Updated: 8am GMT -- 2005/04/27
Foreign
Iraqi PM completes draft cabinet list
BAGHDAD, Iraq — After months of haggling over the make-up of a new cabinet, Prime Minister-designate Ibrahim al-Jaafari has completed a draft list of ministers which he is submitting to the president, a spokesman said yesterday. Under the proposal,...
Italian PM to reveal new plan
ROME — Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was set to unveil his revamped government programme to parliament yesterday, hoping to keep tensions between his centre-right coalition allies at bay after his deputy triggered a storm of criticism. ...
Kiwi in bid for solo Arctic yacht record
WELLINGTON — A 58- year-old New Zealander sailed yesterday on a bid to become the first solo yachtsman to sail non-stop around the world through the frozen waters of the Arctic’s Northwest passage, which thaw for only two months a year. Graeme...
No MDC ties with SA – envoy
CAPE TOWN — Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change cannot sever its relationship with the South African government, as there is no relationship to sever, according to Harare’s ambassador to Pretoria, Simon Moyo. A statement in Busines...
Nuke developer Morrison dies
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — Philip Morrison, one of the inventors of the atomic bomb and an early leader in the search for intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, has died. He was 89. Morrison, a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institut...
Pitt, Jolie seen playing on beach
NEW YORK — It’s true – again? Despite denials of a romance between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, new photographs show the couple on a beach in Africa, according to published reports. The reports said the photos show Pitt, Jolie and her three-y...
Japanese question rail safety
AMAGASAKI — Rescuers yesterday pulled three survivors and more bodies from the wreckage of a Japanese train as the death toll rose to 76, with a new derailment raising fresh safety concerns after recent rail privatisation. With hundreds of reside...
Zimbabweans reel as basics, services dry up
HARARE — Zimbabweans are reeling under a serious shortage of basic commodities, compounded by erratic power supplies following the March 31 parliamentary elections, and experts partially blame this on dwindling foreign exchange reserves and a poor ...
WORLD BRIEFS peace talks claim 72 lives financial crisis of machinery
Australia to cull wild camels SYDNEY — Thousands of wild camels in Australia’s Outback will be shot from helicopters in an attempt to control their burgeoning numbers, a state official and local media said yesterday. Camels were first introduce...
