A MALAWIAN court has sentenced a 60-year-old woman to seven years in jail for infecting an 11-year-old boy with HIV, the virus that causes Aids, police said on Wednesday. Police publicist Oliver Soko said the woman, Emmie Nkumbira, forced the boy to have sex with her on August 24. The boy revealed the incident to […]

Islamabad | Tuesday US WARPLANES on Tuesday continued to pound Taliban targets in Afghanistan, killing ”tens of civilians,” as well as four Afghans employed by the United Nations, according to the militia. In the first daytime raids of the three-day-old air assault, missiles are also said to have destroyed the former Kandahar home of Taliban […]

A FARMER from Waterpoort near Louis Trichardt appeared in court on Wednesday after apparently setting his dogs on three Zimbabwean job-seekers. Captain Ailwei Mushavhanamadi said the men approached Jacobus du Plessis for work and he told them he had none to offer. He then allegedly set his dogs on the men. Two of the men […]

AN explosion at a scrap metal yard in a northern city killed its owner and injured six others, four of them seriously, police said on Wednesday. It was unclear what caused the blast in Mzuzu, and an explosives expert had been sent to the scene to investigate. Witnesses said a huge explosion was heard in […]

Kabul | Monday AMERICAN wrath over the worst terrorist atrocities in history was finally unleashed as US and British forces launched air and cruise missile attacks on Taliban targets across Afghanistan. An onslaught that began after nightfall on Sunday, nearly four weeks after the devastating attacks on New York and Washington, continued throughout the night. […]

A 53-year-old man was arrested on Thursday night for allegedly killing his 19-year-old son at their home in Ladysmith, Kwazulu-Natal police said on Friday. Captain Vishnu Naidoo said the father and the son were arguing at their home in Camp Drive when a shot went off. The son, who was hit in the face, died […]

Washington | Tuesday US authorities are now on their highest state of alert as Americans battened down for possible terrorist reprisals for the military offensive launched in Afghanistan. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced the alert as US forces struck at Kabul’s Taliban regime for a second day and Washington served notice it might take its […]

Luanda | Thursday UNITA rebels kidnapped 16 children who attending mass in a Roman Catholic church in Angola’s northern Kwanza-Norte province, Bishop Luis Escarpa said on Thursday, Radio Ecclesia reported. Guerrillas of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Unita) burst into the church at Kiluanji as mass was being celebrated on Sunday, […]

THE United Nations and its secretary-general Kofi Annan won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for ”their work for a better organised and more peaceful world.” – Sapa-AFP Thursday October 11, 2001

Afghanistan | Tuesday BRITISH journalist Yvonne Ridley spoke late on Monday of her delight at being freed by her Taliban captors — and her desperation to return home to see her daughter Daisy. After crossing the Afghanistan border into Pakistan, the 43-year-old Sunday Express reporter told Sky News: ”I’m fine, it’s good to be here. […]