Новости за 19.05.2016

According to the popular press it was more likely in 2015 for a person to die while taking a selfie than to be killed by a shark – this is globally.

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the giraffe for the first time, uncovering DNA quirks that help explain how the tallest animals on Earth developed their remarkably long necks.

It has become a conceit of the New Left to begin opinion pieces with a quotation from Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth.

Any author will tell you that a book launch could kill you.

You could be forgiven for thinking that South Africa and its people are bipolar.

Saturday evening's annual KZN Young Performers Concert, featuring the province's philharmonic orchestra, will be quite a challenge for one of the soloists - he will have to perform way past his bedtime.

A township such as Khayelitsha suffers from violence, poverty, disease and distress.

South African professional women are not relaxing when it comes to their hair.

The US Senate has passed legislation allowing September 11 victims and their families to sue other countries for their roles in the attacks, defying White House objections and reported threats by Saudi Arabia to sell its US debt holdings.

As much as a bakkieload of medical waste could wash ashore on Durban's prime beaches soon, city officials warned yesterday.

Suspended crime intelligence boss Lieutenant-General Richard Mdluli is plotting his return to office.

Borrowers might be spared higher interest rates today even though the rand's fall this week, coinciding with the firestorm around the threat of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan being arrested, has raised the odds for a rates hike.

A South African soldier will face a court martial for alleged sexual abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he is serving in a UN peacekeeping mission.

Macbute "Macman" Sinyabi could lose his status as the South African featherweight champion if he fails to defend his title before the end of this month.

South African cricket should brace itself for a drain of talent and experience in the next two years due to a weak currency and the sport's increasingly complicated politics.

About 150 doctors each year - 11% of graduates - do not do community service, either leaving the profession or emigrating.

The ANC does not believe Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan was referring to the organisation or any of its members when he pleaded for help on Tuesday.

The government will impose an environmental levy on mining companies, the proceeds of which will go towards the R12-billion needed to treat Gauteng's acid mine water.

Taboos about discussing sex must be overcome to save lives, says Graça Machel.

Civil society bodies, education groups and runners have banded together to raise funds for schools in embattled Vuwani.

There is new hope of finally defeating HIV - a vaccine to prevent the disease to be tested in South Africa in November.

CNN viewers slammed Donald Trump's senior press representative, Healy Baumgardner, on Wednesday for a robotic interview that was instantly compared to a skit on Saturday Night Live.

Your membership is worth more than you even know.

They say high school never ends. But for much of the Laguna Beach cast, so much has changed since they opened their lives up for MTV cameras. Almost 12 years after fans first met some of...

Comedian Kathy Griffin called on Cinco de Mayo to discuss her May 20 performance at the Rococo Theatre.