Three-time Soccer World Cup winners Germany are perennial favourites at the tournament, and will come to South Africa with high expectations.
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong finished in the lead group in the Cape Argus cycle tour around the Cape Peninsula on Sunday.
Taliban suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar on Saturday, killing at least 35 people and wounding scores.
Late activist Fatima Meer’s house should be declared a national heritage site, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela said on Saturday.
The US is to blame for strains between Beijing and Washington and should take steps to repair ties, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said on Sunday.
In the online world, the pressure exerted by network effects constantly threatens to produce winner-takes-all outcomes.
Charl Schwartzel was Ernie Els’ house guest last week but it will be strictly business on Sunday as the South African pair go head-to-head.
Jittery foreign visitors, including diplomats, celebrities and businessmen are scrambling to secure personal bodyguards for the Soccer World Cup.
The Stormers crushed New Zealand’s Wellington Hurricanes 37-13 on Saturday to go second in the Super 14 table.
The stone prized by designers is found in one of Zimbabwe’s poorest districts, where residents look with envy on the granite.