lives of its starving people.
A leader of a mainly white Zimbabwean farmer’s group told growers on Wednesday to abandon politics, saying it hurt efforts to deal with the government over its seizure of white-owned farms.
Johannes Kerkorrel’s mother, Anne Rabie, had the Afrikaans musician’s body exhumed and secretly re-buried early on Wednesday morning at Somerset West, Beeld reported.
The ashes of a South African man considered to be the ”last hero of the Titanic” will be scattered off the country’s east coast after his death last month at age 104, a relative said Thursday.
The World Bank will loan famine-hit Malawi
-million for an emergency recovery project to improve harvests and prevent more food shortages next year.