Two men and a boy were due to appear in Mpumalanga courts on Monday on charges of raping two girls in separate incidents over the weekend, police said. In the first incident, a 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 23-year-old man when she went to visit him with a friend on Saturday.
Cape Town’s central business district, which has already been the recipient of about 1 100 new hotel rooms in the past five years will be the site of at least nine more new hotels in the next two years, according to the Cape Town Partnership.
The price-structure report released by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) last month on Telkom’s ADSL service has solicited further political backing, with the Independent Democrats also joining the fray on Monday. The Patricia de Lille-led ID endorsed Icasa’s report on "inflated" fees.
Japan’s Upper House of Parliament voted down legislation to split up and sell the country’s postal service on Monday, prompting Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to follow through on a threat to call snap elections that could shake the ruling party’s grip on power.
Crude futures rose to a new high of ,69 in Asian trading on Monday as the United States government announced the closure of its embassy and consulates in Saudi Arabia due to security threats and on continued concerns that earlier shutdowns of US oil refineries would reduce supply.
Scores of the United States’s richest people have pledged -million or more towards a new attempt to reinvigorate the American left and counter the powerful Republican political machine. The money will be funnelled through an organisation called the Democracy Alliance which will help fund a network of thinktanks and advocacy groups
The former chief of the Iraq oil-for-food programme resigned on Sunday, a day before investigators release a report that is expected to accuse him of taking kickbacks. Benon Sevan accused United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan of failing to stand by him and blasted the independent inquiry committee investigating allegations of corruption.
On the eve of the anniversary on Tuesday of Nagasaki’s devastation 60 years ago by the ”Fat Man” atomic bomb, a steady stream of tourists flowed past the horrific exhibits at the city’s memorial museum. There is a clock, its glass smashed and bent hands frozen at exactly 11:02, the moment of the blast.
A new German book of popular legal errors seeks to end years of Anglo-German holiday bickering over the rights and wrongs of bagging the best sun loungers with the strategic deployment of towels. British tourists have gained an unlikely ally in the form of German lawyer Ralf Höcker, who said that his research had revealed that leaving towels on loungers was not legally binding.
Downloads at Apple’s iTunes Music Store have reached a million tunes in Japan in just four days, the company said on Monday. Apple Computer, which has scored a hit in Japan with its iPod portable music player, started its music download service in Japan last Thursday with one million songs.