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Lack of stars just 72 hours before the SA Open deadline doesn’t faze Sata chief.
Spain’s Olympic basketball teams posed for a pre-Olympics advertisement making ”slit-eyed” gestures on a court decorated with a Chinese dragon.
It was the murder of his uncle that convinced a prison officer to bring to bring to the world a visual account of life in Zimbabwe under Mugabe.
The United States is operating ”floating prisons” to house those arrested in its war on terror, according to human rights lawyers, who claim there has been an attempt to conceal…
Zimbabwe has been placed last for the second year running in a league table ranking 178 countries by how happy and long-lived their citizens are. But South Africa is not far…
When the Maldives features in the media it is usually in the form of a paean to its silver sands, its magical island resorts in the crystal-clear waters of the Indian Ocean.…
Pressure is growing for the president to lose his job because of his uncompromising stance on the war. That’s President Bartlet, as played by Martin Sheen in the hit television…
The United States government has been accused of trying to undermine the Hugo Chávez government in Venezuela by funding anonymous groups via its main international aid agency.…
For nearly half a century, the CIA and Cuban exiles have been trying to devise ways to assassinate Fidel Castro, who is currently laid low in Cuba following an operation for…
The familiar bearded face gazes out from a billboard over a sunlit old Havana beside the reassuring slogan Vamos bien. Close by, another poster wishes the world’s longest-serving…
Guy Delva’s family do not like travelling in the same car as him. They worry that one of the many enemies that Haiti’s high-profile reporter has made in the course of a 20-year…
Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s socialist president, remembers ”with great affection” the day he went to see Queen Elizabeth II in 2001. ”There’s something I’ll never forget. When I…
The ”Chávez effect”, which started when Hugo Chávez was elected as Venezuelan president in 1998, has made waves across the continent, with the ”pink tide” now lapping as far as…
More than 20-million people in the Horn of Africa are at risk of famine, in conditions the head of the World Food Programme (WFP) described recently as the worst in his…
With controversial Muslim cleric Abu Hamza sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment for soliciting to murder and race hate offences, British police have revealed to the public what…
Five trillion dollars has been corruptly removed from the world’s poorest countries and lodged permanently in the world’s richest countries. That is the ”conservative…
The Louisiana coastline may have been so badly damaged by the hurricane because man-made engineering of the delta has led to erosion of natural defences, according to the…
The Brazilian shot dead by police on a tube train in mistake for a suicide bomber had already been overpowered by a surveillance officer before he was killed, according to secret…
The words of Tupac Shakur and Big Rube have joined those of F Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck in English classes in one the toughest areas of Los Angeles. Students on the…
Hunter S Thompson, at the age of 67, took his life with a gunshot to the head at his home in Woody Creek, Colorado. Obituary
