The NBA’s been on pause since March but will be back in full effect on Thursday. What’s happened since the stoppage and what’s about to happen?
Madikizela-Mandela’s death has triggered a nation-wide expression of grief and a country’s deep introspection of its soul.
​For her neighbours and her comrades, Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was both an adviser and friend
As horrifying as the Orlando massacre was, it was no more terrifying than the reality faced by LGBTI people across the African continent.
US President Barack Obama described the Orlando shooter as a ‘homegrown extremist’, and survivors tell of the June 12 rampage that left 50 dead.
Walt Disney World seems to have worked its magic on a Massachusetts couple who accidentally threw away three platinum and diamond wedding rings. While tidying up their villa as they prepared to leave the park late last week, Paul Campanale dumped a cardboard bowl, not knowing the container inside it held his wife Karen’s rings.
Almost three years after Hurricane Katrina, nearly 40 000 families still are living in vulnerable mobile homes and trailers across the United States Gulf Coast with another hurricane season just two months away, the top US disaster official said on Wednesday.
Google will not use advertising to support its new internet health service, CEO Eric Schmidt said recently in the search company’s first detailed public comments about a venture raising concerns among privacy advocates. Schmidt said the service is merely a platform for American users to store their medical information.
Nasa astronaut Lisa Nowak’s bizarre 1 450km road trip to confront a romantic rival may have been sparked when she uncovered steamy e-mails sent to her boyfriend by the other woman. Nowak had collected more than a dozen e-mails sent to her one-time boyfriend, space shuttle pilot Bill Oefelein, including one he received during his shuttle mission.
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Disguised in a dark wig, glasses and a trench coat, United States space shuttle astronaut Lisa Nowak waited in hiding for a woman she considered a rival for another astronaut’s affections and tried to kidnap her, police in Orlando said on Monday.
Could there be a third president Bush? The current chief said on Wednesday that younger brother Jeb would make a great one, too, and has asked him about making a run. The first president Bush likes the idea as well. Jeb Bush, the Republican governor of Florida, has one asset that his presidential brother does not right now — approval from most of his constituents.
The foul-smelling white substance cakes lamp posts, covers sidewalks and park benches and stains the bushes and trees. Parked cars become spattered in a matter of minutes along ”bird poop alley”. Thousands of cormorants are making a stinking mess around Florida’s Lake Eola, a recreation area in downtown Orlando.
Tiger Woods and Ernie Els have ruled out shorter hitters from any hope of wearing the Masters’ champion green jacket after taking a sneak peek at changes at Augusta National Golf Club. Speaking on the eve of the ,5-million US PGA Bay Hill Invitational, world number one Woods warned that the course might now be the most difficult in golf.
Some teenage soccer players and their parents saw more sights than they wanted when they stayed at a hotel where about 200 swingers were having a New Year’s party. The families said the sexually adventurous partygoers sometimes flashed breasts and bare buttocks in front of the children.
Tiger Woods and Ernie Els once again duelled to a golfing play-off draw in Florida on Tuesday as darkness halted the Tavistock Cup match between crosstown rival golf clubs Lake Nona and host Isleworth. The annual showdown was declared an 8,5-8,5 draw, bringing back memories of 16 months earlier at the 2003 Presidents Cup in South Africa.
Vijay Singh returned to number one in the world on Sunday, but blew a chance to win a tournament for the second straight week. Kenny Perry lost a three-shot lead in three holes, but emerged the winner at the Bay Hill Invitational when Singh hit his approach off the rocks and into the water on the 18th hole to make double bogey.