adminSouthampton duo ‘not for sale’
Southampton midfielder Morgan Schneiderlin and striker Jay Rodriguez will not be sold this summer, according to chairman Ralph Krueger.
EU gives extra $2m to fight Ebola crisis
Brussels — The European Union yesterday allocated an extra €2m to fight the Ebola outbreak spiralling out of control in West Africa, bringing total EU funding to €3.9m.
India jails school staff over 94 fire deaths
An Indian court has convicted 10 people over a 2004 fire that killed 94 children in a thatch-roofed school. The owner of the primary school was sentenced to life in…
Israeli fire kills refugees in Gaza UN school
Israeli shells have struck a UN school in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 19 people and wounding scores more, after Israeli ground troops made a significant push into the…
Woman strips naked at Mandela statue
Johannesburg — A woman caused a commotion when she stripped naked and caressed the statue of former president Nelson Mandela in Sandton, The Star reported yesterday.
At least 33 dead in Guinea concert stampede
A stampede at a rap concert on a beach has killed at least 33 people, including 11 children, in the Guinean capital Conakry, hospital officials said.
5 things to know about Ebola outbreak in West Africa
Dakar— There has been panic and fear about the deadly Ebola disease spreading ever since Nigerian health officials reported on Friday that a Liberian man sick with the disease had…
British Airways to be sued over pilot sex abuse
London — Girls and young women who allege they were sexually abused by a British Airways (BA) pilot in African schools and orphanages plan to sue the airline, a law…
Suicide bombers attack 2 mosques in Nigeria
Kano — Suicide bombers attacked two mosques in northeast Nigeria’s Yobe state late on Tuesday, killing at least six people and injuring several others, witnesses said.
Libya ex-deputy PM kidnapped in Tripoli
Tripoli — An armed group abducted a former Libyan deputy prime minister and newly-elected MP, Mustapha Abu Shagur, in the capital Tripoli on Tuesday, his nephew said.