Moscow- Russia (PANA) -- South African cosmonaut, Mark Shuttleworth is suffering from back ache as a result of the lack of gravity in space, but says he is in good spirits and is enjoying life on board the International Space Station Shuttleworth, who is accompanied by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko and Italian pilot Roberto Vittori, blasted off from Baikonor in Kazakhstan on Thursday and they docked at the International Space Station on Saturday. Full text...

Moscow- Russia (PANA) -- The arrival of South African cosmonaut, Mark Shuttleworth at the International Space Station this weekend has raised some interesting questions, one being how does he go to the bathroom? Shuttleworth, who is accompanied by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko and Italian pilot Roberto Vittori, blasted off from Baikonor in Kazakhstan on Thursday. Full text...

Moscow- Russia (PANA) -- The Russian Soyuz rocket carrying South African cosmonaut Mark Shuttleworth successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday morning --36 hours after blasting off from Baikonor in Kazakhstan. Full text...

Moscow- Russia (PANA) -- South African cosmonaut Mark Shuttleworth says he is savouring every moment of his journey into space and is now preparing for Saturday's docking at the International Space Station. Full text...

Baikonur- Kazakhstan (PANA) -- South African Internet tycoon Mark Shuttleworth, 28, zoomed into space at approximately 08. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma has sent best wishes to Africa's first spaceman, Mark Shuttleworth, now undergoing training in Russia for his space trip on Thursday. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Some 75 South African teachers received diplomas in basic computer skills from Boston City Campus and Business College in Johannesburg, this week. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- For the first time since 1940, all five naked-eye planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn) are visibly grouping themselves in the same part of the evening sky. Full text...

Tunis- Tunisia (PANA) -- Arab countries Wednesday chose Tunisia to host the permanent headquarters of the Arab Internet Alliance. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Better targeting of development aid is widely regarded to be crucial in working towards the attainment of international development targets, including halving the number of people living in extreme poverty by 2015. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Millions of people around Africa will be able to view the flight by South African cosmonaut Mark Shuttleworth into space later this month. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South African Public Service and Administration minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi Wednesday left for Palermo, Sicily, to attend an International Conference on Electronic Government for Development. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Kenya's printing technology is set to benefit from a South African firm, which has ventured into East Africa with its unique science in the field of lithography. Full text...

Geneva- Switzerland (PANA) -- As part of preparations for a regional conference slated 28-30 May in Bamako ahead of the World Summit on Information Technology, President Alpha Oumar Konare of Mali held discussions Thursday with the director general of the UN Office in Geneva, Sergei Ordzhonikidze. Full text...

Kinshasa- DR Congo (PANA) -- Kinshasa university's chemistry department has established a research group on malaria under the supervision of Prof. Full text...

Rabat- Morocco - (PANA) -- An earthquake that measured 4. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- The Board of the National Research Foundation (NRF) has accepted the merger of existing space science activities in South Africa into a coherent and holistic approach for testing in a wider forum. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- A group of African scientists have challenged African governments to allocate enough funds for research and capacity building in plant genetic resources or PGR in the continent. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The African green monkey, commonly found in east Africa, and which scientists say naturally carries the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), could be a key to the development of an anti-AIDS vaccine. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- A forum on journalism, culture and software in Africa would hold 11 February through 7 April in Cotonou, organisers said Wednesday. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- Security threat to companies' information, the grasping of information technology by the world population and the switching of most firms to the information highway to deliver and store valuable data were increasing at the same pace. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Twenty-six African women from 16 English-speaking African countries graduated from the Cisco Internet Networking Academy Friday after 280 hours of training at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) headquarters in Addis Ababa. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Some 950 villages not linked to Sudan's national grid will benefit from a solar energy project to be undertaken by Chinese experts at a cost of 1. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Professor David Glasser of the School of Process and Materials Engineering at South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand, has become the first recipient of the Harry Oppenheimer Award. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The second African Summit of Science and Technology (AFRISTECH) well be held from 19 to 21 March 2002 in Nouakchott, Mauritania, on the topic: "African Development", reports the Senegalese News Agency (APS). Full text...

Lagos- Nigeria (PANA) -- Fifty Nigerians are to undergo a year- long training in Information Technology (IT) in Israel in 2002, under an agreement signed between the two countries recently, the private Guardian newspaper reported Friday. Full text...

Lome- Togo (PANA) -- Some 70 archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, ethnologists and geographers from West Africa reflect for three days in Lome, on how knowledge of the continent's history could help resolve conflicts in Africa. Full text...

Port-Louis- Mauritius (PANA) -- Mauritian information technology and telecommunications minister Pradeep Jeeha Tuesday introduced an information and communication technologies bill in parliament. Full text...

Yaounde- Cameroon (PANA) -- A scientific association -- Out of Gravity -- said it has organised a series of events for 5-9 December in Cameroon to prepare an African for space. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A Regional Public Information seminar on "Serving Human Needs, Nuclear Energy and Technology for Africa" opened in Cape Town, South Africa on Tuesday. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Japan has contributed five million US to a UNDP Trust Fund for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for development aimed at narrowing the digital gap between the North and South, the UN agency announced in a report in Tokyo. Full text...

Philadelphia- US (PANA) -- A South African cotton farmer has tried it and can testify that bio-technology, the modification of living organisms to improve their yield and resistance to adverse factors, can transform a farmer's life. Full text...

Lusaka- Zambia (PANA) -- Zambia is to have a fourth Internet Service Provider that promises customers dial products customised for companies and business people. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- Communications minister Ivy Matsepe Casaburri on Friday officially launched the National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (NEMISA) specialising in broadcasting, new media and multimedia skills. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Cameroonian anthropologist Charly Gabriel Mbock is urging social scientists and policy makers in Africa to foster partnership in order to achieve meaningful results in strategies aimed at eradicating poverty. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- Participants of a panel discussion, held on the margins of the UNESCO general conference, have concurred that the current global economic structure is not conducive to sustainable development. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Ethiopian Science and Technology Commission Friday said technology transfer and research capacity have shown marked improvement in the country, following a bill on patent rights on creative works. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- In a first for South Africa, Telkom has deployed one of the world's most up-to-date records purification systems (RPS) from Spescom. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A new 1. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- A panel of experts has proposed the setting up of five effective observation clusters in Tanzania to monitor earthquakes in the country. Full text...

Johannesburg- South Africa (PANA) -- The CSIR Satellite Applications Centre (SAC) says it has reached an agreement with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, Rosaviakosmos, to sell images obtained from Russian remote sensing systems to the South African market. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Tanzania on Thursday appealed to other African nations to consider applying "correct technology" in solving the continent's problems. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan Col. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) -- A top Ghanaian scientist has criticised fertility clinics that use human embryos for other purposes, saying they (embryos) are living beings and must be treated as such. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- President Olusegun Obasanjo said Thursday that Nigeria is interested in biotechnology as part of efforts to boost food production in the country. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- An African economist has highlighted the contribution of African sailors to modern day navigational scientific knowledge long before Christopher Columbus appeared on the scene to "discover America". Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A five-day meeting on the use nuclear technology in health care, agriculture and industry in Africa was Tuesday into its second day in Pelindaba, west of Pretoria. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- A 13-year-old Cape Town schoolboy has been made an "associate" of Internet giant Amazon. Full text...

Praia- Cape Verde (PANA) -- Cape Verde is setting up a National Youth Information Network (RNIJ) using New Information and Communications Technology (NICT), to connect secondary schools in the country. Full text...

Cape Town- South Africa (PANA) -- South Africa's Gauteng province, recently named in the World Economic Forum's Report as one of the top 64 Innovation Hubs in the World, will be represented at the Internet World Fall exhibition in New York running 30 September to 6 October. Full text...