In long distance running, there is one event that is the most challenging of all. While the marathon and ultra-marathon can be rough, and closing 1 500m in the Olympic decathlon can break people, to find the cauldron where the…
Here’s this morning’s news update: An easy-to-read selection of top stories. Keep up to date with it The Warga – More news, Your Way. Daily news update: February 18 Cele said police have cleared 99% of the DNA backlog File…
Plumbers maintain effluence. Think of it as our colostomy: rubber gloves; the channel is cleared. Laughing. That’s why I cracked up when my crack plumber showed up. No, Mr. Plumber, you didn’t just pump every columnist on this page down…
Vietnamese police have found about 2,000 dead cats intended for traditional medicine, state media said Friday. The bodies of the felines were found at a slaughterhouse in Dong Thap province in the Mekong Delta on Thursday, along with 480 live…
In a saga that stunned France half a century ago, a group of admirers of French Nazi collaborator Philippe Petain stole his coffin from the Atlantic island where he died in prison to bury him alongside World War I heroes…
A Japanese Justice Ministry panel on Friday proposed raising the age of consent in the country, which is currently the lowest in the world at just 13 years, as part of a major overhaul of sex crime laws. The move…
China’s financial sector has been shocked by reports that Bao Fan, the billionaire chairman of investment bank China Renaissance, has disappeared. No official statement was immediately made by the authorities to explain his whereabouts, but there is widespread speculation that…
M23 rebels raped more than 60 women and girls during an attack in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in November, Amnesty International said on Friday. The rights organization said it had collected testimonies from 35 victims and eyewitnesses and described…
In January 2023, the secretary of the treasury of the United States, Janet Yellen, visited Senegal, South Africa and Zambia during a 10-day visit to the African continent. The trip is in connection with the US-Africa Leaders Summit which is…
A more than 1,000-year-old Hebrew Bible will sell at auction in New York for about $50 million, Sotheby’s announced Wednesday. The Sassoon Codex – which dates from the late ninth to the early tenth century – is the most complete…