The UN has invited Madagascar’s President Marc Ravalomanana, sworn in as leader of the Indian Ocean island state in May after a long power struggle, to the Jo’burg Summit.
LAST-MINUTE efforts were underway on Sunday to find a compromise between rival factions in Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s right-wing Likud party ahead of a controversial vote to block the establishment of a Palestinian state.
The death of a 77-year-old-man at a Mafikeng initiation school at the weekend was caused by severe beatings.
Pakistan has taken its first ever anti-dumping action by imposing punitive taxes on tin imports from South Africa.
A section of the Great Wall of China that was lost beneath encroaching sands for centuries has been uncovered again, state media said on Wednesday.
Ten days after the end of recovery operations at the site of the World Trade Center, construction workers are still finding the remains of September 11 victims in buildings adjacent to Ground Zero.
Fighting impeachment attempts, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has admitted that he ordered 2001 military operations in which hundreds of civilians were killed, but insisted he had acted to ”save lives and property.”
Dogburgers will be on the menu for fans during the World Cup in South Korea.
A northeastern China coal mine where a gas explosion killed 115 workers last month had been instructed to shut down at least seven times before the fatal accident.