Education activists staged a protest – and stirred up a hornet’s nest online featuring Mmusi Maimane and Helen Zille – when they staged a protest to demand safer schools outside the home of Western Cape education MEC Debbie Schafer on Thursday.
Sydney FC will travel to Wollongong to face Wolves in the opening round of the 2016 FFA Cup
SA’s Competition Tribunal says AB InBev can buy SABMiller, but attaches conditions to its approval.
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Sergei Gorbachev is one of the three Russian football fans imprisoned in France after the violent clashes with England fans in Marseille earlier this month. In an interview with Radio Sputnik Sergei’s lawyer, Alain Duflot, spoke about his client.
Vier Amsterdamse kerken stonden vandaag stil bij de geboortedag van André Hazes. De in 2004 overleden volkszanger zou op deze dag 65 jaar oud zijn geworden. Ter ere daarvan spelen vier carillons zijn hit Bloed, Zweet en Tranen. Dochter Roxeanne Hazes kreeg er kippenvel van.
Vier Amsterdamse kerken staan vandaag stil bij de geboortedag van André Hazes. De in 2004 overleden volkszanger zou op deze dag 65 jaar oud zijn geworden. Ter ere daarvan spelen vier carillons zijn hit Bloed, Zweet en Tranen.
The trailers were later found empty. Because of quality concerns, Sarkisian says the beer, worth about $90,000, will be taken to a recycling facility.
Oscar organisers invite a record number of new members to vote in the next Academy Awards, in response to sharp criticism about lack of diversity.
Maurice Lévy says investment will switch to Europe after Brexit vote
He's still standing.
The former Argentina icon has lambasted the Three Lions following their humiliating Euro 2016 defeat to Iceland, insisting they are "short on talent" and deserved to lose
ABINGDON, Va. (AP) — The governors of Tennessee and Virginia will be in Abingdon along with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to talk about the drug abuse epidemic in Appalachia.
The event Thursday afternoon comes as President Barack Obama's administration seeks about $1.1 billion more for substance abuse treatment. Vilsack says the administration wants to expand the number of treatment centers nationally, train about 700 new drug treatment specialists and evaluate the results.
Two years ago, mining heiress Gina Rinehart was estimated to be worth a staggering $20 billion, but, just as her fortune has diminished to a more modest $6 billion, a more positive downsizing has also been taking place: her weight.
South Africa's rand dips against the dollar on Thursday morning amid a slowing recovering by emerging assets.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will countenance Syrian President Bashar al-Assad leaving office, but only when it is confident a change of leader will not trigger a collapse of the Syrian government, sources familiar with the Kremlin's thinking say.
Getting to that point could take years, and in the meantime Russia is prepared to keep backing Assad, regardless of international pressure to jettison him, those sources said.
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After hearing word had gotten out about his affair with a Brother for Life member's wife, Mohammed Hamzy feared he was going to get hurt.
LONDEN (ANP) - Een beslissing over de aanleg van een derde start- en landingsbaan op de Londense luchthaven Heathrow wordt opnieuw uitgesteld, meldt de BBC donderdag. De regering zou deze zomer een besluit nemen, maar daar wordt nu mee gewacht tot de regerende Conservatieve Partij een nieuwe leider en premier heeft gekozen.
US personal consumption, disposable incomes and the housing market all performed fairly poorly in May, indicating the broader economy continues losing steam closer to mid-2016, and investment and industrial figures point at a recession quite possible soon.
JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli teenager to death in her bedroom in the West Bank early Thursday before he was shot dead, the Israeli army and a Jerusalem hospital said. The military said Israelis civilian security officers fired at the assailant. The Palestinian health ministry identified the assailant as Mohammed Tarayreh, 19, from the nearby Bani Naim village. In June, however, Palestinian gunmen killed four Israeli civilians in Tel Aviv.
Two plebiscites — one a divorce, one a marriage
(AP) — Eastern Tennessee taxpayers will pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit filed after a photo appeared to show a deputy choking a college student who was charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest. The Knoxville News Sentinel (http://bit.ly/29lwsan ) reports that the settlement of the federal civil rights lawsuit filed by former University of Tennessee Jarod D. Dotson was announced Tuesday.