SABMiller Plc, the world’s second-biggest brewer, said on Tuesday that earnings continued to grow despite some tough markets, giving its shares a boost, but brewing industry analysts were not all impressed.
Gold remained locked in the midst of its current range although prices backpedalled as the dollar rose against the euro and resistance again went unchallenged.
The Iraqi National Congress was to meet Friday in London with former army officers, opponents of President Saddam Hussein and a US official to discuss ways of toppling his regime.
Helen has not heard from her parents for two years since they left El Salvador to work illegally in the United States. She has run away from her aunt’s house to live with a gang. ‘My parents think I’m a little angel,’ she says, making horns with her fingers above her head, ‘but really I’m a little devil.’ She is 13 and she has already killed a man.
President George Bush last night said he was confident that the vote will be held today on a UN resolution that would disarm Saddam Hussein by seeing the return to Iraq of the weapons inspectors as early as the week after next.
Police in South Africa raided homes of suspected white militants across the country yesterday in the biggest security sweep since terrorists started a bombing campaign to destabilise the government.
The Russian government may claim its use of fentanyl, a heroin-like chemical 100 times more potent than morphine, was unavoidable in the circumstances of the Moscow hostage crisis.
Iraq has military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons, Britain said on Tuesday in a dossier of evidence about Iraq’s development of weapons of mass destruction.
Iraq stepped up its charm offensive towards the United Nations weapons inspectors yesterday by quickly letting them into one of Saddam Hussein’s Baghdad palaces when they turned up for a surprise search.
A little way off the Californian coast, near the island of San Clemente, the men of the USS Constellation’s squadrons were last week going through their paces to ready themselves for war.
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.
Brewing giant SABMiller Plc reported a 24 percent rise in half-year profits on Thursday and said it would cut costs in a bid to win over American beer drinkers.
In May 1962, a little-known band called the Beatles were playing in Hamburg’s Star Club when they received a telegraph from their manager Brian Epstein in London: ”Congratulations, boys, EMI requests recording session. Please, rehearse new material”.
South African Breweries agreed on Thursday to buy Miller Brewing from Philip Morris in a ,6-billion deal.
Indonesian police have released sketches of three suspects believed to have planted the bombs that destroyed two nightclubs in Bali and killed nearly 200 people.
A Paris court yesterday cleared Michel Houellebecq, the enfant terrible of French letters, of provoking religious and racial hatred by calling Islam ”the most stupid of religions”.
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein plans to pay Libya billions of dollars to secure political asylum for his family and senior members of the Baghdad regime in the event of a war with the West.
The world’s top nuclear inspector said yesterday that it may take 12 months to discover whether Iraq has weapons of mass destruction — a view that is likely to irritate Washington hawks.
Shares in global financial information provider Reuters Group Plc slumped on Wednesday after it reported weaker-than-expected revenues for the third quarter and painted a worsening outlook.
The hoarse, breathless voice of Osama bin Laden knocked the White House back on the defensive yesterday at a time when it is trying to focus national attention on a looming confrontation with Iraq.
Drug manufacturers are set to launch sexual pick-me-ups that will last from Friday night to Sunday morning. The weekend sex drugs — to be launched next year — will have the same impact as Viagra, but will have effects that will last for days, not hours.
Police in Britain arrested more than 30 suspected Internet paedophiles in a swoop targeting computer users accessing pay-per-view child sex websites based in the United States.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, said that he felt ”a degree of compassion” for young Palestinian suicide bombers, a day after one blew himself up on a bus in Jerusalem, killing 19 Israelis.
The scene is set for psychoanalysis. The comfortable sofa is oatmeal. A box of tissues is within easy reach, held in place by two wooden dolls — one crying, the other with its arms crossed, sulking. A collection of ethnic masks hangs grimacing from a wall.
The beauty queens had only been gone a few hours, forced to flee Nigeria by raging violence. But as the Rev Joseph Hayab raised his hands to preach in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, thoughts of Miss World were an eternity away.
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on Friday ruled out blocking aid to African nations that fail to take action against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
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.