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Canary in the coalmine: How Christopher Dorner keeps showing up in protest music

Musicians break genre boundaries and, through the lyrics about the Los Angeles police officer who killed cops, express black anger

Busisiwe Mkhwebane. (Madelene Cronje/M&G)

How Bush Snr’s failed Somalia intervention shaped US-Africa ties

As the US bids farewell to former US President George H.W. Bush, in Africa he is remembered most for his failed bid to stabilise Somalia

Former US president Barack Obama awards the Medal of Freedom to former US president George H.W. Bush during a ceremony to present the awards at the White House in February 2011. (Reuters/Larry Downing)

Former US president George H.W. Bush dead at 94

Bush’s passing comes just months after the death in April of his wife and revered first lady Barbara Bush

In honour of Bush’s life

Former US first lady Barbara Bush dies at 92

Bush died Tuesday at the age of 92, triggering an outpouring of praise for the matriarch of a Republican family once at the apex of American politics

Former US president George HW Bush Snr.

George Bush senior in ICU

A spokesperson for George HW Bush says the former United States president is in the intensive care unit at a Texas hospital.

From big oil to big wind

T Boone Pickens is famous for thinking big. He founded his Texan oil company, Mesa Petroleum, in 1956 with just 500 in the bank. After a string of audacious takeovers he turned…

Piasecki was ‘pioneer in establishing helicopter industry’

Aviation pioneer Frank Piasecki, inventor of the tandem-rotor helicopter used in troop-transport missions and land and sea rescue flights, has died. He was 88. Igor Sikorsky…

Southern preacher could be saviour of Republicans

He is a former governor of Arkansas from a town called Hope. He has a nice line in campaign humour and speaks like a Deep South preacher. He is also running for president. But…

‘You’ve gotta think, think BIG’

Who is George Bush? A gaffe-ridden buffoon? The man who confronts the evildoers? Or is he Bush as Bush sees himself, the decider, a leader who makes the hard choices and sticks…

Court approves Noriega’s extradition to France

Panama’s former dictator, Manuel Noriega, can be extradited to France for a money-laundering trial after he completes a lengthy jail sentence in Miami next month, a United States…