Jerry Carino of Asbury Park Press On Sept. 11, 2001, Mark Desire was working on a Brooklyn murder case when the planes crashed into the World Trade Center’s twin towers. He was 33 years old and four years into his tenure with New York City’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner. Within minutes, he was on the […]
Dogs who helped rescue people from the collapsed Twin Towers at Ground Zero or sniffed out the injured and the dead received huge publicity and universal praise. One Minnesota couple even sent “dog boots” to help protect the heroic canines from the sharp rubble. But there was another, less-publicised drama going on: to rescue pets […]
His official date of death is December 5 2013, but on a wintry night six months earlier Nelson Mandela stopped breathing. Shortly after midnight on June 8 that year, Madiba, 94 and in frail health, was gently turned onto his left side in his bed in his Houghton home. He stopped breathing and had a “terminal event”. […]
An extraordinary interview was filmed with Aicha El Wafi at her home and in a park in Narbonne, France, before her son Zacarias Moussaoui was jailed for life. It’s still relevant today – full not only of her personal pain, but also of insights into very mixed-up minds.
The Taliban could not have sustained its campaign or secured victory in Afghanistan without the active support of Pakistan, a former Commander of the British Army in Afghanistan claimed. Colonel Richard Kemp also raised concerns over jihadist elements getting control of nuclear material in Pakistan to add to its arsenal of weaponry. . Addressing an online […]
Among the ‘assurances’ provided by the Taleban’s statement in its first press conference since it was toppled from power in 2001, was that girls’ education would be allowed.
Al Qaeda, now potentially resurgent after the stark collapse of Western support to the defence of Afghanistan, is unlikely to resort to new mass terror attacks on the West, according to a senior source who has worked closely with Al Qaeda for decades. A former senior jihad fighter claimed yesterday that Al Qaeda loyalists made […]
http://www.heritagecollection.co.za/article/items/the-shadowboxer-nelson-mandela-monument.html Boxing with champion Jerry Moloi, the star boxer of the D.O.C.C. club. Source: Baileys African History’s Archives Zindzi Mandela tries out boxing gloves donated to her father Nelson and signed by world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. Below: Boxing with champion Jerry Moloi, the star boxer of the D.O.C.C. club. Source: Baileys African History’s Archives By […]