Failed asylum seekers in the United Kingdom will not be sent back to Zimbabwe until the high court considers new evidence on whether it is ”safe” to resume deportations, a judge ruled on Thursday. The British home office also agreed to consider releasing 30 Zimbabweans in detention awaiting being sent back to Harare.
For decades, Ethiopia has been plagued by cyclical drought and chronic hunger with children worst hit. Preventable diseases and malnutrition on average kill up to half a million Ethiopian children a year, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund.
A Russian mini-submarine with seven sailors aboard got caught on a fishing net and is stuck on the sea floor off Russia’s Pacific Coast, navy officials said on Friday. Navy authorities have scrambled to try to figure out how to raise the vessel from a depth of about 190m amid conflicting statements on how long the air supply will last.
Namibia’s government is set to serve final notices of expropriation on 18 white commercial farmers after it failed to reach an agreement on the price of the land in the arid Southern African country. ”If there is no other solution, then that is the way to go,” Lands Minister Jerry Ekandjo said late on Thursday.
The United Association of South Africa (Uasa) hopes to know by the end of business on Friday whether it will join two other unions in South Africa’s first gold-mining strike in more than a decade. The union is currently consolidating the strike ballots it has been receiving since Wednesday.
"No, I would not," Pick ‘n Pay CEO Sean Summers answered adamantly when asked whether he would have joined recent strike action if he were an average worker in his company. Reesha Chibba spoke to the man who has led his company through two major crises: the poisoning scare in 2003 and this year’s massive, 11-day strike.
A man was sentenced on Thursday to more than seven years in prison for sexually assaulting a woman sleeping next to him on an airline flight. Deepak Jahagirdar (55) a former health care executive from Scottsdale, Arizona, was convicted in April of sexually abusing and having abusive sexual contact with the woman, then 22.
A day before the United States dropped the world’s first nuclear weapon on Hiroshima, Akie Yoshikawa remembered the sky was full of American B-29 bombers and they were flying like ”swallows”. But she was not particularly concerned.
If it tastes good it must be good for you, seems to be one of those natural assumptions that often prove incorrect, unfortunately. Thai cuisine, which has made rapid strides in international popularity over the past decade, is apparently no exception to this gloomy gastronomical rule, although the good news is that it’s certainly a lot healthier than junk food.
Thierry Henry doesn’t plan to follow Patrick Vieira out of Arsenal. The star striker instead wants a new contract with Arsenal to coincide with the captaincy he inherited from Vieira. He’ll lead his team on Sunday when the FA Cup winners meet league champions Chelsea in the Community Shield.