Nigeria’s election commission has registered three new parties out of a total of 24 that applied to compete in next year’s national elections.
Parts of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef are under attack from a major infestation of coral-eating starfish that are endangering the world’s largest living organism, environmental protection officials said on Wednesday.
Slobodan Milosevic underwent medical tests yesterday after his genocide trial was suspended for the second time this month, fuelling concern that his health may not allow proceedings to continue.
The Cape High Court ordered the Cape Times newspaper on Monday to pay R100 000 to Waleed Suleiman, for defamation.
Ethiopia, which abides by the Orthodox Julian calendar, celebrated its New Year on Wednesday with President Girma Wolde-Giorgis calling for national unity to fight drought and Aids.
People should stop blaming and criticising government for the research it is conducting into the safety of antiretrovirals’ use in Africa, former president Nelson Mandela said on Sunday in Bloemfontein.
Iraq could unleash a biological attack on the West by using unsuspecting people traveling abroad as carriers of deadly germs, a prominent Iraqi defector warned late on Thursday.
Former first lady Marike de Klerk’s dance instructor John Thebus on Wednesday denied claims that he stabbed and strangled her in her beachfront apartment.
The US military has in custody a man who law enforcement officials believe directed an al-Qaida plot to destroy the American Embassy in Singapore, a senior Bush administration official said.
Iraq repeated denials it is rearming and said that even without sophisticated weapons, it will teach the United States an unforgettable lesson if it is attacked.