FORTY people travelling in a truck were killed and 30 others injured when the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle due to faulty brakes, the Catholic radio station Ecclesia reported late on Monday. The accident took place on Sunday near Kulu in Uije province, about 300 kilometers north of the capital Luanda. The vehicle, […]

UP to 800 people are believed to have been killed at the Pentagon building when a hijacked plane slammed into it earlier Tuesday, US media reported. The reports quoted an unnamed Arlington County official as giving the unofficial toll, as rescue crews continued to dig through debris following the attack that destroyed a section of […]

RAJA ASGHAR, Islamabad | Wednesday AID workers and diplomats began pulling out of Afghanistan on Wednesday after suspicions centred on Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden, sheltered by the Taliban government, for horrific attacks in the United States. The United Nations said it was temporarily relocating its 80 expatriate staff in Afghanistan to neighbouring Pakistan. Australian, […]

AN international health body has turned to a new medium, public transport buses, to try to reach out to millions of Kenyans in the fight against the deadly HIV/Aids. The International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) on Monday distributed thousands of posters and stickers to Kenya’s public commuter buses in this Indian Ocean port city for […]

MPUMALANGA may be home to the first black leopard spotted in sub-Saharan Africa in 40 years. Mpumalanga Parks Board representative Gary Sutter said on Monday that two confirmed sitings of a rare black leopard had been reported in mountains in Lydenburg in January and again in May. “It’s an ordinary leopard, but it has a […]

LAMIA RADI, Cairo | Wednesday EGYPTIAN students, taxi drivers and shopkeepers crowded round television sets stacked up in electrical store windows in downtown Cairo on Tuesday evening, celebrating a string of elaborate attacks on New York and Washington. “Bullseye,” commented two taxi drivers as they watched footage of the twin towers of the World Trade […]

JOHN SPECK, London | Wednesday THE destruction of the World Trade Center in New York on Tuesday effectively paralysed the US financial system but on Wednesday the rest of the global capitalist system fought huge headaches and carried on. ”I do not thing New York being closed will make any real difference to the world […]

Beijing | Wednesday PEOPLE on the streets of Chinese cities reacted with shock on Wednesday to the terror attacks which struck New York and Washington, but some argued the US was reaping the returns of its own foreign policies. Newspaper stands across Beijing and elsewhere were stripped bare of papers by early morning as passers-by […]

AT least eight people were killed when an Intercity bus overturned between Qumbu and Mount Frere in the Eastern Cape on Monday evening. Police representative Superintendent Faith Noqayi said the accident appeared to have occurred around 8pm. – Sapa

Kabul | Wednesday A SERIES of explosions rocked Afghanistan’s capital Kabul early on Wednesday but US officials swiftly denied they were retaliatory strikes for terror attacks in the United States. An AFP reporter in the city heard seven or eight large blasts followed by what sounded like anti-aircraft fire and Taliban militia jets taking off […]