An original eye patch worn by legendary Israeli chief of staff and statesman Moshe Dayan is being offered for a staggering $75 000 (about R501 000) on internet auction site eBay. The sellers obtained the eyepatch from a bodyguard of the late minister, who acquired it and a .38 calibre revolver minutes after Dayan died in 1981.
A suspected cannibal who allegedly murdered his niece and then roasted and ate her right thigh is expected to appear in the Harding Magistrate’s Court in southern KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Zandra Hechter said the man was arrested on Sunday after he allegedly killed his sister’s three-year-old daughter and attempted to kill her other children.
A Dutch court on Tuesday handed down a life sentence against Mohammed Bouyeri, a Dutch-Moroccan Islamic radical who was convicted of killing Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, and ruled the murder was a terrorist act. Van Gogh was well known for his scathing criticism of Islam and the multicultural society.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair made an impassioned plea on Tuesday for the world to unite against terrorism and refuse to "give one inch" to their demands. Blair also said he supports giving police expanded powers of detention under proposed changes to anti-terrorist laws in the wake of the London bombings.
Steven Spielberg’s next film finally has a title: Munich. DreamWorks and Universal, which are co-financing the film, announced the name on Monday for the long-untitled thriller, which focuses on the aftermath of the killings of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
A lawyer acting for former Senegalese prime minister Idrissa Seck said on Monday that his client was ready to fight allegations of overspending on a roads programme. After a meeeting with Seck, Boucounta Diallo said his client, who is in jail in Dakar, was ” full of humour, ready to face the accusations aimed at him and to fight”.
More than two dozen ecumenical bodies across the world on Tuesday called for an investigation into the shooting by police of Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) protesters, the same day the organisation marched in Queenstown to hand over a memorandum deploring alleged police brutality.
Guinness World Record blood donor Maurice Creswick drank his 350th free cup of tea in Johannesburg on Tuesday after breaking his own record for the 14th time. Creswick (79) donated his first pint of blood at the old Johannesburg General hospital when he was 18 years old.
Portugal’s oldest woman, and one of the oldest people in the world, has died at the age of 114, Portuguese media reported on Tuesday, quoting members of her family. Maria do Couto Maia, born on October 24 1890, had been confined to bed for the past three years after scalding her feet in an accident at home with boiling water.
The vetting of recruits to Iraq’s police force is so poor that many who join up have criminal records, are barely literate, or are members of the insurgency, a new United States government report has concluded. The report said that while training for the new Iraqi police force had improved, there were still a number of serious problems.