THE caretaker of a mill in the southern town of Quss in Egypt, dreamt overnight he was killing his dog, awoke with a start and proceeded to open fire, wounding three soldiers, a police source said on Sunday. Yakoub Ashmawi, caretaker for Upper Egypt Mill, a company in Quss near Luxor, wounded the three soldiers […]

A CRIPPLED car carrier – listing heavily in swells off the South African coast – was under way on Monday under its own power and heading for a sheltered bay, a ports representative said. Terry Taylor said engineers on board the Panamanian-registered Modern Drive had got the ship’s engines going and that it was headed […]

MINISTERS, academics and industrialists from the Commonwealth countries on Monday opened the 40th Session of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Science Council in Cape Town. The one major purpose of the council is to enhance the capacity of its members to utilise science and technology for social, economic and environmental development. Ministers from Australia, […]

GOLD coins and mobile phones have rained down on people in southeast Egypt as a candidate, standing in the ongoing consultative council elections, decided to shower locals with incentives to sway their vote, a police source said on Sunday. Over the last four days, a glider bearing the name and election symbol of independent candidate […]

THE SA government is to open high profile public hearings on Monday into a controversial multi-billion dollar arms deal. It will be presided over by a panel made up of three agencies led by the Public Protector, Selby Baqwa. The agencies are the Public Protector, the Auditor General and the National Directorate for Public Prosecutions. […]

DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Sunday THE Sunday Times is leading with a story on a new book by Pick ‘n Pay tycoon Raymond Ackerman — which blames Sam Ramsamy of the National Olympic Committee of South Africa (Nocsa) for losing South Africa’s bid to hold the Olympics in Cape Town in 2004. The paper’s […]

LOCAL press reports on Friday said a massive oil spill has occurred on Ikevemor Island in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta, threatening the livelihood of about 60 villages in the area. A representative for the residents of the affected villages, Jacob Oyanimigha, said the spill resulted from a ruptured pipeline maintenance facility owned by Shell Petroleum […]

TWO officials from Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have been abducted, apparently by pro-government war veterans, MDC spokesman Learnmore Jongwe said on Sunday. MDC parliamentarian Abedinico Bhebhe was kidnapped on Saturday from a petrol station in Nkayi, 260km southwest of Harare, Jongwe said. Joel Sithole, the MDC candidate for council elections in the […]

ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe has cancelled his trip to Jakarta for the G-15 summit of developing nations after one of his top ministers died in a car crash, the state-run Sunday Mail reported. Mugabe was due to leave on Sunday for the May 30-31 summit in Indonesia. He cancelled the trip after defense minister Moven […]