At the start of the first sitting of the Pan African Parliament in Midrand on Tuesday the lack of finance for the continental body was again a major theme. In her opening speech, president of the Parliament Gertrude Mongella said the body was sending a delegation to the African Union sitting next week to discuss the supplementary budget for the Parliament.
Shane Warne has firmly rubbished rumours of an impending return to Australia’s limited overs squad. Warne, back in the United Kingdom for the start of a county season with Hampshire, said he had no intention of coming out of his self-imposed one-day international retirement.
About 100 people were left stranded in mid-air when a monorail train stuck at the Rand Show in Johannesburg on Monday night, emergency services said. Spokesperson Malcolm Midgley said on Tuesday that no one was injured, but a 12-year-old girl was treated for shock and hyperventilation. ”She just panicked a bit,” he said.
At least 17 soldiers and five civilians are under investigation for the rape of an 11-year-old girl at an Israeli air base, the military confirmed on Monday. A spokesperson for the Israeli army told the local press that the incident was very grave and ”seriously deviates from appropriate behavioural norms and values”.
The former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith won a victory in the United States supreme court on Monday in her fight to pursue a share of her late husband’s fortune. In a protracted and wildly fluctuating case, the decision addresses an arcane issue of law concerning the jurisdiction of courts involved in the case.
Travelling through the big sky country of Montana in the north-western United States it is hard to believe that anything could be awry. Piebald ponies graze in their pastures, deer munch grass by the side of the road, and people are few and far between. But a series of billboards are disfiguring the views of the Rockies.
Martha Stewart, America’s ”diva of domesticity”, is launching a magazine showing thirty-something women how to live ”better and more gracefully”, although handy hints on staying out of jail are mysteriously absent from the first issue. Blueprint: Design Your Life is part of an attempt at a comeback by Stewart (64) who spent five months in a Connecticut correctional facility in 2004 to 2005.
On almost any day, at almost any time, children dressed in rags with bottles filled with glue pressed to their faces stake out the major intersections of Kenya’s capital. No one is sure how many children live on the streets of this city of three million, but they certainly number in the tens of thousands.
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The state has to prove Jacob Zuma is HIV-positive and that was why he could allegedly rape an HIV-positive woman, his defence told the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday. Zuma’s lawyer Kemp J Kemp said the state’s argument that the former deputy president was HIV-positive was ”totally flawed”.
A group of alleged Somali pirates captured by the United States navy in March have been freed and returned home to lawless Somalia after the US declined to prosecute them, officials said on Tuesday. Ten of the 12 suspected pirates detained on March 18 after firing on US warships in the Indian Ocean off the Somali coast have been handed over to the International Committee for the Red Cross.