Foreign

Tyson faces fresh sex charge
SAN BERNADINO, California -- Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson faced fresh accusations of sexual harassment yesterday, media reports said. Police here were investigating an allegation by a woman that the 35-year-old had molested...

Israeli police storm holy site in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM -- Israeli riot police stormed one of the world's holiest sites here yesterday after Palestinians rained stones down on Jewish worshippers following a provocative rally by extremist Jews. A feared bloody showdown was avoided, but 18 Pal...

More opposition members arrested as Zim goes to polls
HARARE, Zimbabwe-- Police freed the opposition candidate and 16 of his supporters yesterday after arresting them on the second day of voting in a crucial parliamentary by-election north of the city, the opposition party said. Police accused Ellio...

Mugabe pays out more to war veterans
HARARE -- Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has granted a 25 percent pay increase to guerrilla war veterans. According to regulations passed last week the 55000 veterans would now receive a monthly pension of about R590 (from about R120) indepen...

Ralf Schumacher wins German Grand Prix
HOCKENHEIM -- Ralf Schumacher took his Williams-BMW to a dramatic and thrilling German Grand Prix triumph here yesterday on a day which was one to forget for the world title contenders. World championship leader Michael Schumacher never made it t...

F&M fraud in UK suspected
LONDON -- The head of a rural affairs agency that advises the British government called yesterday for light to be shed on new accusations of fraud against some farmers whose livestock have foot-and-mouth disease. The newspaper The Independent yes...

Big drug bust in Iran
TEHRAN, Iran -- Police have arrested more than 22000 traffickers and addicts and seized 8,5 tons of drugs in a four-week operation, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported yesterday. The anti-narcotics police said in a statement their ...

Language issue slows Macedonia peace talks
OHRID, Macedonia -- Ethnic Albanian demands that Albanian become an official second language in Macedonia appear to have deadlocked peace talks being held over the weekend in this lakeside resort town. Sources close to the Macedonian Slav parties...

Japan's coalition wins poll
TOKYO -- Japan's ruling coalition swept to victory in elections for the upper house of Parliament yesterday, and the country's popular prime minister vowed to use the vote of confidence to push ahead with difficult economic reforms. The three-par...

Fearful symmetry
Como, a two-year-old rare Siberian white tiger, was put down in Racine, Minnesota, shortly after this picture was taken despite appeals for his life to be spared. Como escaped from his cage a week ago and bit a child. Blood from the tiger has ...