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Cold weather has killed nine homeless people in India, bringing the death toll from three weeks of near-freezing temperatures to 116.
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Qatari driver Nasser al-Attiyah took the overall race lead after winning the eighth stage of the Dakar Rally on Monday.
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The flooding of the Vaal River has caused considerable crop damages along its banks in three provinces.
Jared Lee Loughner was suspended from college and had been in trouble with the police. Yet he could buy a gun and kill six people.
After the shootings in Arizona, US left and right are at odds over effects of toxic politics.
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Tzipi Livni’s Kadima party is to oppose legislation to investigate funding of civil and human rights groups in Israel.
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Tunisia President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali blamed weekend rioting that left at least 14 people dead on "gangs of thugs".
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An Iranian human rights lawyer who has worked with Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, has been jailed for 11 years.
Argentinian Lionel Messi won the Ballon d’Or for the second successive year, beating his more favoured Barcelona team-mates Iniesta and Xavi
A No Pants Gautrain Ride — coinciding with the 10th annual No Pants Subway Ride in New York — ended with 34 "indecent" people being handcuffed.
Agri SA is fully prepared to support a meaningful land-reform programme, the organisation’s president, Johannes Möller, said on Monday.
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The department of sports and recreation is devising a plan for sports development in the country, Minister Fikile Mbalula said on Monday.
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Suspected al-Qaeda kidnappers killed two young French hostages in ‘cold blood’ during a failed rescue operation in the deserts of Niger.
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Chinese investment in Zambia topped $1-billion and created 15 000 jobs in 2010, with $5-billion more to be spent in the coming years.
There will be greater access to tertiary education institutions, Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande announced in Pretoria on Monday
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A body believed to be that of businessman Rob Taylor, who gave a R2-million Audi to a group of car guards, was found in Cape Town.
The UN should consider expanding sanctions on Côte d’Ivoire to target Laurent Gbagbo, who has refused to resign as president after a disputed poll.
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Northam Platinum announced Monday that an employee died in a tramming accident on Sunday morning.
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Three men appeared in court on Monday in connection with the murder of Ehlanzeni district municipality chief whip Johan Holme Ndlovu.
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New vehicle sales in December improved by almost 30% compared with the previous year, the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of SA says.
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China has followed Japan’s lead in the capsule-hotel market, amid an explosion of leisure travel in the world’s most populous country.
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Jobs in the retail sector received a boost from festive spending, but overall employment was down in December.
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A total of 151 people were treated for food poisoning in Cape Town over the weekend, the city’s Disaster Risk Management Centre said on Monday.
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Nissan expressed confidence in how Renault is handling an international spy ring’s attempt to steal secrets about their shared electric car programme.
Dolphins spin bowler Imran Tahir has replaced Lions batsman Jonathan Vandiar in SA’s preliminary 30-man Cricket World Cup squad.
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The ANCYL has welcomed the ANC’s vision for transforming the economy, spokesperson Floyd Shivambu said on Monday.
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Qatar’s Nasser al-Attiyah halved Volkswagen teammate Carlos Sainz’s overall Dakar Rally lead on Sunday with a seventh stage win.
<i>M&G</i> political reporter Mandy Rossouw highlights some of the key points in President Zuma’s 2011 speech at Polokwane on January 8.
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Fourteen were killed this weekend in the deadliest incidents yet in a wave of protests in Tunisia sparked by high food prices and unemployment.
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Computer hackers from South and North Korea are waging an apparent propaganda battle in cyberspace.
There has not been much progress in government’s job creation project due to the economic crisis, said President Jacob Zuma on Sunday.
The funeral of controversial businessman Sandile Majali in Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape went ahead peacefully, his lawyer said on Sunday.