The court ruling handed a major victory to Trump in a tortuous legal battle over the Republican leader’s efforts to restrict immigration
The justices ruled 5-4 that the most recent version of the ban, which the administration claims is justified by national security concerns, was valid
Entrepreneurs in China’s south-west are dreaming of turning the city of Chengdu into the world’s next Silicon Valley.
China’s new leaders will soon reveal themselves in a piece of political theatre critics say is out of step with a fast-modernising society.
A remote region of China that began producing fine wine only a decade ago has beaten the French wine-producing region of Bordeaux in a blind tasting.
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Forty-five miners trapped underground after a rock blast in a Chinese coal mine were brought to the surface on Saturday in a rare successful rescue,.
Li Fu is 29, owns five cars and has a diamond-encrusted cell phone. Wang Qingzhan is 44, works as a cleaner and lives with his family in a tiny room.
A Boeing 737-400 passenger jet burst into flames when it landed at Yogyakarta in central Indonesia on Wednesday, killing at least 49 people and leaving dozens more burnt and wounded, officials said. Witnesses said the front wheel of the Garuda Indonesia plane blew out as it touched down, sending flames shooting into the air and triggering a series of explosions.
Fifteen years after the tragedy, new light has fallen on the real reasons behind the mid-air explosion that downed Pan-Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland. Two hundred and seventy people lost their lives: 259 on board the Boeing 747 and 11 on the ground.
With the latest three Spoornet railway accidents, South Africa has proudly claimed world leadership in southern hemisphere train crash casualties. During the rail accident year 2002/03, a total of 123 South African passengers lost their lives in railway accidents.
A woman living in the Western Cape town of Bellville East believes she has been receiving what she describes as "visions of the Saviour". Betty Deventer, an Absa bank accountant’s widow, has spoken of seeing the face of Jesus in her domestic endeavours, including in the arrangement of her dogs’ blankets and a plate of vegetable curry.
Interesting new evidence has appeared that seems to confirm rumours that secret plans are underway to re-establish a political party that has long since been declared dead and buried. <i>Not the Mail & Guardian</i> has come into possession of documents that reveal detailed strategies, internal correspondence and part of a “mission statement” behind the re-emergence of what is to be called the Old National Party (ONP).
A new Afrikaner resistance group has been founded and is gathering members at a rate described as "frantic". Calling itself the Afrikaner Young Women’s Union (AYWU), the group has its base in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, an area known as home to the more progressive of Afrikaans political thinking. As its name suggests, the AYWU is entirely female in origin and style.