An estimated 43 000 minke whales are believed to live in Icelandic waters, eating two-million tons of fish and shrimps every year. So what does it matter if 38 whales are killed?
Scientists in the US have bad news for those seeking evidence of life on Mars: there may never have been any oceans on the red planet.
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa presented a mixed bag in noon trade on Friday, although the market’s main focus was on the slightly weaker rand.
This week’s cricket confrontation at Headingley will evoke more tumultuous emotions among our South African boys as it was here, in 1998, that a certain Pakistani umpire got his finger up our noses, causing South Africa to lose the deciding Test and the series in nefarious fashion.
The blackout in New York and Ohio last week came as a timely reminder about the dangers of not pressing “save” on one’s PC every now and again. But electricity is the lifeblood of American sports.
In all media reports on last weekend’s coronation of King Leruo Molotlegi of the Bafokeng, the description "tribe" was thrown about with abandon. Black journalists, who should at least know better, also used this degrading term.
Labelled "explosive" by Microsoft boss Bill Gates, wireless networking arrived in South Africa this week, with Telkom and M-Web announcing plans to pilot wireless public areas or "hotspots".
Associates of Liberia’s ex-president, Charles Taylor, are selling off that country’s stately ambassadorial residence in Pretoria — but there are questions about whether the revenue will reach Liberian government coffers.
A land grab near Vryheid in northern KwaZulu-Natal went horribly wrong last week when the Pietermaritzburg High Court restrained Jabulani Mdlalose, a pretender to the chieftancy of the Othaka Tribal Authority, from encouraging a land invasion.
South African athletes have a good chance of achieving their best medal haul at the World Championships in Paris. Who are these athletes who could make our wildest dreams come true?