WTA medical staff were on Wednesday set to carry out more medical tests on the mystery injury that forced world number one Venus Williams to pull out of the 1,244-million-dollar Tennis Masters Series event at short notice. The American, seeded one here, told WTA officials just half an hour before her match with Russia’s Anna […]

As the Lagos-bound Boeing 727 drops through the thick cloud covering Nigeria’s swampy coastal lowlands, a nervous passenger crosses himself and says a brief prayer. The concerned business traveller is just hoping the flight touches down safely, but he might also find room in his prayers for Nigeria’s beleaguered private aviation sector. On May 4 […]

Eight SA National Tuberculosis Association (Santa) hospitals in the Eastern Cape have run out of money and will begin discharging some of their 1 600 TB patients.

There were no major shocks in the Bafana Bafana squad named on Tuesday for the World Cup finals in Japan and South Korea… apart from the manner in which it was announced, that is.

South Africa would certainly reap economic and other rewards from the United States as a result of its sound governance, says the US ambassador to South Africa.

A US television company has broadcast a video tape showing scenes directly preceding the execution of Daniel Pearl, the American journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan earlier this year. The tape, shown by CBS News late on Tuesday, begins with Pearl giving his captors a brief description of his roots. ”My father’s Jewish. […]

An Egyptian being tried for spying for Israel claimed on Monday he had information on the bombings of two airliners, including one which killed more than 250 people over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988, a court source said. Magdi Anwar Mohammed Tawfiq, a 52-year-old unemployed man, told the High State Security Court in […]