Genetically modified food is safe for human consumption and should be used to fight famine threatening millions in southern Africa.
Fear is settling into this leafy, affluent suburb on the northern edge of the US capital, where lurks an eagle-eyed sniper who has killed six and wounded two in the past week and is still at large.
French Family Minister Christian Jacob was beside himself with outrage. ”The book actually glorifies paedophilia, and no crime is more ignoble, more shameful.”
The Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, was expected to arrive at Durban harbour at 3pm on Sunday, Greenpeace representative Sara Holden said.
Former African National Congress (ANC) chief whip Tony Yengeni asked Michael Woerfel to get him a luxury car at a 50% discount, the businessman said on Friday.
A top bomb-maker from the Islamic group Hamas accused of orchestrating the deaths of more than 100 Israelis was shot dead along with one of his lieutenants by elite Israeli troops.
Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh, whose pictures of British politician Winston Churchill, scientist Albert Einstein and author Ernest Hemingway earned his widespread recognition around the world, died on Saturday.
British forces geared up Friday for a major logistical exercise on home ground, as the defence ministry denied a press report that advance parties of British troops would soon deploy to Kuwait.
A Zimbabwe magistrate’s court on Wednesday dropped charges against three journalists accused of publishing falsehoods under the country’s tough media law, according to their paper, The Standard.
Sudan says it has extradited to Saudi Arabia an alleged al-Qaida member accused of firing a surface-to-air missile at a US aircraft.