ON CIRCUIT: <i>Asterix at the Olympic Games</i>, <i>Cadillac Records</i>, <i>Duplicity</i>
The US auto industry faced an uncertain future after talks with Germany on the fate of General Motors’ Opel unit collapsed.
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was to meet with President Barack Obama Thursday as the new US administration steps up pressure on Israel.
Cape Malay cuisine is indeed unique. It is a magnificent, eclectic combination of numerous food cultures.
Being a thin person in an African setting where the women take great pleasure in having meat on their bones has been a frustrating experience for me.
A perfect storm of coinciding crises is killing some US newspapers and hurting many others, and the people within the local press are getting nervous.
US immigration officials detained a man at an airport for four hours after customs checks revealed he had no fingerprints.
Icasa chair Paris Mashile has expressed "foreboding" over the ability of local cellphone providers to accommodate network traffic during the 2010 Cup.
<i>M&G</i> reviewers give their take on a selection of CDs worth listening to.
Bangladesh and India launched major relief efforts on Tuesday after a cyclone hit the northern coast of the Bay of Bengal, killing at least 84 people.
It would be foolhardy to venture technological predictions for 2050. Even more so to predict social and geopolitical changes.
Global leaders quickly directed their anger at North Korea on Monday for carrying out a nuclear bomb test.
The creation of another structure in the form of a ministry to promote the rights of women, alongside other disempowered groups, is ill-considered.
As a transport minister, accepting a gift from a group of road contractors Ndebele was risking seriously compromising himself.
Britain’s economy is contracting at its sharpest pace in almost three decades amid the worst global downturn since the 1930s, official data shows.
SA ‘s foreign minister on Friday expressed grave concern over the trial of Burma Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, calling for her release.
The United States government is readying to steer General Motors into bankruptcy, according to a media report on Thursday.
The country’s interest was piqued this week as news filtered through of a Mercedes-Benz gift made to new Transport Minister S’bu Ndebele.
Indonesian air investigators have started sifting through the charred debris of a military transport plane that crashed and left 100 people dead.
Children are being abducted from camps housing those displaced by Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict, human rights groups charged on Thursday.
South Africa was one of the countries lagging behind many others by not setting up a ministry specifically devoted to women’s rights and gender equality.
The head of the World Bank said on Wednesday there were signs the global financial crisis was easing, but warned there were still potential risks.
A German telecoms firm commissioned reports on the personal details, including the sex lives, of prospective workers, a report said on Wednesday.
The first accounts of the suffering begin to emerge from Sri Lanka’s internment camps, where as many as a quarter of a million Tamils are being held.
South African wine sales are being hit by the global economic crisis, South Africa’s Wine of the Month Club said on Tuesday.
India’s ruling Congress-led alliance was set to return to power after taking a commanding lead on Saturday in vote counting.
The Sri Lankan government vowed on Friday to capture all Tamil Tiger-held territory within 48 hours.
An Australian woman on Friday broadcast an appeal for help to stop a sexually frustrated giant bird from trying to herd her into its nest.
The SA Reserve Bank is expected to continue its aggressive monetary easing, which should help bolster domestic demand, economists said on Friday.
Transport parastatal Transnet announced on Friday that it has concluded the disposal of its remaining passenger rail and civil aviation interests.
What are the real reasons behind this week’s unseemly spat between DA leader Helen Zille and the ANC?
<i>M&G</i> reviewers give their take on a selection of CDs wirth listening to.