New York | Wednesday AVIATION authorities said an initial analysis of the cockpit voice recorder from the American Airlines crash here showed the pilots knew they were in trouble within two minutes of takeoff. ”There are several comments suggesting loss of control of the aircraft” two minutes and two seconds after Flight 587 began rolling […]

Dushanbe | Wednesday OUSTED Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani will return to Kabul on Wednesday to pronounce himself the leader of all territory captured by the anti-Taliban opposition, a senior Afghan envoy here said. ”He will lead the provinces liberated from the Taliban and also head the task of freeing provinces now under the control of […]

THE Swazi government has announced tough new laws to crackdown on money-laundering. The new Money-Laundering Act will be discussed at an international conference on the subject to open at the Royal Swazi Convention Centre in Mbabane on Monday. The new law aims to net businesses, banks or individuals that are engaged in money-laundering or are […]

Kabul | Tuesday NORTHERN Alliance security forces vowed Tuesday to restore order in Kabul after a dramatic advance into the Afghan capital through scenes of devastation caused by US bombing of Taliban positions. The opposition United Front sent police units and other security forces into Kabul early on Tuesday amid reports of sporadic shooting in […]

Cape Town | Monday TONY Yengeni has sold the luxury 4X4 Mercedes at the centre of corruption claims linked to the controversial arms deal – and splashed out on a R330 000 Volvo convertible. The Sunday Times reported that the former ANC Chief Whip was spotted a week ago cruising Cape Town’s Atlantic seaboard in […]

Cape Town | Monday NATIONAL Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka on Sunday defended the “integrity” of the joint investigation team’s report on the probe into the arms deal, saying much of the criticism was misplaced. Speaking on SABC’s Newsmaker programme, he denied allegations that the report was a “white-wash” or a “cover-up”. People who […]

TWENTY-six people were killed and 25 others hospitalised when a truck somersaulted on a road in northern Nigeria, a local radio station reported on Sunday. The accident occurred on Saturday along the Funtua-Zaria road in Kaduna State after a rear tyre burst. The report said 25 people died on the spot while one person died […]

AN HIV positive woman was gang-raped by four men in the city’s Motherwell township on Saturday, police said. Inspector Michael September said on Sunday the victim, Nomalinge Kupela (38) was asleep with her two young sons when the men burst into her shack and attacked her. She did not tell them she was HIV positive, […]

WEST Rand police were on Saturday investigating a murder case after a truck driver found the body of a 10-year-old girl on Hammer Road at Boltonia on Friday night, police said. Inspector Yolande Bouwer said the truck driver contacted police after he found the body of Joey van der Merwe. Her jacket and schoolbag were […]

A 13-YEAR-old boy was arrested on Saturday morning for allegedly raping a three-year-old girl in Kwazakhele township, Port Elizabeth, on Friday, police said. Superintendent Charmain Momberg said the toddler’s mother left the girl with her elder daughter and went to work. On Saturday morning, she discovered that the toddler had been raped and took the […]