WOUTER Basson, dubbed ?Dr Death? was on Monday acquitted on 15 out of 61 charges ranging from murder and fraud to drug trafficking. Basson will still have to answer to 46 other charges ranging from murder and fraud. Basson was acquitted during a brief hearing on Monday in the Pretoria High Court and the judge […]
New York | Tuesday UNITED States prosecutors will ask a Manhattan jury on Tuesday to send a follower of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden to his death for the 1998 bombing of the US Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Prosecutors are scheduled to begin the penalty phase of the case against Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, […]
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Can Tomb Raider the movie succeed where other video game spinoffs have flopped? Shahriar Khan talks to its star Angelina Jolie and director Simon West.
It’s a typical starlet’s career. She starts out in video, one cult success leading to a number of sequels. Then the media get hold of her – Time magazine, Newsweek. Pretty soon there’s a string of lookalikes, websites with supposed ‘nudie pictures’, soft drink commercials, and now the biopic. Only this starlet doesn’t really exist.
Johannesburg | Monday SA President Thabo Mbeki is under pressure to resolve a public spat between two senior members of his ruling African National Congress (ANC) over a multi-million dollar pay package awarded to former airline boss Coleman Andrews. Mbeki’s intervention is expected in the week-old dispute over the $28-million paid to Andrews, credited with […]
FOREIGN oil firms working in southern Sudan are “legitimate targets” for attack, John Garang, the leader of the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), said in an interview published on Sunday. “We hold the (Sudanese) government responsible for losses that could be suffered by workers and companies operating in the oil fields,” Garang told Al-Hayat […]
Evelyn Leopold, United Nations | Monday A WEEK before a major U.N. Aids conference, delegates are still embroiled on what to say about sex — among prostitutes, homosexuals and outside of marriage in general, according to a frank document on combating the killer disease. The negotiations, says Iranian Ambassador Bagher Asadi, should not turn into […]
“MISS Nigeria” has been stripped of her crown for lying about her age and academic qualifications, the newspaper group that sponsored this year’s pageant announced on Saturday. The Daily Times of Nigeria said that Valerie Ama Peterside was dethroned “over irregularities discovered with regard to her age and academic qualifications.” She was not born in […]
MALAWI President Bakili Muluzi said on Saturday his government would spend 40-million kwacha ($533,000) to build a high-tech tomb for the late dictator Kamuzu Banda. “I don’t want a cheap tomb. I will fire the committee looking into this construction if it does shoddy work,” Muluzi said as he laid a wreath at Banda’s grave […]