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Wigan brush aside Castleford in Super League
Liam Marshall and Ryan Hampshire score two tries each as Wigan sweep past Castleford to keep pace at the top of Super League.
FRIDAY, 19 APRIL 2024, 23:35
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Liam Marshall and Ryan Hampshire score two tries each as Wigan sweep past Castleford to keep pace at the top of Super League.
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The United States says it was warned in advance of the Israeli drone strike on Iran.
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Police arrested over 100 pro-Palestine protesters gathered at Columbia University’s campus in New York
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Azerbaijan had demanded the return of the four villages as a condition for a peace deal after decades of conflict.
South Africa
Residents are frustrated and worried they may spend the weekend without electricity,
South Africa
Three suspects have been arrested by police in connection with the murders of Rand Water executive.
South Africa
Mashatile says government intends to provide internet connection to more households.
South Africa
Minister Dr Phaahla announced that his department has found a solution to the current difficulty.
World
Arch-foes Israel and Iran are firing missiles at each other. But the unprecedented attacks on each other’s territory appear — for now — not to have sparked an all-out war.
World
A man set himself on fire Friday outside the court where Donald Trump is standing trial in Manhattan, with officers rushing to extinguish the flames.
World
Israel and Iran have been trading attacks on each other for a week including, for the first time, attacks on each other’s territory. Will Israel’s latest retaliation be the end of this wave of hostilities, or will Iranian response bring the long-standing enemies closer to all-out war? We hear from NPR’s national security correspondent and our correspondent in Israel. For more coverage of all...
World
The H5N1 bird flu virus strain has been detected in very high concentrations in raw milk from infected animals, the WHO said Friday, though how long the virus can survive in milk is unknown.
Africa
The train rammed into a lorry parked along the Tema-Mpakadan railway line, damaging its cabin area.
Africa
Gen Francis Ogolla was in the west of the country when his helicopter went down killing 10.
Africa
Sprinter Christine Mboma says an enforced hiatus impacted her mental health but she did not lose hope of a return.
Africa
A selection of the week’s best photos from across the continent and beyond.
Business
Japan is seeing if artificial intelligence can tackle its increasing shortfall of workers.
Business
Euribor underpins trillions of euros in loans and tracks the rate banks pay to borrow cash from each other.
Business
An overview of the biggest business developments in SA and beyond.
Business
A 4-bedroom house is for sale in an incredibly popular area of Plettenberg Bay, where properties are rarely on the market.
Politics
Ramaphosa says government is working flat out to address the water crisis in some parts of KZN.
Politics
Minister Thandi Modise has received a request from Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula for legal assistance.
Politics
Steenhuisen made the comments in Springs today.
Politics
Ramaphosa says the governing party has the upper hand in the province.
Sport
Mary Cholhok scores 65 goals as Loughborough Lightning beat Saracens Mavericks to keep pressure on Netball Super League leaders Manchester Thunder.
Sport
Ulster escape with a vital 19-17 URC victory over Cardiff thanks to John Cooney’s last-minute penalty.
Sport
St Helens make up for their Challenge Cup quarter-final exit as they run away with a Super League win against Hull FC.
Sport
Glasgow Warriors keep their United Rugby Championship play-off hopes on track with victory over the Sharks at Scotstoun.
Education
Protesters into seventh day of hunger strike in support of Palestinians and in effort to demand university divestment
A group of students at Yale University were on Friday into the seventh day of a hunger strike in support of Palestinians in Gaza and in a protest to pressure the university to divest from any weapons manufacturing companies potentially supplying the Israeli military.
The group...
Education
Labour also turns down European Commission’s proposal, which would allow young Britons to live, study and work in EU
Rishi Sunak has rejected an EU offer to strike a post-Brexit deal to allow young Britons to live, study or work in the bloc for up to four years.
The prime minister declined the European Commission’s surprise proposal of a youth mobility scheme for people aged between 18 and 30...
Education
[The Herald] The liberation war was fought and Independence won in 1980 but some subversive elements continue to undermine the gains of the struggle.
Education
David McCormick has often spoken about his modest upbringing on a farm in Pennsylvania. A close look at his past tells a different story.
Lifestyle
Virgin Active SA announced it would allow transgender members to choose a change room according to their ‘gender identity’.
Lifestyle
GBV activists Women For Change have backed author Melinda Ferguson’s new book about Anele Tembe and the circumstances around her death.
Lifestyle
New #RHODurban additions Ameigh Thompson and Zama Ngcobo have taken their on-screen feud off the reality TV series.
Lifestyle
Amapiano King, Kabza De Small took to social media to announce the new Scorpion Kings album amid fallout rumours with DJ Maphorisa.
Entertainment
Entertainment
The feud between RHODurban stars Zama Ngcobo and Ameigh Thompson has spilled over from the small screen onto social media platforms.
Entertainment
President Ya Straata’s new single Pressure is aptly titled because it highlights the attitude of overcoming constraints to perform at your best as artists and athletes.
Entertainment
Science/Tech
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Atlantic: In October 2003, Mark Zuckerberg created his first viral site: not Facebook, but FaceMash. Then a college freshman, he hacked into Harvard’s online dorm directories, gathered a massive collection of students’ headshots, and used them to create a website on which Harvard students could rate classmates by their attractiveness, literally and...
Science/Tech
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Biden administration is designating two “forever chemicals,” man-made compounds that are linked to serious health risks, as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, shifting responsibility for their cleanup to polluters from taxpayers. The new rule announced on Friday empowers the government to force the many companies that manufacture or use...
Science/Tech
Linus Torvalds, discussing the AI hype, in a conversation with Dirk Hohndel, Verizon’s Head of the Open Source Program Office: Torvalds snarked, “It’s hilarious to watch. Maybe I’ll be replaced by an AI model!” As for Hohndel, he thinks most AI today is “autocorrect on steroids.” Torvalds summed up his attitude as, “Let’s wait 10 years and see where it actually goes before we make all these...
Science/Tech
Microsoft Research Asia earlier this week unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track. ArsTechnica: In the future, it could power virtual avatars that render locally and don’t require video feeds — or allow anyone with similar tools to take a photo of a person found online and make them...
Motoring
Motoring
Motoring
KTM rider Brad Binder reveals that having mates over in abundance affords him the luxury of overseeing things.
Motoring
Health
Among those with substance use disorders who have been referred to child welfare, less than half received medication or counseling.
Health
Mammography can miss tumors in women with dense breasts, so their doctors often include ultrasound or M.R.I. scans. Patients often wind up paying the bill.
Health
As record heat enveloped the nation, the rate of emergency room visits increased compared with the previous five years, a sign of the major health risks of high temperatures.
Health
The change followed a sweeping review by England’s National Health Service that found “remarkably weak” evidence for youth gender treatments.
Nature
Sustainable Energy Africa is helping municipalities across the country build their capacity to register rooftop solar PV.
Nature
Corporate climate lobbying is recognised globally as a threat to effective climate change policy, the private and public sectors in SA do not perceive closed-door engagements to be problematic, write Caroline James and Emma Schuster.
Nature
Industry stakeholders requested guidelines be put in place for up to Stage 16 of load shedding in order to reduce the risk of human error in an emergency situation, says Vally Padayachee.
Nature
While battery electric vehicles have dominated the transition conversation in transport, it’s looking increasingly likely that other technologies will also have a role to play.