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Journalist dreams & Keane reunion? How O’Neill continues to revive Celtic
Martin O’Neill continues to thrive as Celtic’s interim manager as he guides the club through to the Europa League play-off round.
FRIDAY, 30 JANUARY 2026, 03:39

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Martin O’Neill continues to thrive as Celtic’s interim manager as he guides the club through to the Europa League play-off round.

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Now Rangers are out of Europe, has the road to their domestic path been cleared?

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Last year, there was a 15% annual increase in the operations and surgeons want more research.

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How much attention did you pay to what happened in the world over the past seven days?

South Africa
KwaZulu-Natal police noted that no officer was wounded during the incident.

South Africa
City of Ekurhuleni has paid tribute to its TRT members who took part in LP and Mozambique floods

South Africa
The Free State School of Nursing welcomed almost 400 new students for training.

South Africa
Gauteng Police spokesperson Tintswalo Sibeko says the arrested suspects will appear in court soon.

World
He allegedly told jail officers that he had paperwork “signed by a judge” to free the accused killer, a complaint states.

World
Amid rusting oil pumps and rigs, once affluent Venezuelan oil towns place their hope in US investment.

World
The former PM may be silenced but he’s far from the only one under pressure as the military stifles dissent.

World
The Ming family ran scam compounds along the Chinese border with Myanmar in Shan state.

Africa
Nearly 700,000 people have been affected by weeks of severe flooding in Mozambique

Africa
No reason has been given but the decision follows a huge fall-out between South Africa and the US.

Africa
Passengers received a text message about the cancellation of flights, citing “unforeseen circumstances”.

Africa
Prosecutors allege Diezani Alison-Madueke was given “a life of luxury” in the UK by people interested in Nigerian government contracts.

Business
Cuba was previously importing about 35,000 barrels of oil a day from long-time ally Venezuela.

Business
Hundreds of miles from Denmark’s coast a project is underway to inject CO2 into an old oil field.

Business
The falls have sparked questions about whether the world’s go-to currency is losing its lustre.

Business
The government has confirmed the discount for six million low-income households will continue for the rest of the decade.

Politics
A task team has been established to implement the commission’s recommendations.

Politics
A task team has been established to implement the commission’s recommendations.

Politics
The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is set to fill vacancies across various superior courts.

Politics
The motion was brought by minority party Al Jama-ah, with the support of other minority parties.

Sport
Your guide to the teams that made the top eight, the 16 in the play-offs and the clubs eliminated from the Europa League.

Sport
Three-time world champion Michael van Gerwen is knocked out by Damon Heta on the opening night of the World Masters in Milton Keynes.

Sport
England’s Lottie Woad is one shot behind leader Nasa Hataoka after the first round of the Tournament of Champions in Florida.

Sport
Raheem Sterling’s representatives in talks with seven clubs, Tottenham and Burnley also interested in England winger, Cole Palmer out of Manchester United’s price range, plus more.
Education
An appellate court ruled that the firing of the former assistant principal of an elementary school in Mississippi in 2022 had been “arbitrary and capricious.”
Education
Harvard University has been trying to cut back how many A grades professors give. Now, 53 percent of grades are A’s, down from 60 percent.
Education
[Ghanaian Times] Award-winning Ghanaian visual artist, Mr Anthony Jefferson Hanson, has described the arts as a life-changing profession and urged Ghanaians to place greater value on it.
Education
[Ghanaian Times] The Global Media Foundation (GLOMEF) Ghana has distributed learning materials to vulnerable pupils in selected basic schools in the Ahafo Ano North Municipality of the Ashanti Region to enhance teaching and learning while easing the financial burden on parents in cocoa-growing communities.

Lifestyle
An US intel insider predicts that over 4 000 South Africans, predominately Afrikaners, could be granted refugee status each month.
Lifestyle
Media personality Nandi Madida tries her best to converse with L-Tido in Sesotho with the little vocabulary she has.

Lifestyle
Cape Town motorists already struggling with summer congestion along the Atlantic Seaboard may need extra patience in the weeks ahead…
Lifestyle

Entertainment
Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

Entertainment
South Africa’s biggest cinema chains dropped the Melania Trump documentary film like a hot potato just before its release on Friday.

Entertainment
The opening batter hit a career-best 115 off just 49 deliveries in an innings which included 10 sixes.

Entertainment
A total of R600 000 in jackpots is up for grabs tonight! Here are your winning Daily Lotto and Daily Lotto Plus results for 29 January 2026.
Science/Tech
Longtime Slashdot reader devnulljapan writes: In 2012, Canada passed anti-circumvention law Bill C-11, cut-and-pasted from the U.S. DMCA, in return for access to U.S. markets without tariffs. Trump has tariffed Canada anyway, so Cory Doctorow suggests it sounds like like a good idea to ditch Bill C-11 and turn Canada into a “Disenshittification Nation” and go into the business of...
Science/Tech
A group of Linux gaming-focused distros and developers have formed the Open Gaming Collective to pool work on shared components like kernels, input systems, and Valve tooling. The Verge reports: Universal Blue, developer of the gaming-focused Linux distribution Bazzite, announced on Wednesday that its helping to form the OGC with several other groups, which will collaborate on improvements to...
Science/Tech
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Earlier this month, Joseph Thacker’s neighbor mentioned to him that she’d preordered a couple of stuffed dinosaur toys for her children. She’d chosen the toys, called Bondus, because they offered an AI chat feature that lets children talk to the toy like a kind of machine-learning-enabled imaginary friend. But she knew Thacker, a security...

Science/Tech
Swedish study of 100,000 women found higher rate of early detection, suggesting potential to support radiologists
The use of artificial intelligence in breast cancer screening reduces the rate of a cancer diagnosis by 12% in subsequent years and leads to a higher rate of early detection, according to the first trial of its kind.
Researchers said the study was the largest to date looking at AI...

Motoring
Police Minister Firoz Cachalia revealed that the government plans to spend over R4 billion on VIP protection services for politicians.

Motoring
More and more South Africans are opting to buy pre-owned vehicles as household budgets are stretched thin.

Motoring
Lepas and iCaur have revealed the list of cars they are bringing to South Africa this year, and when we can expect to see them.
Motoring
Health
The new panel, which advises the government on research and service priorities for people with autism, includes many members who have argued that vaccines cause autism.
Health
A new study suggests that those with long-lived families probably have the best prospects of making it to a very old age.
Health
Fungal supplements are everywhere, promising happiness, energy, focus, you name it. But what they deliver is something else entirely.

Health
Symptoms to look out for include severe pain in the stomach and back which does not go away.