Parliament – What a difference 10 minutes can make. Once Parliament had been cleared of his most vocal opponents, many of them by force, Jacob Zuma started a State of the Nation (SONA) speech that would have seemed fitting in the most sedate of ...

Ghana's Jordan Ayew (left) celebrates after scoring against Congo in the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final on Sunday. Photo: Gavin Barker/BackpagePix. JOHANNESBURG - The quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations produced four entertaining matches.

Gunmen from Somalia's violent Islamic extremist rebels fought their way into a hotel in the in Mogadishu after a suicide car bomb exploded at its gates, a police officer. Picture: Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP. Picture: Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP. Picture: Farah ...

Ghana coach Avram Grant says collecting points is more important than performing well at this stage of the Africa Cup of Nations. Photo: Chris Ricco/BackpagePix. Libreville, Gabon - Avram Grant slouched on his chair as he watched Ghana overcome ...

Ghana's Asamoah Gyan (right) gets away from Uganda's Hassan Wasswa during their Africa Cup of Nations match at the Port Gentil Stadium in Gabon on Tuesday. Ghana won 1-0. Photo: BackpagePix. Libreville, Gabon - Asamoah Gyan, a veteran of six ...

London - The pound again bore the brunt of Theresa May's Brexit planning, falling beneath $1.20 for the first time since October after newspapers reported she is prepared to leave Europe's single market and customs union if that's what it takes to ...

Banjul – Gambia's outgoing President Yayah Jammeh will not step down when his mandate ends on January 18, despite his electoral defeat, the Information Ministry said Thursday. The autocrat, who ruled the small West African nation for 22 years, will ...

Manchester United's Zlatan Ibrahimovic said Tuesday he was eyeing the possibility of a move to the the United States. "I can see myself conquering the US, just as I have (conquered) Europe," the 35-year-old Swede told daily newspaper Aftonbladet in an ...

Washington - President Barack Obama is set to welcome his successor, Donald Trump, to the White House, extending an olive branch to a man he has blasted as unfit to serve as commander in chief and who led the charge to challenge the legitimacy of his ...

Pretoria - South Africa's anti-graft watchdog called for a judge to investigate allegations of influence peddling in President Jacob Zuma's government, in a report released on Wednesday as thousands of protesters called for the president to step down.

Accra, Ghana - French Prime Minister Manuel Valls issued an appeal on Sunday to overcome the legacy of slavery, dismissing claims for financial compensation while acknowledging the "horror" of the slave trade. Valls was visiting Franklin House, a ...

Rome - A pair of strong aftershocks shook central Italy late Wednesday, crumbling churches and buildings, knocking out power and sending panicked residents into the rain-drenched streets just two months after a powerful earthquake killed nearly 300 ...

Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma has warned that illicit financial flows out of Africa of about $50 billion a year are depriving the continent of much needed resources for development. In a statement on Wednesday, the Presidency quoted Zuma as ...

San Francisco - Instagram, the photo-sharing app owned by Facebook, on Monday launched a keyword moderation tool to allow its users to control the comments posted on their pictures. The feature allows its users to list words that they consider ...

Pretoria - Mayor of Tshwane Solly Msimanga will continue using the BMW 5 Series he inherited from his predecessor, Kgosientso Ramokgopa, but will replace it with a cheaper car when it “retires”. Upon reaching its prescribed lifespan of 100 000km in ...

Durban - South African universities have dropped markedly in the QS World University Rankings survey, with the country's best ranked tertiary institution, the University of Cape Town, slipping 20 places. Apart from the new entrants - North West ...

IOL pic oct1 Microsoft Windows 10 Associated Press This image, provided by Microsoft, shows the Start menu of Windows 10, the company's next version of its flagship operating system. Picture: Microsoft, via AP. Los Angeles - Microsoft unveiled its latest ...

IOL pic sep23 SYRIA-CRISIS-TURKEY-REFUGEES_0923_11 Reuters Syrian Kurdish refugees sit on their cars on the Syrian side of the Turkish-Syrian border near the town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province on September 23, 2014. More than 130 000 Syrian ...

IOL pic sep23 USA-WHITEHOUSE-SECURITY_0922_11 Reuters US Secret Service Uniformed Division officers are joined by US Park Police (left) and a National Park Service employee as they stand watch over the north fence of the White House, along ...

Singapore - Oil prices fell in Asia Monday as dealers await key Chinese manufacturing data for clues about demand in the world's top energy consumer, analysts said. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for October delivery eased 40 cents to $92.01 (R1 ...