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S. African openers humiliate England

Sports | Cricket
2009-11-17

SOUTH African openers Graeme Smith and Loots Bosman shared a world record partnership to set up a devastating 84-run victory over England in their Twenty20 international at Centurion on Sunday. The pair scored...

G8 mostly skips UN hunger summit, scepticism rife

World
2009-11-16

GOVERNMENT leaders and officials meet in Rome today for a three-day UN summit on how to fight global hunger, but anti-poverty campaigners are already writing off the event as a missed opportunity. With the world's...

Oh, snow: famous mountain is melting

World
2009-11-4

THE snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone. The African mountain's white peak - made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway - is rapidly melting, researchers report. Some 85 percent of the ice that made up the mountaintop...

Drought pushes up hunger in 7 African nations

World
2009-9-30

DROUGHT for a fifth year running is driving more than 23 million east Africans in seven countries toward severe hunger and destitution, international aid agency Oxfam said yesterday. Launching a US$9.5 million...

South Africa track boss faces calls to go

Sports | Athletics
2009-9-23

SOUTH African track officials will meet this week to discuss the future of their president, who faces calls to go after he admitted to lying about his role in the gender-test case of runner Caster Semenya. Attlee...

SA coach quits over Semenya sex-test lies

Sports | Athletics
2009-9-9

A SOUTH African track coach has resigned, saying on Monday that he and other officials failed a world champion runner by not telling her she was being subjected to tests to determine her sex. Wilfred Daniels'...

US to launch US$15 billion food initiative at G8

World
2009-7-10

WORLD leaders met today with African nations before an expected announcement of a new food security proposal that represents a fundamental shift in the way the West tackles world hunger, taking wisdom from the old...

G8 welcomes developing states, eyes climate, trade

World
2009-7-9

LEADERS of the world's richest and main developing nations meet today to try to find common ground on global warming and international trade, with the poorer countries seeking concessions. US President Barack...

G8 stresses need for stimulus as economy is still too shaky

World
2009-7-9

WORLD leaders agreed that the global economy is too unstable to begin rolling back massive fiscal stimulus plans in the near future, according to a draft of the Group of Eight statement on the world economy obtained...

G8 summit skips dollar debate,aims lower on climate

World
2009-7-8

G8 leaders have failed to get emerging powers to agree climate change goals for 2050 and conclusions from their summit will not directly refer to a sensitive debate about the domination of the dollar. Draft documents...