28/01/2012 at 00:47:51 - Co-hosts Gabon snatch an incredible late winner to put them through to the quarter-finals and send Morocco out. 28/01/2012 at 00:47:51 - Senegal's Constitutional Court says President Abdoulaye Wade is eligible to stand for a third term in next month's poll, triggering clashes in Dakar. Today at 22:46:04 - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says he will withdraw his troops from Somalia once African Union forces are there in sufficient numbers. Today at 21:17:22 - Issam Jemaa scores in the last minute to earn Tunisia a barely-deserved 2-1 Group C win over Niger, who now exit the Africa Cup of Nations. Today at 19:17:01 - Gunmen in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state kill at least 15 village traders returning from a market at night. Today at 17:46:21 - All the action as it happens from Group C at the Africa Cup of Nations in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. | Today at 21:47:05 - New Zealand's central bank chief says the total cost of the Christchurch earthquakes is set to reach about $24.5bn, much higher than previous estimates. Today at 21:47:05 - Reports say violence in Syria has claimed at least 56 lives, including the first reported deaths in the commercial city of Aleppo. Today at 21:47:05 - The United States is taking "serious and noticeable" measures to prevent another breach of classified files like the massive WikiLeaks document dump, the nation's spy chief says. Today at 21:17:34 - At least one person has died after police opened fire on Tibetan protesters in a restive area of south-western China for the third time this week, say reports. Today at 21:17:33 - A 5.4-magnitude earthquake has shaken northern Italy, the second such tremor this week, but there were no reports of injuries. | |
Today at 21:17:57 - At least 50 protesters opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime stormed the Syrian Embassy building in Cairo on Thursday, smashing windows and tearing down the Syrian flag before dispersin ... Today at 15:16:23 - Two aid workers rescued in a U.S. military raid in Somalia need time out of the media spotlight to decompress and recover, the military said Friday, in outlining key steps in the reintegration process ... Today at 12:46:54 - Sam LaHood, a senior representative of the U.S. International Republican Institute and the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, has been prevented from leaving Egypt, State Department offi ... Today at 12:46:53 - Clashes between rival militias. Allegations of detainee torture. Assaults on the headquarters of the National Transitional Council, which governs Libya. Today at 05:48:09 - Ivory Coast's star-studded team beat Burkina Faso 2-0 Thursday to seal qualification to the quarterfinals of the Africa Cup of Nations. | Today at 18:17:45 - The National Lotteries Board (NLB) said on Friday it was aware that it controlled public money and that it would consider allegations of irregularities made about its administration of funds. Today at 16:17:06 - Three senior executives are leaving Absa, South Africa’s largest retail bank by customer numbers, Maria Ramos, its CEO, announced on Friday. Today at 14:46:03 - All grades of unleaded petrol will increase by 34 cents a litre next Wednesday, February 1, the Department of Energy said on Friday. Today at 13:47:23 - Good governance is about not hesitating to deal with conflict, Judge Mervyn King told a committee of inquiry into Cricket South Africa (CSA) in Pretoria on Friday. Today at 12:46:35 - Former Leicester coach Heyneke Meyer, who built the Bulls team that provided the foundation of the Springbok squad for the past eight years, was named as South Africa’s national rugby coach on Friday. ... | Today at 13:17:55 - The fight against corruption got some heavy artillery yesterday with the launch of Corruption Watch, an independent civil society institute formed to enable South Africans to report and confront corru ... Today at 13:17:54 - South African singer and humanitarian Yvonne Chaka Chaka has received the World Economic Forum's (WEF's) Crystal Award for artists who use their talents to improve the state of the world.
Chaka ... Today at 01:47:36 - Over 100,000 new jobs were created in December 2011, with temporary work growing the fastest, according to the Adcorp Employment Index released on Tuesday. A total of 103,327 new jobs were created in ... Today at 01:47:35 - At the age of eight, Chadne Morkel told her mother: I never want to struggle like you. True to her word, she has just become 2011’s top-achieving Grade 12 at Christel House in Ottery, a school ... Today at 01:47:29 - Having spent two weeks cramped in a vehicle, travelling across terrain that transformed from mountains to desert, through weather that fluctuated from blazing heat to snow, South Africa's Dakar Rally ... |
Today at 13:17:23 - An Israeli military court has ordered the speaker of the Palestinian legislative body to be jailed for six months without trial. Today at 12:19:19 - The US president has launched his first salvo
in an election race marked by financial issues. Today at 11:16:52 - Rushdie damns politicians for giving
in to the ‘false’ leaders of India’s Muslims. Today at 00:15:47 - World needs to create almost 600-million jobs in order to tackle unemployment caused by recession. Today at 00:15:46 - A major challenge faces the new managers
of the addictive must-have of yesteryear. 26/01/2012 at 19:16:18 - Julia Gillard had to be bundled out of a restaurant during medals presentation as Aboriginal rights protesters demonstrated against Australia Day. 26/01/2012 at 14:46:18 - Human Rights Watch have slated French police for allegedly singling out black and Arab men for random checks as part of a new crime fighting policy. | 26/01/2012 at 00:17:10 - As two aid workers freed by a Navy SEAL team flew out of Somalia to be reunited with family, new details emerged about the rescue operation.
26/01/2012 at 00:17:10 - In a daring night-time raid Tuesday, U.S. Navy SEALs rescued two hostages, including one American, from kidnappers in Somalia.
26/01/2012 at 00:17:10 - Lost in the coverage of the Navy SEAL rescue mission in Somalia is the fact that another American was kidnapped there four days ago and is being held for ransom.
25/01/2012 at 00:46:50 - A powerful blast destroyed a police station in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, a senior police official said, the latest in a series of blasts in the country's second biggest city since Islamist i ... 23/01/2012 at 23:15:18 - The aging Muslim spiritual leader of this northern Nigeria city, his eyes heavy with fatigue, leaned into a microphone Monday and whispered to God his wish for peace after the killing of at least 185 ... |
