It is probably most accurate to call him Iraq’s president-elect. The moment President Saddam Hussein falls, Jay Garner will take over, with the kind of sweeping power over the whole of Iraq that even Saddam has been unable to exercise for the past few years.
Scientists in California have provided the first detailed look at how human antibodies may drive HIV to mutate.
An unexpectedly prolonged war in Iraq could trigger a world recession that would bite into South African export prospects — but the local economy should withstand the turbulence reasonably well, say economists.
An Australian court is to rule on whether a gay couple’s fear of homophobic discrimination in their home country is sufficient grounds for entitlement to refugee status.
Governments, popes and presidents should not try to control the use of genetic knowledge, the man who began the DNA revolution said yesterday.
Embattled KwaZulu-Natal Premier Lionel Mtshali has refused to cave in to demands by the African National Congress (ANC) to incorporate three of its members into his provincial cabinet after the power balance in the provincial legislature shifted in its favour.
Outstanding issues delaying peace in the Great Lakes region will be the focus of a meeting between four African leaders in Cape Town on Wednesday.
The Nepad peer review mechanism is a voluntary process and nine countries have signed up for the review, Professor Wiseman Nkuhlu, says the chairman of the Nepad Steering Committee.
Ousted deputy social services minister David Malatsi has gone to court in a bid to force the New National Party (NNP) to make him a member of parliament.