Tons of highly infectious raw medical waste, including bloody swabs, body parts, filthy bandages, used needles vials and discarded pills, has been unearthed in the back yard of a brick factory in Welkom.
Polling stations in Namibia have closed after two days of voting in elections expected to return Swapo to power despite a tough challenge from a new breakaway party who denounced irregularities.
Swiss police have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at hooded protesters who broke windows and set cars alight during a demonstration ahead of a major WTO conference in Geneva.
Stoning the devil and circling the Mecca Grand Mosque's kaaba shrine, two million pilgrims have launched into the final rituals of the hajj ahead of their massive exodus from Islam's holiest city.
Security experts have started preparing Roman Polanski's Alpine chalet for the movie director's house arrest while authorities consider whether to extradite him to the US.
A News24 User who was at the scene of Thursday's bus accident in Pretoria which claimed the lives of ten people shares his experiences from Moloto Road.
