The clock is ticking for Mali as it scrambles to organise key elections in less than 40 days following a ceasefire deal between the government and separatist Tuareg rebels.
A top spy cop served only two weeks of a 10-year sentence for armed robbery, has spent 15 years evading arrest and secured employment in a specialised crime intelligence unit despite his criminal record.
The clock is ticking for Mali as it scrambles to organise key elections in less than 40 days following a ceasefire deal between the government and separatist Tuareg rebels.
Monsoon flooding that has stranded thousands of people and caused landslides in northern India has killed almost 120 people, and the prime minister said the toll could rise substantially.
President Jacob Zuma yesterday defended his controversial friendship with the Gupta family, telling the National Assembly that he had every right to be friendly with the powerful business family.
Jenson Button could not wait to get out of his mishandling McLaren after a miserable afternoon in Canada and now, less than two weeks later, he is impatient to step back in.
Exxaro Resources CEO Sipho Nkosi says the government has to lay down clearer laws, and mining companies and labour both have to abide by these laws
Fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana were handed a 20-month suspended prison sentence and a heavy fine on Wednesday for hiding hundreds of millions of euros from the Italian tax authorities.
Duchess Catherine is planning to give birth naturally at the private Lindo Wing of St. Mary's hospital in London, where Prince William was born, and wants the sex to be a surprise.
Veteran rockers The Rolling Stones will be playing for over two hours at this year's Glastonbury festival it has been revealed.
Sunday Times is giving twenty lucky readers plus their partners the chance to attend the 'reincarnated' star studded 'Kings Of Chaos' concert happening at Sun City and at the Grand West in Cape Town.
Last May, Facebook announced an initiative allowing users to post their organ donor status on their Facebook Timelines and, if they are not already donors, to easily link to official registries and instantly enroll.
Knysna resident Andre van Zijl hopes to raise awareness of HIV/Aids by sitting in a jacuzzi at Fourways Mall in Johannesburg for a record 300 hours.
Top Italian chefs are clamouring for the resignation of a junior minister who dismissed the country’s cuisine as a poor copy of trendy French cooking, poking a sore spot in a long-held kitchen rivalry between the two nations.
A tiny Samoan airline says it will introduce an “XL” class for super-sized passengers, featuring extra-wide rows and special ramps to help them reach their seats.
Maybe the only positive spin-off from the country's shockingly high unemployment rate - and it will be cold comfort to the many people hanging about on street corners looking for work - is that the entrepreneurial route is often the only alternative.
The head of the US National Security Agency said covert surveillance had helped disrupt plans for more than 50 terrorist attacks since the September 11 2001 destruction of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Centre.
The Times Editorial: Waking on Friday morning, June 20 1913, the South African native found himself not actually a slave but a pariah in the land of his birth, Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, a highly respected intellectual and influential political leader of the time,...
If there's one thing the rainbow nation does particularly well, it is engaging in a spot of pessimism.
The Times Editorial: Waking on Friday morning, June 20 1913, the South African native found himself not actually a slave but a pariah in the land of his birth, Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje, a highly respected intellectual and influential political leader of the time,...
Nigella Lawson, beautiful, clever and rich, is not the sort of woman we expect to be hit by her husband. And yet, here we are, gawking at photographs that apparently show Charles Saatchi with his hands around the heroine's throat - and her obvious, chilling terror.
As much as the country has changed, so, too, has it remained the same.
Writer Fred Khumalo's column is a heady mix of everything about nothing. He deals with serious topics in a humorous way. Holy cows are slaughtered, stereotypes are taken, thrown in the air, looked at from all possible angles and then sliced with the sword of reason.
