The British government has launched a formal investigation into allegations that a white Zimbabwean businessman — one of the richest men in Britain — has broken UK and European sanctions by supplying aircraft parts to the Zimbabwean air force.
A young boy’s headless, limbless torso washed up in the Thames, signs of a gruesome, ritual slaying and a police hunt that reaches from England to Africa: the murder of Adam was no ordinary killing.
Gold touched its highest level in nearly five years on Friday as India and Pakistan edged to the brink of war.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair is looking at ways of securing a fresh United Nations resolution to cover a US-led military strike against Iraq.
In 1986, when the world first heard of the events now known as the Iran-Contra affair, John Poindexter, then national security adviser, purged more than 5 000 incriminating emails. Unfortunately for Poindexter, backup files existed.
A truck bomb exploded outside a hotel popular with Israeli tourists on the Kenyan coast today, killing at least eight people.
Swaziland, the world’s only autocratic monarchy, is wreaking revenge on its former colonial master through its one lilangeni coin, which passes for a British one pound coin in size, weight and golden appearance, but is practically worthless.
As the reviled leader of a country crippled by sanctions and open to invasion, Saddam Hussein does not automatically spring to mind as a good business prospect.
The British Museum on Tuesday acknowledged a ”compelling” claim that four old master drawings in its possession had been looted by the Nazis during World War II from a private collection.
World gold mine production is set to drop by three percent in 2002, the first fall since 1995, while depleting reserves and falling production could lead to a longer-term decline in output, a leading commodities consultancy said on Tuesday.
UP to 50 British police officers were injured with six needing hospital treatment after trouble erupted following a English first division football match, Scotland Yard said on Friday.
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Friday ruled out blocking aid to African nations that fail to take action against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
The case brought by 7 500 South African mineworkers against UK multinational, Cape Plc, has taken a new turn as London-based and local lawyers join forces and challenge the terms of Gencor’s proposed unbundling in the Cape Town High Court.
The US and Britain lack ”killer” intelligence that will prove conclusively that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, according to sources in London and New York.
Ariel Sharon has laid out his terms for Palestinian independence with a vision of an emasculated and demilitarised state built on less than half the land of the occupied territories, and without Yasser Arafat as its leader.
UN weapons inspectors have rejected criticism by the US and Iraq that they are failing to do their job properly.
United Nations weapons inspectors have said that Iraq provided full cooperation yesterday when they visited sites near Baghdad to hunt for illegal weapons.
Troubled British media group Reuters is poised to announce deep job cuts in its editorial workforce as it strives to contain the impact of a steep decline in revenues, the Financial Times said on Thursday.
British police have arrested a woman in connection with the murder of a boy whose mutilated torso was found in a river, a case which has prompted an extended probe into a suspected ritual killing.
UN weapons inspectors begin their work in Iraq today, launching a tense new chapter in the confrontation with Saddam Hussein in which war and peace are likely to hinge on the legal interpretation of two words: ”material breach”.
Jose Manuel Trillanes wrapped his yellow oilskins tight around his body and pointed out to where gale force winds were churning up the Atlantic ocean beyond the small fishing port of O Grove.
Leigh Day and Company, the lawyers representing several thousand South African asbestosis victims, said they would take legal action against Cape Plc for non-payment of expenses.
The biggest group of British companies since the Gulf War plans to travel to the Baghdad Trade Fair in November, brushing off threats of war and defying government advice to steer clear of Iraq.
Beer brands such as Castle, Ursus and Zero Clock may mean little to most Americans, but in emerging markets they have helped establish SAB as a leading global competitor.
The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, clashed with Washington yesterday over the enforcement of no-fly zones in Iraq by American and British warplanes.
Belgium’s 19th century royal palace has been given an unconventional makeover by one of the country’s most innovative artists, who has taken the unusual step of glueing 1,6-metre iridescent green beetles to its ceiling.
It was like the ”first day at school”, said a beaming Romano Prodi, surveying the European parliament yesterday as new boys and girls from Lithuania to Slovakia gave a foretaste of the future of the continent.
The German ambassador has attacked history teaching in British schools, claiming it fuels xenophobia by focusing solely on his country’s Nazi past. Thomas Matussek’s comments follow an assault on two German schoolboys by a gang of youths in London.
Concern over their daughter’s safety, following the recent murder of two 10-year-olds, have led her parents to allow a controversial British cybernetics expert to implant a tracking device in her.
Up to 10-million US health workers, police officers and firefighters are to be vaccinated against smallpox, according to a Bush administration official.
British forces geared up Friday for a major logistical exercise on home ground, as the defence ministry denied a press report that advance parties of British troops would soon deploy to Kuwait.
The only human contact Peter Shaw was allowed during the past four months was the sight of his kidnappers’ hands passing food down into the dank, underground hole where he lay chained at the neck.