Italy’s top court said on Tuesday it had ordered a retrial of American Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher because their acquittals contained “shortcomings, contradictions and inconsistencies.”
A warning issued to tourists by the United States says Pretoria, Johannesburg, Durban, and Cape Town are "critical crime threat spots", The New Age reported on Wednesday.
The Mali government and Tuareg rebels signed a ceasefire accord Tuesday paving the way for presidential elections in the troubled west African state next month.
Italy’s top court said on Tuesday it had ordered a retrial of American Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend in the murder of British student Meredith Kercher because their acquittals contained “shortcomings, contradictions and inconsistencies.”
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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.
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.
Veteran British rock bands Motörhead and Black Sabbath were crowned the kings of heavy metal on Monday, winning the top accolades at the UK’s top metal music awards, the Metal Hammer Golden Gods.
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.
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.
There was no "back door pipeline" to BlackBerry South Africa's platform, the company said on Tuesday following reports that the United Kingdom government had been monitoring e-mails and phone calls.
The Times Editorial: Freedom of speech, which is protected in our law books, seems to have been disrespected in our parliament. In recent days, we have witnessed parliamentarians abusing this right and turning parliament into a beer hall.
Andre Burgener has been immersed in all things food since she took over the making of the family's lunch box sandwiches aged eight (her mom could make a mean creme brulee and a staggering souffle, but could never butter the bread all the way to the edges.
The Times Editorial: Freedom of speech, which is protected in our law books, seems to have been disrespected in our parliament. In recent days, we have witnessed parliamentarians abusing this right and turning parliament into a beer hall.
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.
The continuing e-toll dispute and the vast waste of time, energy and money to fight a government decision that should never have been made are sure signs that we have in the ANC administration a government that does not care about us.
TOP OCTOBER PICKS: Sunday Times Lifestyle/Green Life Photographer of the Year
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TOP SHOT: THE LOVELY BONES – The Green Life Photographer of the Month is Allen D Walker, who wins R5000 in cash from the Sunday Times for this surrealistic capture of a kudu skull in the Okavango Delta. Allen is now also in the running for the grand title — the Green Life Photographer of the Year, to be announced in December. Congratulations! Image by: Allen D Walker
HIGHLY COMMENDED: WELL-SPOTTED – “I arrived at a traffic jam in Kruger to be told I had just missed a leopard in a tree,” says Massimo Da Silva, the photographer. “I scanned the bush but left after ten minutes – only to look in the rearview mirror and see this beautiful creature. She had spotted me first.” Image by: Massimo Da Silva
HIGHLY COMMENDED: FEAST FIGHT – Spotted hyenas and vultures in Limpopo’s Thornybush Game Reserve battled for several days over the carcass of one hippo, killed by another. Image by: Tom Coetzee
HIGHLY COMMENDED: IN A FLAP – A lesser masked weaver in the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Gardens, Johannesburg. Image by: Ernest Porter.
READERS’ CHOICE: Here’s looking at you – An inquisitive grey crowned crane, Treehaven Waterfowl Trust, near Vereeniging. By Fiona Fourie. Vote for your favourite image by visiting www.facebook.com/stgreenlife and “liking” your top shots. The most popular images will be considered for the grand prizes at the end of the year. Image by: Fiona Fourie
HOGGING THE HOG – A warthog carries the load of her sleeping piglets near Ngala Safari Lodge, Kruger National Park.
Image by: Andrew Nicholson
GLITZY VISITOR – This African bush grasshopper landed in Gavin Fordham’s Empangeni garden and rewarded him with an opportunity to capture its dazzling beauty. Image by: Gavin Fordham
WOMEN ON THE RUN – “The sound of two rhino moving swiftly across the marsh is magnificent to hear,” says Laura Dyer, who took this photograph in Phinda Private Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal. “These two white rhino females were being chased by a male rhino, so I used a slow shutter speed to give a sense of their movement.”
Image by: Laura Dyer
HOLD ON HONEY, WE’RE GOING DIVING – Barry Skinstad recalls how he took this shot off Southern Mozambique: “I was on my way to a dive site when we spotted a strange object in the water. Then we realised it was a pair of endangered loggerhead turtles mating. I quietly slipped off the boat and for about 20 seconds the turtles allowed me close enough to capture this image.” Image by: Barry Skinstad
FLAMBOYANT FLOCK – Flamingoes take off over the Kabeljous River, Jeffreys Bay. Image by: Jean Goldstone
KISS OF TRUTH – Photographer Kent Andreasen says a young female leopard near Singita Lebombo Lodge next to Kruger toyed with this impala fawn for an hour, before finally ending its life.
NEST CAFÉ – Week-old Cape robin chat chicks with a typically voracious appetite.
Image by: Peet J van Eeden, Welgemoed
FALLEN BEAUTY – A droplet-sprinkled orchid in the butterfly garden at Ludwig’s Rose Farm, Haakdoornlaagte, Pretoria. “This an excellent example that beauty never dies,” says the photographer, Reinhard Nell. Image by: Reinhard Nell.
TRIP THE LIGHT FANTASTIC – “This shot was taken in the early morning. I was travelling in a traditional dhow boat,” says photographer Dale Morris. “Everything was still. I saw these crab plovers flying towards me. I grabbed my camera, and got lucky. The birds were flying near the Mozambique ocean in this wonderful lined formation.” Image by: Dale Morris
HELLO, HONEY – A citrus swallowtail near Brits Airfield, Image by: Willie Bodenstein
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