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/ 7 September 2009
After decades of messages warning that watching pirated films is a criminal offence, a new campaign aims to win over the "Generation Y-pay?"
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/ 6 September 2009
Somalia’s foreign minister on Saturday said the embattled government was in direct contact with extremist insurgents.
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/ 6 September 2009
South Africans should buy the new Mazda3 in droves, but we probably won’t. It’s an improvement on a rather impressive predecessor.
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/ 5 September 2009
It’s tempting to dismiss last weekend’s landslide election victory of Japan’s opposition as reflectinga bad-tempered mood among recession-hit voters.
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/ 4 September 2009
A hard-hitting film designed to warn youngsters in south Wales about the danger of SMSing while driving has become an internet hit.
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/ 3 September 2009
The movement opposing Google’s $125-million deal for the rights to digitise millions of books has gained even more momentum.
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/ 3 September 2009
The fabled beauty of the Kremlin’s golden onion domes dusted with winter snow may be a thing of the past under a scheme by the Moscow mayor.
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/ 3 September 2009
At least 18 people were killed on Wednesday when gunmen stormed into a drug treatment centre in Mexico’s violence-plagued city of Ciudad Juarez.
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/ 3 September 2009
Gabon’s electoral commission said a delay in announcing the outcome of the contest to become president was due to a "misunderstanding".
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/ 2 September 2009
Britain’s anti-drugs campaign in Helmand achieves its first major breakthrough, according to new United Nations figures.
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/ 2 September 2009
The Central Methodist church has an "open-door policy" for up to 3 500 people, mostly destitute Zimbabwean refugees.
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/ 1 September 2009
US online auction giant eBay will announce on Tuesday a plan to sell its web communication service Skype to an investment group.
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/ 1 September 2009
Attacks by the Lord’s Resistance Army are spreading fear and the threat of famine through previously undisturbed tracts of the DRC.
Not all scientific breakthroughs make it to the global news arena, yet they are happening all around us on a daily basis, mostly going unnoticed
It is a debate that has raged in European capitals ahead of the 70th anniversary on Tuesday of the beginning of the Second World War.
Google has already scanned 10m books in its bid to digitise the contents of the world’s libraries, but a copyright battle now threatens the project.
The DRC military said Saturday it had killed or captured more than 500 Rwandan Hutu rebels after an offensive launched six weeks ago.
Saif Gadaffi says it was "not a secret" Libyans were linking oil and trade deal with bid to get Abdelbasset al-Megrahi released.
The best candidates for reconciliation financing are small-scale revenue-generating projects such as small and micro enterprises.
South African President Jacob Zuma on Friday urged donors to give more development aid to Zimbabwe to help the unity government.
The retail price of all grades of petrol will increase by 36 cents a litre on Wednesday September 2, it was announced on Friday.
A seven-year-old British boy was celebrating after passing a maths exam normally undertaken by students more than twice his age.
Facebook has been forced to give its users more control over how much of their personal information is shared with the social networking site.
SABMiller is using legislation to speed up the licensing of its retail customers.
A sci-fi blockbuster that’s also an allegory of apartheid? <i>District 9</i> is the biggest of a glut of films about South Africa’s traumatic past.
In SA, common sense goes out the window when politics and sport collide. And in the Caster Semenya controversy, we have just witnessed it again.
South Africa’s producer price index registered deflation of -3,8% year-on-year in July from -4,1% in June, Statistics SA said on Thursday.
Impala Platinum, the world’s second-largest platinum producer, on Thursday reported a 52% fall in full-year headline earnings per share.
SA’s Treasury on Wednesday reopened its $1,5-billion 2019 Eurobond issued in May to raise an additional $500-million, a spokesperson said.
Madagascar’s power-brokers on Wednesday tackled the thorny question of who will lead a new transitional government.
The first cases of what might be another cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe are being investigated by the World Health Organisation.
After years spent hunting for the remains of prehistoric animals, a paleontologist now plans to use chicken embryos to show he can create a dinosaur.