The Dalai Lama, who has twice since 2009 been denied a visa for South Africa, is not planning to attend his fellow Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela’s funeral, his spokesman said Sunday. “He has no plans to go,” spokesman Tenzin Takhla told AFP in the northern…
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Maria Sharapova described her comeback after a four-month injury absence as a ‘baby step’ forward in her recovery. The four-time major winner took on 2008 French Open champion Ana Ivanovic in an exhibition match in Bogota as she tests the injured shoulder…
Vine, the 6-second video app that has exploded in popularity since its launch earlier this year is a great app for iOS and Android, but one place that is missing out on Vine is the web. Currently there is no official Vine web version, so one frustrated…
Brazil’s organisational reputation, already under fire in the run-up to the World Cup, suffered another blow Sunday when three spectators were seriously hurt in violent clashes at a league match. Police said that fans of Atletico Paranaense and Vasco…
A visit to Israel by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte Sunday was marred by a dispute over a new security scanner on the Gaza border, an Israeli official said. Rutte was to have inaugurated the scanner on the frontier with the Palestinian Islamist-ruled…
Emmanuel Riviere scored his eighth goal of the season to give Monaco a 1-0 win over 10-man Ajaccio on Sunday and cut the gap on Ligue 1 leaders Paris Saint-Germain to two points. Riviere struck in the 75th minute as Monaco replaced Lille, who had lost…
The funeral service of Nelson Mandela could be a “trap” for Iranian President Hassan Rouhani because he could run into US President Barack Obama, a hardline Iranian daily warned Sunday. The Islamic republic has yet to announce who will travel to South…
South Africans of all races and religions united in an outpouring of prayer and song for their beloved Nelson Mandela on Sunday, hearing calls to keep his dream of a Rainbow Nation alive. Churches, mosques, temples and synagogues across the country…
Three people were arrested on Sunday following fresh allegations of match-fixing in English football, authorities announced. Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said it had acted on information passed on by the Sun on Sunday tabloid. The paper said…
There’s an undeniable sense of unease and lack of trust on the Internet these days, ever since the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program came to light earlier this year. To some, the idea that the government could or would be monitoring what we thought…
Fifty-three heads of state and government have so far confirmed attendance at upcoming memorial events for peace icon Nelson Mandela, South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said Sunday. The dignitaries will include US President Barack…
Anti-Muslim insults were found on the walls of a mosque in northern Israel on Sunday, a police spokeswoman said. “Insults against Islam… were found on Sunday morning on the walls of a mosque in Baqa al-Gharbiyeh,” she said. The spokeswoman also said…
Economy Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday proposed that Israel annex parts of the West Bank under its full military control where most Jewish settlers live. “I favour implementation of Israeli sovereignty over the zone where 400,000 (settlers) live…
Facebook has been involved with video for a long while, but the social network isn’t necessarily known for it. Desktop videos often go up on YouTube and mobile videos tend to find homes on either Vine or Instagram. But a change quietly rolled out…
Napoli dropped two precious points in the Italian title race on Saturday after Dujan Basta levelled late on for Udinese to grab a share of the spoils from a 3-3 draw. Rafael Benitez’s men started their 15th match of the campaign looking to build on…
Real Madrid badly missed the firepower of Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale as they were held 0-0 away to third tier Olimpic Xativa in the first-leg of their Copa del Rey fourth round tie on Saturday. With Ronaldo suspended following his red card in…
France on Saturday committed itself to helping establish and finance a pan-African military force capable of intervening in crises like the current conflict in the Central African Republic. A two-day summit attended by leaders of all but a handful of…
US President Barack Obama warned Saturday that an “ideal” agreement to eliminate “every nut and bolt” of Iran’s nuclear program was not a realistic goal. But he argued that the best possible available agreement with Tehran was likely to be better than…
Hosts South Africa went undefeated on the first day of the IRB’s Nelson Mandela Bay Sevens on Saturday, but England failed to make the cut for the Cup quarter-finals. Also ending day one with a 100 percent record were current series leaders New Zealand…
Ten-man Tanzania beat Uganda 3-2 on penalties to knock the defending champions out of the CECAFA Senior Challenge Cup in Mombasa on Saturday. The champions fought back from a 2-1 half time deficit for a 2-2 draw at regulation time in the first of two…