Doctors in Iraq’s second biggest city, Basra, yesterday warned of an epidemic as a majority of the 1,3-million residents were still without safe drinking water three weeks after the war began.
Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, gave his strongest indication yesterday that he expected to see a Palestinian state and was willing to evacuate controversial settlements to achieve peace.
The US soldiers swooped at 8am, fanning out along the embankment then storming the luxury riverside estate of their prey — the queen of spades on America’s list of the 55 most wanted officials of Saddam Hussein’s regime.
The Battle of Zuwiyah will not go down in world history as a turning point, but in the personal histories of the men who took part, it may.
Every day since he was secretly spirited into Iraq by the US military just over a week ago, Ahmed Chalabi, the man favoured by the Pentagon to succeed Saddam Hussein, has been holding court with local dignitaries in Nassiriya.
Five more Sars patients have died in Hong Kong, health officials said yesterday. The latest deaths from the flu-like, severe acute respiritory syndrome pushed Hong Kong’s total to 40 and, together with three more fatalities reported in Singapore, took the global toll to at least 133.
If economic growth "picks up very quickly", South Africa could run out of power by as early as 2007, a power regulation expert at the National Electricity Regulator (NER) told Parliament this week.
It seems to be an unavoidable fact of the human condition that former altar boys, especially the Catholic ones, end up being the best revolutionaries.
The flamboyant tycoon behind Mpumalanga’s infamous R50-billion Dolphin Deal has been arrested in Kenya after almost a decade on the run.
Mohammad Kaif struck an unbeaten 95 to power India to a 153-run victory over South Africa in the three-nation tournament here on Sunday.