Voting had not begun in several southeastern Nigerian cities by 2:00 pm (1300 GMT) on Saturday, just one hour before the planned close of polling in historic legislative elections.
Science is now failing where the caveman’s instinct triumphed. After surviving undisturbed for 20 000 years, the prehistoric wall paintings at Lascaux in central France are threatened with irreparable damage by modern man’s attempts to save them.
They come in single file, a line of ragged gunmen, slapping 30 pairs of black gumboots down the orange forest-track. Without pausing, the lead man unshoulders his rifle and swings left. The next turns right.
A commercial and creative meeting of the popular culture of the East and the West is destined to make Bond 21 the most lucrative James Bond adventure of all time.
Kurdish peshmerga guerrillas were advancing on Tikrit, the powerbase of Saddam Hussein’s regime, last night as reports from the city suggested resistance had collapsed except for skirmishing.
The United States has pledged to tackle the Syrian-backed Hizbollah group in the next phase of its ‘war on terror’ in a move which could threaten military action against President Bashar Assad’s regime in Damascus.
Saddam Hussein’s senior weapons adviser has surrendered to US military authorities, insisting that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction and that the US-led invasion was unjustified.
A Zimbabwean soldier in the British army, who died this week serving in Iraq, has been condemned as a ”mercenary” and a ”sell-out” by President Robert Mugabe’s state media.
Activists, fearing the Iraq war will sidetrack the fight against poverty, warned on Friday the world is sliding on its commitments to Africa.
Free State health MEC Auma Tsopo on Friday announced that nevirapine for pregnant women and rapid test kits were now available at all hospitals and health complexes in the province.