Dana Reeve, the widow of Superman actor Christopher Reeve, has been diagnosed with lung cancer, she announced on Tuesday. Reeve (44) who spent nine years caring for her husband after he was paralysed in a riding accident, said she had decided to disclose her illness because a tabloid newspaper was about to print the story
Thieves spent three months tunneling under a busy city avenue in northeastern Brazil to break into a Central Bank vault and pull off one of the world’s biggest heists. The robbery netted 156-million reals (,8-million) from a vault at the Central Bank in the city of Fortaleza, 2 500km northeast of São Paulo.
A recent survey has uncovered mixed feelings about HIV vaccines. One of the discoveries was that several people believe an HIV vaccine already exists.
The monkey temples on the resort island of Bali are a perfect photo opportunity for tourists feeding bananas to man’s closest relative, but most visitors are likely unaware they’re at risk of contracting a little-known retrovirus recently found to jump from primates to people in Asia.
Rescuers on Wednesday recovered the body of one miner from a flooded southern China coal shaft as hopes of finding 122 still trapped underground faded, state media reported. Authorities also suspended two mayors who had jurisdiction over
mines in the area, the official Xinhua news agency said.
A South African man has lost an eye after being attacked by a gang of ten youths in London, media reports said on Wednesday. Grant Nock (26) who has been living in London for over a year, underwent eye surgery in the British capital on Monday where his right eye was removed.
Dan Amiel never doubted the inevitable course of history in his patch of the Gaza strip, or his place in the struggle to make it happen. As a rough sign of his intent, he gestures to a painting on the wall of the community hall in Kfar Darom depicting the borders of the ancient state of Israel running deep into what is now Jordan and far into the Egyptian Sinai.
About 6 000 members of the Zimbabwean military are to receive plots under the government’s land reform programme, President Robert Mugabe said on Tuesday. Mugabe told thousands gathered at a Harare stadium to mark Defence Forces Day that some members of the military had been given land under the programme launched five years ago.
Tropical depression Irene was getting better organised in the central Atlantic, forecasters said, but still posed no immediate threat to land. Irene had top sustained winds of 56kph on Tuesday night, just below the 63km threshold to become a tropical storm. Forecasters said it was possible for Irene to
strengthen into a tropical storm by Wednesday, but said the forecast wasn’t clear.
The South African Reserve Bank’s two-day monetary policy committee meeting got under way in Pretoria on Wednesday morning, the central bank confirmed. The key decision on interest rates is expected to be announced by governor Tito Mboweni at around 3.3ppm on Thursday afternoon.