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Hawks head Berning Ntlemeza was found wanting as he fumbled his responses to members of Scopa at Parliament yesterday.

In a bizarre consequence of Eid al-Adha celebrations in Bangladesh, animal sacrifices have combined with heavy rains to leave the streets awash with blood. Shocking photos emerged from the capital Dhaka Wednesday that showed residents wading through streets flooded with a mix of animal blood and rainwater. Also known as the Feast of Sacrifice, Eid […]

The most significant point about the 4th Industrial Revolution is the rapid pace of its progress, writes Magda Wierzycka.

The pessimists on Africa may be out in force, but there are strong grounds for renewed optimism, say Georges Desvaux and Acha Leke.

Barloworld Equipment South Africa has acquired a stake in entrepreneurial technology company Optron Group.

Attacq plans to invest about R1 billion in new developments at Waterfall in Midrand, says chief executive Morne Wilken.

Newly-appointed Alexander Forbes chief executive Andrew Darfoor unveils a new group structure.

Aspen Pharmacare reported a 12% increase in comparable revenue to R35.4 billion for the year to end June.

Hemp and marijuana are like Lisa and Bart Simpson, writes Pierre Heistein.

A former Philippine militiaman testified before a Senate panel on Thursday that President Rodrigo Duterte, when he was mayor of a southern city, ordered him and other members of a liquidation squad to kill criminals and political opponents in gangland-style assaults that left about 1,000 dead. 

The Indian rupee fell below 67 to the dollar on Thursday after a television channel reported that the commerce ministry will propose a devaluation in the unit to the government to promote dwindling exports.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and Russia agreed that the Syrian cessation of hostilities that began on Monday had largely held and should be extended for another 48 hours despite sporadic violence, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday.

The cessation of hostilities, brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday, went into effect on Monday night.

State Department spokesman Mark Toner said... Читать дальше...

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Amazon has announced that its popular voice assistant for its Echo speaker now has over 3,000 skills.

Here are a few of the new capabilities that have recently been released:

• Twitter was added as a skill this past weekend. Users can now ask Alexa to read them tweets from their timeline or all tweets on a trending topic.
• Find My Phone... Читать дальше...

All Blacks coach Steve Hansen says he’s expecting nothing less than a Springbok team that will want to “rip the heads off” of his players.

Some readers have problems and need your help to get out of trouble. However, this lady brings us inspiration by her life story. Why has she become the egg donor? Read and rejoice with her! “When I did my first egg donation, I was in my early twenties and my best friends had just found […]

Critics say the woman who emerged from Chelsea Clinton’s apartment was a lookalike and not the real Hillary Clinton.

Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama plans to designate on Thursday an undersea range of canyons and peaks off the US Eastern seaboard as the country's first Atlantic marine national monument. The move, in the works for more than a year, will further Obama's conservation efforts in the final months of his presidency, an initiative he views as a major component of his environmental legacy. The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, situated 130 miles southeast of Cape Cod on the southern edge of George's Bank... Читать дальше...

For the second straight week, the Lower Columbia-area received only one ranked football team in the Associated Press football poll, which comes out every Wednesday through the regular season.

China aims to shut almost half a million industrial small-scale coal boilers by 2018, but this won't boost LNG .

There are many people in the society going through tough times; the fact that you have the basic things of life should not make you forget the struggles of others.  Irrespective of the religion you practice, you have to understand that this world is not your home. While we are being born into this world, we […]

Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav said on Thursday that Uttar Pradesh CM Ahilkesh Yadav was not consulted by the central leadership before removing him as the state chief of the party, which hurt his image.

BEIJING (AP) — Tesla faces new scrutiny in China about its vehicle autopilot system after state television broadcast allegations that a man killed in a fatal crash had activated the driver-assist feature of his car. The nationally broadcast report was a potential setback for Palo Alto, California-based Tesla's efforts to expand in China, the world's largest auto market. Tesla has explored building a manufacturing plant in China, but under national regulations that would require it to partner with a domestic company.

Het herstel van de Amerikaanse economie maakt een einde aan haperende inkomens en stijgende armoede. ,,We hebben ons teruggevochten van de ergste recessie in tachtig jaar'', speechte Obama.