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'Jub Jub, co-accused were racing'
This followed an accident while the two were driving their Mini Coopers down a road in Soweto while school children were walking home from school. State witness Nono Mabote told the court that she was walking along Mdlalose Street towards Protea North
Updated: 03/17/2011 09:32A
China Eastern gets ECA financing
ECA finance has long been difficult for Chinese airlines to obtain, since export credit agencies could not analyze the bankruptcy risk of Chinese credits. Instead, airlines in China needed a second guarantee from a Chinese state bank.
Updated: 03/17/2011 09:32A
Commentary: We must pay attention to the growth of hate groups in America
Nativist extremists go beyond advocating restrictive immigration policy and actually confront or harass suspected immigrants or their employers. Groups comprising such individuals barely showed any rise last year. Patriot groups consist of
Updated: 03/17/2011 09:32A
Two arrested on DUI charges
Neither driver was immediately identified, but the driver that police said caused the in initial crash, involving three vehicles, struck one of the vehicles head-on. The pre-dawn collision occurred two days after another wrong-way driver that Police
Updated: 03/17/2011 09:32A
Commentary: Obama had no other option on Guantanamo
The current House speaker said he favored trying alleged terrorists in military courts. Ghailani was the first Guantanamo detainee to stand trial in civilian court, and as soon as that decision was made, he was afforded a full complement of
Updated: 03/17/2011 09:32A
Japan's Nuclear Power Industry Has History Of Scandals
Two workers later died in what was the deadliest accident in the Japanese industry's history. _ At least 37 workers were exposed to low doses of radiation at a 1997 fire and explosion at a nuclear reprocessing plant operated in Tokaimura, northeast of
Updated: 03/17/2011 09:32A
Killer's parole disgusts family
Chief Justice William Cox described the killing as a "cruel, brutal and deliberate murder of a completely innocent old man". In sentencing him in October 2001 Justice Cox said Jones had shown no remorse. The detection of Jones was unique in the world
Updated: 03/17/2011 09:32A
HC denies green signal for Nirma's Mahuva cement plant
However, a division bench of chief justice SJ Mukhopadhaya and justice Anant S Dave refused to stay the MoEF notice, and fixed 7 April as the next date for hearing. The court said that it did not feel that granting a stay was necessary at this stage.
Updated: 03/17/2011 09:32A
PrivilegeWatch 2011 (Day Two) - Liveblogging Procedure and House Affairs
The first item of business on the agenda: a return appearance by two of the three ministers at the centre of the administrative dispute over a parliamentary order to produce reams of financial data: Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and Public Safety
Updated: 03/17/2011 09:32A
Japan earthquake: The World owes it to the Fukushima 50 fighting to stave off
They are the "Fukushima 50", the handful of people who are all that now stands between Japan and the world's second-worst nuclear accident. In a country already brimming with stoic courage, this skeleton crew is surely the bravest of the lot.
Updated: 03/17/2011 09:31A