Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday moved to Sydney’s main Catholic Cathedral as he prepared to take charge of World Youth Day.
Village Main Reef Gold Mining has received a firm intention from To the Point Investments to make an offer for the rest of its shares.
Tuesday’s reactions to Belgium’s latest government crisis reflected long-standing divisions among the country’s political parties.
Algeria’s former prime minister Ahmed Benbitour said his country would not reap any benefits from membership of the new Union for the Mediterranean.
Mothers who eat a junk-food diet in pregnancy may seriously damage the long-term health of their child, according to recent research.
R5-billion-worth of investment has been poured into the regeneration of Johannesburg’s inner city over the past four years.
<i>M&G</i> reviewers listen to five new CD releases: Aidan Cornhill, BLK JKS, Jim Neversink, Andy Lund and the Mission Men, and The Meditators.
Persian Gulf countries have announced deals worth $15-billion for the latest fuel-efficient aircraft and other planes made by Boeing and Airbus.
As a nation, South Africa has long overcome cultural cringe and the need to emulate Anglo-America for artistic validation.
A Finnish club set the world record on Friday for the longest karaoke session of 216 hours, with the participants vowing to keep going.
A pole dancer who took her writhing spins where they had never been — on to a pole inside a subway car — perked up the morning commute in Santiago.
Western Cape housing minister Richard Dyantyi has applied to rezone land occupied by the informal settlement, despite residents opposing evictions.
Brent Meersman reports on two plays at the National Arts Festival by upcoming black playwrights.
A London restaurant was serving up on Thursday what it hopes will be confirmed as the world’s hottest curry.
A shark was found in a swimming pool at one of Sydney’s most popular beaches on Friday.
A Russian town plans to unveil a monument that shows a man’s hand gripping a nubile female breast.
Pieter Uys has been announced as the new CEO of Vodacom. Uys, the chief operating officer, takes over from Alan Knott-Craig.
An unexpected sexual curse has been uncovered by archaeologists at Cyprus’s old city kingdom of Amathus, on the island’s south coast near Limassol.
The year started on a post-Polokwane note that held out some hope for the opening up of political space and free debate.
South Africa is a nation of activists, but the Congress of South African Trade Unions seems to be barking up the wrong tree.
Latvia lets loose every five years with a huge songfest that long powered its drive for freedom under decades of Moscow-led rule.
A bomb explodes in a busy shopping street, leaving injured shoppers requiring rapid assistance. Thankfully it is only on a computer screen.
The Eiffel Tower is to bring in online ticketing in a bid to slash waiting times of up to two hours for its seven million annual visitors.
Suspected Janjaweed militia have ambushed the beleaguered United Nations mission in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region.
Times are tougher than Vernon Koekemoer’s biceps for South Africans at the moment, yet many of us are slipping further into debt.
The NPA revealed on Wednesday that New Clicks Holdings, trading as Musica, has been found guilty of trading in counterfeit goods.
SAB said on Wednesday that the reaction of local customers to the introduction of Groslch had been outstanding and early sales "very encouraging".
Google on Tuesday rolled out a challenge to virtual world giant <i>Second Life</i> with software that lets people create their own online 3D worlds.
Computer-industry heavyweights are hustling to fix a flaw in the foundation of the internet that would let hackers control traffic on the web.
SABMiller says it has concluded an agreement with Anheuser-Busch to transfer the US importation rights for the Grolsch brand to its US joint venture.
A desperate German woman called the police to rescue her after a friend visiting her talked for 30 hours straight, authorities said Tuesday.
Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL) on Tuesday announced that it has entered into a joint-venture and farm-swap agreement with resources giant Rio Tinto.