The simmering and sometimes acrimonious dispute between Premier Soccer League champions Mamelodi Sundowns and Jose Torrealba took a positive and dramatic turn on Saturday when Fifa declared the Venezuelan international striker a Sundowns player.
Defending as though their lives depended on it during the final 40 minutes, a 10-man Jomo Cosmos secured a valuable 1-1 Premier Soccer League draw against Kaizer Chiefs at King’s Park Rugby Stadium on Saturday through a combination of true grit and their opponents’ aimless attempts to use their numerical advantage.
Sameehg Doutie, the 18-year-old winger sensation, was the hero of Ajax Cape Town’s 1-0 victory over Black Leopards in the Castle Premiership game at Cape Town’s Athlone Stadium on Saturday evening. There was drama late in the second half when the referee red-carded an Ajax substitute striker and a Leopards defender.
In a Hollywood with a reputation for liking things safe and bankable, a bizarrely cast film about the life of one of the most controversial singers of all time, opening in just four cinemas in all of the United States, would seem unlikely to be at the centre of the biggest Oscar buzz of the year. Yet a new biopic about Bob Dylan is doing exactly that.
China is planning to tighten punishments for sex-selective abortions amid concerns that its widening gender imbalance will lead to wife trafficking, sexual crimes and social frustration. Shocking new figures show that the worst-affected city, Lianyungang in Jiangsu, has a ratio of 165 boys to 100 girls among children aged one to four.
Naming themselves after Aztec and Inca warriors, they deal in drugs, gun down rivals and glory in the memory of a cannibal jail feast. They are the Latin Kings, a Hispanic gang that has spread across the Americas and Europe. Now, however, thousands of members want to enter mainstream society and go legit.
Armed with a soldering iron and a large supply of energy drinks, a teenager has developed a way to make the iPhone, arguably the gadget of the year, available to a much wider audience. The phone, which combines an innovative touch-screen interface with the media-playing abilities of the iPod, is currently sold only in the United States.
Authorities believe Bangladesh-based Islamic extremists may have been behind a pair of bombings that tore through a popular family restaurant and an outdoor arena in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Saturday, killing at least 42 people, Indian officials said on Sunday. The attacks were the latest in a series of bombings to hit India in the past year.
Storms slammed the rain-soaked United States Midwest and hundreds of thousands of people in the region were without power after their homes were battered by lashing winds and flooding rains. The National Weather Service confirmed multiple tornadoes touched down on Friday in areas north and west of Detroit.
Ruben Uriarte was a young boy growing up in northern California in the 1950s when he saw something strange up in the sky. "I thought it was a balloon, but it was so perfectly round, and it just remained motionless," he recalled on Saturday at the Bay Area UFO Expo in San Jose, California.