Jalalabad, Kabul | Wednesday FIFTEEN people have been killed by the United States when bombs destroyed a mosque and surrounding houses in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, the Taliban’s ambassador to Pakistan told a press conference on Thursday. ”In this mosque which was demolished by a US attack 15 people have reported to have […]

A 44-year-old woman from Khorixas has been arrested for double rape after she allegedly had sexual intercourse with two young boys. One of the boys is thought to be only 10 years old. The age of his co-complainant is not known. The incident is said to have taken place near the power station at Khorixas […]

BEN MACLENNAN, Cape Town | Tuesday THE Medical Research Council (MRC) said on Tuesday it stood firmly by its controversial report on Aids deaths, and that South Africa was experiencing an epidemic of “shattering” proportions. The report, which says Aids accounted for one in four deaths in South Africa last year, came under fire from […]

THE British media and financial information group Reuters unveiled plans on Tuesday to axe 500 jobs in a bid to cut annual costs by a further 30-million pounds (48-million euros, $44-million). The job cuts are in addition to 1 100 staff laid off in July, Reuters said, and will help it increase savings next year […]

Pretoria | Tuesday SOUTH African farmers opposed to the repatriation of some 15 000 Zimbabwean farm workers reached an out-of-court settlement with the government on Monday, giving the workers a temporary reprieve. The farmers filed for an urgent interdict in the Pretoria High Court to prevent the country from expelling the workers, whose work permits […]

A WOMAN died on Friday in northern Egypt at the age of 137, according to local authorities, thus laying claim to having been the world’s longest-living person. Amina Hassabo, who died in a village in the Daquahliya governate in the Nile delta was born in 1864, according to government services. According to the Al-Wafd daily, […]