S Africa snowfall strands motorists overnight
Unusually heavy snowfall caused major disruption on South Africa’s roads yesterday with people still stranded at midday after spending the night stuck in their vehicles.The...
Month : September 2024
Belgian team wins S Africa’s ‘most extreme’ solar car race
A team of Belgian students and engineers have won a solar-powered car race in South Africa widely considered the most challenging for testing the technology.Over...
Polls close in first Sri Lanka vote since economic collapse
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka voted for its next president yesterday in an effective referendum on an unpopular International Monetary Fund austerity plan enacted after the island...
Biden talks China with ‘Quad’ leaders in hometown summit
US President Joe Biden met with the leaders of Japan, India and Australia to discuss the challenges a rising China poses to their countries, ahead...
First early votes are cast in knife-edge US presidential election
The first early voters cast their ballots on Friday for November’s knife-edge US presidential election, as Democratic candidate Kamala Harris headed for a campaign event...
Harris joins Oprah in campaign event
A star-studded virtual event hosted by Oprah Winfrey on Thursday night to build enthusiasm for Kamala Harris’s campaign was marked by teary moments and celebrity...
US Secret Service admits ‘deficiencies’
The US Secret Service has detailed a litany of failures uncovered by its review of the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump at a...
Dolphins start dying again in Amazon lake becoming shallow due to drought
The carcass of a baby dolphin lay on the sand bank left exposed by the receding waters in an Amazon lake that has been drying...
Hunt for origins of Lebanon pager attack widens to Bulgaria, Norway
Supply chains investigated after deadly pager attackBulgaria opens probe after one company linkedWhereabouts of executives in Norway, Hungary unknownBulgaria and Norway became new focal points...
Russia warns of ‘destructive consequences’ of Israeli mlitary operation in Lebanon
The Russian Foreign Ministry reiterated that the launch of any full-scale Israeli military operation in Lebanon would have ‘destructive consequences’ for the security of the...