Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride was in the Johannesburg High Court on Wednesday to oppose an application for an urgent restraining order against him. The application was postponed on Tuesday when it emerged that McBride had been told to be in court on the wrong day.
Bangladesh slumped to 72-4 on a rain-hit opening day of the third and final Test against Sri Lanka on Wednesday. The tourists lost the wickets of Javed Omar (8) and Habibul Bashar (18) before tea and then Rajin Saleh for a duck and Shariar Nafees for 29 in the final session.
The suspended chief designer of the McLaren Formula One team will provide a sworn declaration about how he obtained papers at the heart of an alleged spying row, a spokesperson for Ferrari said on Wednesday. Mike Coughlan is facing legal action brought by Ferrari at London’s High Court.
The South African government announced on Wednesday a series of events marking the 40th anniversary of the death of former African National Congress president Albert Luthuli, the first African to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The anti-apartheid icon, who received the 1960 Nobel Prize for his role in the struggle against white-only rule, died on July 21 1967.
The United States military expects al-Qaeda in Iraq to strike back with ”spectacular attacks” after a major offensive in and around Baghdad disrupted the network’s activities, a military spokesperson said on Wednesday. Brigadier General Kevin Bergner said 26 high-level al-Qaeda leaders in Iraq had been killed or captured in May and June.
Crime and violence are at crisis levels in Kenya in the build-up to elections as gangs terrorise the population and ”trigger-happy” police respond with impunity, human rights groups said on Wednesday. The Kenya Human Rights Network said 300 criminals, police officers, victims of land clashes and suspected members of a banned sect were killed in the last six months.
Ethiopian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered hominid fossil fragments dating from between 3,5-million and 3,8-million years ago in what could fill a crucial gap in the understanding of human evolution. Archaeologist Yohannes Haile Selassie said the find included several complete jaws and one partial skeleton.
A suicide bomber detonated explosives at an Algerian military barracks on Wednesday, killing himself and about eight other people in the restive Kabylie region east of Algiers, residents said. The blast 120km east of the capital was one of the worst rebel attacks in months.
About 160 Palestinians fled a refugee camp in north Lebanon on Wednesday as the Lebanese army prepared to launch a final assault against al-Qaeda-inspired militants holed up inside. Troops have been battling Fatah al-Islam fighters at Nahr al-Bared for nearly eight weeks.
The European Union’s Court of Justice on Wednesday annulled a European Union (EU) antitrust decision that had prevented South African giant De Beers from buying rough diamonds from Russian rival Alrosa. The EU court said that European Commission efforts to curb business between the two diamond operations was ”manifestly disproportionate”.