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Holiday movies to put on your watchlist

A list of movies to keep you entertained this festive season.

President Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia.

Scepticism greets the Gambia’s Islamic republic status

Commenters think Jammeh is looking towards the Arab world as substitute for and source of development aid.

SA could be barred from taking part in Rugby World Cup

SA, one of the favourites for the Rugby World Cup, will be prevented from taking part in the tournament if a court action this week succeeds.

A gathering on March 29 in Pyongyang shows support for the North Korean Army’s statement that it would win in the battle with the United States and South Korea. Photo:

‘We’re not giving up our nukes’ – North Korea

North Korea is not interested in an Iran-like dialogue with the US to give up its nuclear capabilities, its foreign ministry has said.

A Palestinian man walks past a fire in a street started to keep mosquitoes away from the shattered homes of Shujai’iya

Greek MPs pass austerity bill as Athens police clash with protesters

Alexis Tsipras drives through tax increases and pensions shake-up amid angry splits in his Syriza party.

Chelsea fans spoil Cech’s departure

Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech was accused of being a traitor and a snake for leaving for the London rivals of Chelsea.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes there is a campaign by the media

Manuel Pellegrini says José Mourinho takes credit ‘for everything’

Manchester City coach Manuel Pellegrini has started the mind games early for next season by attacking his Chelsea rival.

Lucky to be alive: About 300 sub-Saharan Africans are rescued after the boat they were travelling in capsized.

Caught between the deep blue sea and devilish Libyan crooks

Three young men among 800 African migrants survived not only the wiles of the smugglers, but also a shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea.

Contraband: The rhino is extinct in Mozambique but the country is used as a gateway to smuggle rhino horn and elephant tusk from South Africa to China and Vietnam.

Thieves raid huge rhino horn haul in Mozambique

Mozambican officials are arrested on suspicion they aided the theft from a police storeroom.

Amnesty International reports abduction, torture and rape of refugees

Migrants give chilling testimonies of abuses committed by smugglers and armed groups in Libya.

Oskar Groening.

Auschwitz survivor wants SS officer prosecutions to stop

Eva Kor, who publicly forgave and embraced former camp guard Oskar Gröning, says stopping the case would help counter neo-Nazi Holocaust deniers.

Zuma also delivered what appeared to be a veiled threat to the current ANC leadership

Men don’t worry about their sperm count – but they should

Thanks to a lack of anxiety among men, the current reality of a crisis in male fertility hasn’t been taken seriously yet.

Netanyahu mounts final push to grab power in election

Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has launched a last-minute media blitz to convince voters he should stay in office.

Young Fathers: Race gets ‘head-on’ pop mix

Young Fathers’s new album promises to be their interpretation of what a pop album should sound like.

Talks with Iran at UN headquarters in Vienna in April sought to unpick the international nuclear knot.

Spy cables: SA pressured by US to monitor Iranian agents

Iranian embassy staff members in Pretoria were scrutinised despite intelligence service stating repeatedly that Iran poses no threat to the country.

Refugees: More than a million people may have been forced to leave their homes in northern Nigeria by the insurgency of Islamist sect Boko Haram.

Boko Haram exports reign of terror

The militant group is said to have invaded Cameroonian towns, sparking fears that it is expanding into neighbouring countries.

Africa sets its sights on space

It is hoped a lunar mission will inspire the next generation of engineers and scientists.

Earth compared to 55 Cancri e.

Hunt for habitable planets hots up

The discovery of 55 Cancri e means ground-based telescopes could be used to find new "super-Earths".

Beyoncé took the number one spot on the top 10 most-mentioned entertainers on Facebook in the United States.

Beyonce new album rumours get quashed

Following rumours that Beyonce would release a second surprise album, her representative says the US singer will release a boxset of her 2013 album.

Pope Francis attracted both admiration and criticism during his tenure, with some criticising him because he disrupted the foundations of their sense of security — which are their empires.

Pope Francis: evolution and creation both right

Pope Francis has cautioned against portraying God as a magician and says it is possible to believe in evolution and creation.