India and China will challenge the West’s control over global trade rules with a united front at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) summit in Cancun this September.
It is old news — 251-million years old — but the story of what happened then, now told for the first time, demands our urgent attention. Only six degrees separate our world from the cataclysmic end of an ancient era.
The Anglican Church was on Monday struggling to repair a rift between its conservative and liberal wings on the issue of homosexuality after the nomination of an openly gay clergyman in Britain as a bishop.
In two weeks’ time scientists in Geneva will throw the switch on the biggest development in global communication since Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Internet, scrawled ”www” on a blackboard in 1989.
Adolf Hitler’s long, part-autobiographical book, Mein Kampf, is one of the most notorious books of the 20th century. Yet it was not his only book.
Irish police arrested a Nigerian man on Wednesday in connection with discovery of the dismembered torso of a boy found floating in the Thames in London in 2001.
The only thing worse than a world with the wrong international trade rules is a world with no trade rules at all. President George W Bush seems to be preparing to destroy the WTO at the next world trade talks in September, not because its rules are unjust, but because they are not unjust enough.
A drug widely used to spike the drinks of rape victims and sold over the Internet is to be outlawed from midnight on Monday, the British government has announced.
British company Cape Plc on Friday paid about R93-million in compensation to 7 500 South African workers who suffered a range of diseases after being exposed to asbestos at work. Gencor Ltd. will also pay about R39,7-million to Cape claimants who were also exposed to asbestos while working for Gencor.
The United States and United Kingdom were accused this week of ”callous disregard” for the health of Iraqis and the fate of radioactive substances near a looted nuclear site south of Baghdad.
Groundwater, the source of life for two billion people, is diminishing almost everywhere in the world, says a recent study by the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep).
The United States reserves the right to take military action against Iran over its nuclear programme, a senior member of the US administration said on Friday, but added that any such move was ”far from our minds” at present.
Microsoft has taken the unprecedented step of launching two legal actions in Britain against distributors of unsolicited junk e-mail as part of a global attempt to halt the spam epidemic.
United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is planning to put forward detailed proposals at the United Nations for reform of the Security Council to try to mend some of the damage done by disagreements over the Iraq war.
For the first time, Roald Dahl’s drafts, jottings and letters are being sorted and catalogued, offering fresh insights into the author’s mind, writes Steven Morris in London.
German researchers say the existing anti-viral drug Glycyrrhizin could be useful in the treatment of Sever Acute respiratory syndrome (Sars), according to a report in the British medical publication The Lancet.
Scottish scientists, renowned for creating Dolly the cloned sheep, on Tuesday secured a British government licence permitting controversial stem cell research using human embryos.
Researchers in Canada are testing a prototype vaccine that could halt the spread of brain-wasting diseases such as scrapie, BSE (mad cow’s disease) and its human form, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
British military police are investigating the deaths of two men in custody in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday.
Imagine a city that functions like a rainforest, soaking up greenhouse gases instead of emitting them. John Harrison, a Tasmanian inventor, says this can be achieved just by changing the mix of the cement we use.
ExxonMobil, the world’s largest stock-listed oil corporation, will run into trouble at its annual meeting this week.
The scene seems familiar. The United States tables a draft resolution on Iraq at the United Nations Security Council. Delegates huddle behind closed doors.
Barbara Trapido left South Africa in 1963, but she revisits her homeland in her new novel, writes Libby Brooks from London.
The climate of impunity in Africa must be urgently addressed if widespread human rights abuses are to be stemmed, Amnesty International said on Wednesday in its annual report.
Leaders of the world’s Anglican churches said on Tuesday that they cannot support ceremonies blessing homosexual relationships, which one bishop in Canada has permitted.
Al-Qaeda isn’t finished. Its structure – devolved, barely organised by conventional standards – can survive any number of strikes at individual bases.
British-based brewer SABMiller reported Thursday a 27% increase in underlying pre-tax profits and said it was set fair to keep up its momentum through this year despite an uncertain economic outlook.
A British campaign group called on governments last week to clamp down on big oil companies, as it provided evidence of the damaging impact of the industry on the global economy.
United Kingdom government ministers plan to extend the fluoridation of tap water in England and Wales, believing that proven benefits to dental health outweigh civil liberties objections and the possibility of increased medical risk.
Al-Qaeda remains a ”potent” international terrorist network with more than 18 000 trained members at large in up to 90 countries, and could take a generation to dismantle, a leading international affairs think-tank warned last week.
Opponents of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s government will stage a protest outside London’s Lord’s cricket ground when the first Test between England and Zimbabwe starts there on Thursday.
United States President George Bush launched a legal challenge at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) this week to force Europe to accept imports of US genetically modified (GM) crops.