SAfrican man wakes in morgue fridge

2011-07-26 09:19:47

A South African man awoke to find himself in a morgue fridge _ nearly a day after his family thought he had died, a health official said.

SAfrican man wakes in morgue fridge

2011-07-26 09:19:47

A South African man awoke to find himself in a morgue fridge _ nearly a day after his family thought he had died, a health official said.

UN donors conference for Somalia famine

2011-07-26 09:16:43

Efforts to save starving Somalis from drought were ratcheted up Monday, with UN agencies pitching for $1.6 billion from donor countries.

Fuel scarce in Misrata after rocket hits depot

2011-07-26 09:02:02

Rebel-held Misrata was running short of fuel on Monday as a fire raged at a storage depot hit by a rocket from Libyan government forces.

Bahrain arrests Briton in air security scare

2011-07-26 09:02:18

Bahrain security forces arrested a British man on suspicion of carrying explosives aboard a plane, but a search of the aircraft failed to find any, the interior ministry said on Tuesday.

Children abandoned on 'roads of death'

2011-07-26 08:56:00

Somali mothers are abandoning their children by the roadside as they travel to overwhelmed emergency food centres in drought-hit eastern Africa.

S African man wakes after 21 hrs in morgue fridge

2011-07-26 08:40:03

A South African man awoke to find himself in a morgue fridge - nearly a day after his family thought he had died, a health official said Monday.

Chavez will run for re-election in 2012

2011-07-26 08:18:12

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will seek another six-year term in an election next year despite recent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor, he told a newspaper in an interview published late on Sunday.

Chile miners' ordeal to go to big screen

2011-07-25 17:25:13

Thirty-three Chilean miners who had been trapped underground for 69 days last year have decided to take their story to the big screen.

Syrian cabinet endorses multi-party bill

2011-07-25 16:40:09

The Syrian cabinet endorsed late Sunday the political multi-party bill as part of the government's reform program and in a bid to "enrich the political life, activate it, share responsibilities and alternate the possession of power," Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said Monday.

Israel 'intercepts weapons boat'

2011-07-25 16:37:15

Israeli security forces on Monday intercepted a boat on the Dead Sea carrying two Palestinians trying to smuggle assault rifles, ammunition magazines and other unspecified weapons, the military said.

Syrian refugees in Turkey drop to 8,000

2011-07-25 16:37:15

The number of Syrian refugees who fled the violence in their country and took shelter in Turkey dropped to 8,017 on Monday, an official statement said.