AUSTRALIA’s left-handed wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist went to the top of the world batting rankings announced on Monday.

SKIPPER Daniel Herbert says the Queensland Reds want to create their own history at rugby’s ‘House of Pain’ against the Otago Highlanders on Saturday.

AFTER spending the night in police custody, a senior Sowetan newspaper journalist, who was originally held in connection with attempted rape, was on Monday granted bail of R2 000 by the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on a reduced charge of indecent assault.

THE State had failed to put the interests of children first, the Constitutional Court heard on Monday. Counsel for Cotlands Baby Sanctuary argued it was completely unreasonable for the state to exclude certain people from its antiretroviral programmes.

ONE of three men accused of abusing baby elephants from the Tuli block in Botswana was Monday acquitted on four charges of contravening the Animal Protection Act.

CHARLES NQAKULA, the national chairman of the South African Communist Party and former deputy minister of home affairs, has been appointed the country’s new minister of safety and security.

PALESTINIAN leaders have agreed to exile 13 militants holed up in the Church of the Nativity, a Palestinian official said early on Tuesday, but approval of each of the 13 was needed. Two Palestinian officials entered the church to talk to the gunmen inside, the official, a Palestinian policeman in the church, told The Associated […]

WORLD leaders reacted with relief on Monday after French President Jacques Chirac trounced extreme right-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen in an election that had cast a cloud over France’s image on the world stage. With almost one voice, governments in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia lauded the result as a resounding defeat for […]

A HUGE smile across his face, Mark Shuttleworth landed safely in Kazakhstan early on Sunday and said his space voyage was ”the best thing I’ve ever done.”