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A man suspected of drink-driving has been charged after Nelson Mandela’s great-granddaughter was killed in a car crash in South Africa. Zenani Mandela died on her way home from a World Cup concert in Soweto […] […]

THE US Coast Guard has expressed concern that BP’s current plans to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill do not go far enough and has ordered it to improve them within 48 hours. US […] […]

TWO men were killed and five others hospitalised in serious condition, following a two-vehicle collision on Old Hope Road, St Andrew, shortly after noon yesterday. The dead men have been identified as Vincent Reid and […] […]

Seven months after agreeing to a $2.4 million settlement in his wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Menlo Park, the husband of a woman killed while riding her bicycle on Sand Hill Road is […] […]

FLASH floods have swept away entire campsites in a forest in the southern US state of Arkansas, drowning at least 16 people as they slept and leaving dozens more missing. Survivors described a torrent of […] […]

EL PASO, Texas—The FBI has opened a civil rights probe against a Border Patrol agent who shot and killed a 15-year-old Mexican boy at the boundary with Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a U.S. official told The […] […]

RUSTENBURG, SOUTH AFRICA—Forget getting past England. The U.S. team had to get past the elephants first. The Americans were delayed twice Friday when elephants blocked the road, the second back-up coming as the squad was […] […]

DANCEHALL artiste Ninja Man, his son and two other men who are jointly charged for murder, were remanded in custody when the appeared in the Supreme Court today. Attorneys representing Ninja Man, whose real name […] […]

VANDALS have daubed Nazi graffiti on British war graves in northern France, prompting a strong condemnation from President Nicolas Sarkozy in a letter to Queen Elizabeth II. Police said they found swastikas and other graffiti […] […]

CAIRO—Egypt is taking its first serious stab at clamping down on smoking with a campaign launched Thursday to enforce a ban in the scenic seaside city of Alexandria, no small feat in a nation where […] […]