South Africa’s players and coaches are taking nothing for granted ahead of Saturday’s match with Scotland.
SA wing Bryan Habana has been ruled out of the remaining Tests of the world champions’ tour after suffering a hand injury in practice on Tuesday.
Wales began their defence of the Six Nations title with four tries in an emphatic 26-13 win over Scotland at Murrayfield on Sunday.
Excitement about the potential of Brazil as a massive new source of oil and gas intensified on Tuesday after a senior Energy Ministry official declared that the newly found…
On the day Jonny Wilkinson set a world points record, the England flyhalf was upstaged by opposite number Chris Paterson in Scotland’s upset 15-9 victory at Murrayfield on…
In the measured tones of the schoolmaster he once was, New Zealand coach Graham Henry gave his half-term assessment of the All Blacks on Sunday evening. ”We are pretty happy…
Doug Howlett became the leading try-scorer in All Blacks history as New Zealand strolled into the World Cup quarterfinals with a 40-0 demolition of Scotland at Murrayfield on…
Scotland sidestepped a potential banana skin with a clinical 42-0 victory over Romania in their World Cup Pool C match at Murrayfield on Tuesday. The Scots executed their game…
South Africa ran in three first-half tries on their way to a morale-boosting 27-3 World Cup warm-up win over Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday. The Scots had dominated in the…
Scotland coach Frank Hadden has told his World Cup aspirants to prepare for the most physically taxing match of their careers when they square up to the Springboks at Murrayfield…
Scotland ran in five tries but had to repel Ireland’s second-half fightback to win 31-21 in their World Cup warm-up at Murrayfield on Saturday. Scotland led 19-6 at half-time…
Edinburgh University stripped Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday of his honourary degree after reviewing evidence of a tribal massacre soon after he took power. The…
She’s as much an emblem — and a tourist draw — as tartan, bagpipes and shortbread. And now Nessie’s back. An amateur scientist has captured what Loch Ness monster watchers say is…
Ireland’s 19-18 win over Scotland, their third Triple Crown triumph, in four years was overshadowed on Saturday by a row over an alleged choking assault on flyhalf Ronan O’Gara.…
Scotland outgunned the Pacific Islanders 34-22 at Murrayfield on Saturday but they weren’t in any mood for a party at the final whistle. The triumph was soured by two more…
Prudence and Polly the pigeons are blissfully unaware that they are at the centre of the latest political storm to hit Scotland’s Parliament. The birds go about their business of…
”Is it time to wash our hands of the country and find a stable life somewhere else?” The question in Girl Blog from Iraq was posted only last weekend by an anonymous young Iraqi…
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told Western newspaper editors on Monday to stop generalising about Africa and concentrate more on the continent’s success stories. Issues…
South Africa’s Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka on Monday told Western newspaper editors to stop generalising about Africa and concentrate more on the continent’s success…
With the weather forecasters anticipating the coldest weekend in Edinburgh in a decade, Scotland must hope the All Blacks also freeze at Murrayfield on Saturday. A 3-0 series win…
