adminDouble boost for Sharks
Johannesburg – The Cell C Sharks have been fatigued and tired over the past few weeks but the start of a new phase of competition is coinciding with the additional…
Winning my only goal: Woods
Tiger Woods insists winning is his only goal at this week’s Open Championship despite another injury-hit season. Woods, who won the last of his three Opens at Royal Liverpool in…
Asia gets 18th Super Rugby team
Cape Town – The evolution of Super Rugby is set to expand into Asia with SANZAR confirming that tenders from Japan and Singapore will vie for the licence to run…
Pro-Palestine march call for end to violence
Cape Town — Thousands of chanting pro-Palestine demonstrators streamed up Plein Street in Cape Town shortly after noon yesterday and gathered outside Parliament’s main gates.
UN says ending Aids is possible by 2030
The UN says new HIV infections and deaths from Aids are decreasing, making it possible to control the epidemic by 2030 and eventually end it “in every region, in every…
Kenya seizes mega heroin haul
Mombasa — Kenyan police on Tuesday seized 341.7kg of heroin hidden in the diesel tank of a ship, the biggest ever single seizure of drugs at the Indian Ocean port…
Dutch held liable for some Srebrenica deaths
A court has cleared the Netherlands of liability in the deaths of most of the 8,000 Bosnian Muslims slain in the Srebrenica massacre, but says it has to compensate the…
Several dead in subway derailment
A subway train in Moscow has derailed between two stations, killing at least 21 people and injuring more than 130, according to multiple news reports from the Russian capital.
Rebels repel Iraqi attempt to retake Tikrit
Iraqi forces have withdrawn from the rebel-held northern Iraqi city of Tikrit after a new push to retake the city met heavy resistance, soldiers involved in the operation said.
Sata ‘not critically ill’
Lusaka — Zambia released photographs of President Michael Sata chairing a cabinet meeting this week, allaying speculation that the 77-year-old leader was critically ill.