Nasa has officially called it quits for the Mars landing craft Phoenix, two years after the stationary probe touched down.

Mamelodi Sundowns are in the dark and do not know what to expect when they meet Phoenix at the Sir Gaetan Duval Stadium in Mauritius on Sunday.

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Nasa scientists on Thursday night confirmed that there is water on Mars. The space agency's Phoenix lander has identified ice in a soil sample.

The New York Giants didn't blink. They stared down Tom Brady and the New England Patriots on Sunday and came away with one of the greatest upsets in Super Bowl history. It was the biggest Super Bowl upset since Joe Namath's upstart New York Jets upended the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl 3.

A pathologist hired by the family of a South African-born woman who died in police custody at the Phoenix airport said she accidentally strangled herself -- but he also blamed police for her death. Dr Cyril Wecht said officers roughed up the 45-year-old mother, who was flying from New York to an alcohol treatment centre.

A private pathologist hired by the family of a South African-born woman who died in police custody at Phoenix airport in the United States said she accidentally strangled herself -- but he also blamed police for her death. He agreed with a medical examiner's report that the intoxicated woman accidentally strangled herself on her shackles.

Two men who sent millions of unsolicited pornographic emails have been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison as part of the first prosecution under a federal anti-spam law, United States Department of Justice officials said. Prosecutors said that the two men started their spamming business four years ago.

Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson is scheduled for a hearing this month in which he could change his plea in a narcotics case. The 41-year-old boxer previously pleaded not guilty to charges of drug possession and driving under the influence of drugs. A spokesperson for Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas wouldn't comment on any possible plea agreement.

Two news helicopters covering a police chase in Phoenix, Arizona, on live television collided and crashed to the ground on Friday, killing all four people on board in a plunge that viewers saw as a jumble of spinning, broken images. Both helicopters went down in a park in central Phoenix and caught fire.