South Africans should not expect large-scale tax relief in this year’s budget. It is likely that the focus will instead fall on social spending with, among others, the planned national pension fund and possibly a basic income subsidy as the core issues, notwithstanding the fact that room for tax relief for individuals does, in fact, exist.

The man tipped as most likely to succeed Tony Blair as Britain’s next prime minister suffered a blow on Tuesday when a newspaper poll showed voters far preferred the leader of the main opposition party. Asked which party they would back in a future election, just 29% said the governing Labour Party if — as expected — it was led by Finance Minister Gordon Brown.

With a pink hat and a broad smile, Jackie Kennedy looks out on the crowd gathered in downtown Dallas, only 90 seconds before the assassination that was to change the United States. You may think you’ve seen it before, but this image comes from a newly-discovered home movie handed into a Texas museum and released for the first time on Monday.

An Iranian website fiercely critical of the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been shut down in an apparent fresh crackdown on anti-government dissent on the internet. Baztab, a fundamentalist site which has previously accused Ahmadinejad of betraying the Islamic revolution by attending a female dance show, has been closed for acting against the Constitution