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Bart Simpson joins Barbie in Iran ban

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The Simpsons are corroding the morals of Iranian youth, an official said on Monday, as dolls based on Bart, Homer and the rest of the American cartoon family joined the shapely Barbie among Western to...

Manuel rules out nationalisation

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Minister in the Presidency Trevor Manuel on Monday said government was clear about ruling out the nationalisation of mines.He addressed a special session at a mining indaba in Cape Town.The minister t...

Family battle to bury obese man

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Hospital officials and relatives of a morbidly obese Pretoria man are struggling to lay him to rest because of his size. Last Thursday, Chris Labuschagne was moved with the help of the fire department...

Redknapp defence team attacks tabloid reporting

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A lawyer defending Tottenham Hotspur manager Harry Redknapp attacked prosecutors on Monday for using evidence from a tabloid newspaper to support its allegations that he cheated the taxman.Redknapp, t...

Frimpong back at Arsenal

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It was confirmed on Monday that midfielder Emmanuel Frimpong was returning to Arsenal, after his loan spell with Wolverhampton Wanderers was cut short by a serious knee injury.The 20-year-old ruptured...

Pakistan complete England whitewash

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Saeed Ajmal and Umar Gul were the chief destroyers as Pakistan won the third and final test by 71 runs on the fourth day on Monday, recording their first clean sweep in a series against England.Spinne...

Merkel presses Greece

21 min 26 sec ago
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Greece on Monday to make up its mind fast on accepting the painful terms for a new European Union (EU)/International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout, but the country's...

Air France pilots strike

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Air France cancelled around 20 percent of its flights on Monday, as pilots protested against government plans to make strikers give at least two days' notice when they planned to stop work.At airports...

Cold snap claims another 33 lives

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Europe's bitterly cold weather killed another 33 people on Monday, while melting snow caused a dam wall to break and flood an entire village in Bulgaria.Gas supplies to the European Union (EU) from Ru...

50 die in Syria violence

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Syrian forces bombarded Homs on Monday, killing 50 people in a sustained assault on several districts of the city which has become a centre of armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian...

WoF plane crashes

1 hour 43 sec ago
An aeroplane has crashed at Pearly Beach Airfield near Gansbaai in the Western Cape.The Working on Fire (WoF) aircraft crashed shorty after take off on Monday evening. Officials said the pilot surviv...

Zanu-PF supporters promised gold

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Press reports from Zimbabwe on Monday said the Defence Minister's wife promised shares of a gold to supporters if they vote Zanu-PF in the upcoming elections.Auxilia Mnangagwa allegedly made the offer...

SAA flights back to normal

1 hour 33 min ago
South African Airways (SAA) on Monday said it did not expect any flight delays to the United Kingdom (UK) for Monday evening or Tuesday.The national carrier had to cancel flights to London over the we...

Neighbour recalls mob justice attack

1 hour 42 min ago
The neighbour of a man killed in a mob justice attack in Diepsloot on Monday said he would have been beaten if he had tried to intervene. The man, who does not to be named, witnessed the attack on 32-...

Store owner arrested for copper theft

2 hours 39 min ago
The owner of an electrical store in Steenberg was arrested for allegedly selling stolen copper cables belonging to the City of Cape Town.Members of anti-metal theft unit The Copperheads and the police...

ET trial adjourned

2 hours 39 min ago
The state in the Eugene Terre’Blanche murder case on Monday called its final witness to testify in the trial within a trial.The former Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) leader was killed on his...

Woman found dead at mosque

2 hours 41 min ago
Cape Town police are investigating the death of a young Blue Downs woman after her body was found at a mosque in the area on Monday morning.An inquest docket has been opened.Janine Philander’s m...

Grant to miss opening of Super Rugby

2 hours 59 min ago
Stormers coach Allister Coetzee on Monday admitted that the fly-half position was a work in progress.The Stormers have four number 10's in Gary van Aswegen, Burton Francis, Kurt Coleman and Demetri Ca...

Postbank gang arrested

3 hours 17 min ago
At least three people were arrested after they allegedly stole R42million from Postbank.Two of the suspects are South African Post Office (SAPO) employees.The theft was reportedly executed by a cyber ...

NPA defends Breytenbach silence

3 hours 51 min ago
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Monday defended its silence on the possible suspension of top prosecutor Glynnis Breytenbach.They accused the media of publishing wild speculation and consp...