Banda to monitor Kenyan polls

NAIROBI. – The Carter Centre announced yesterday that former Zambian President Rupiah Banda and the Centre’s Vice President for Peace Programmes John Stremlau will co-lead the Centre’s 60-person delegation

Moscow won’t apologise to US

MOSCOW. — Moscow will not apologise to the United States over the situation around a three-year-old Russian child who died in a US foster family, a senior diplomat said yesterday. “I don’t understand what apology in the given context one

Freddy Mercury’s grave found

LONDON. — Late Queen singer Freddie Mercury’s final resting place may have been discovered in west London after 21 years of mystery over what happened to his remains. A plaque seemingly dedicated to the late Queen

Update:Sheikh Saud returns home

Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter
Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah and member of the Supreme Council of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Saud Bin Al Saqr Qasimi

Three dead, seven wounded in Swiss factory shooting

GENEVA — A 42-year-old employee killed two workmates and wounded seven when he opened fire in a Swiss factory yesterday, rocking the small community where the plant is located. Police said the gunman, who also died, had

Temptation singer Harris dies

OTIS “DAMON” HARRIS, who as first tenor of the Motown ensemble The Temptations and sang on such 1970s hits as “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” has died at the age of 62, US news media reported. Prostate cancer was the

Jada Pinkett Smith spoils son Jaden

LOS ANGELES. — Having already starred in a number of hit movies and with a music career in the works, Jaden Smith is no ordinary 14-year-old.
And on Monday, his actress mother Jada Pinkett Smith took him shopping for an

MDC-T hijacks funeral

Takunda Maodza in HEADLANDS
MDC-T has hijacked the funeral of Christpower Maisiri (12) of Headlands, who died in an inferno last Saturday night amid calls by Cabinet for law enforcers to get to the bottom of the fatal incident. Preliminary police investigations

Nigeria police confirm release of 6 hostages

YENAGOA. — Six foreigners abducted by pirates off Nigeria’s southern coast of Bayelsa State were on Tuesday freed unhurt, local police authorities have said. Kingsley Omire, commissioner of police in Bayelsa State, said the

Peter Turkson favourite to replace Pope Benedict

LONDON — Ghana’s Peter Turkson is the Irish bookmakers’ favourite to replace Pope Benedict, putting a non-European in pole position to lead the 12 billion-member Roman Catholic Church for the first time in more than a millennium. Irish bookmaker Paddy

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