South Africans prayed today for the health of former president Nelson Mandela and anxiously awaited further word about the anti-apartheid leader after he was admitted to a military hospital.

A Caribbean Airlines jet coming from New York has crashed and broken in two while landing in Guyana with 163 people aboard, causing several injuries but no deaths.

Former British millionaire Krishna Maharaj once lived the high life, but now spends his days swatting flies from his face and talking about the “grave injustice” that landed him behind bars in the US more than 20 years ago.