Pistons and Cavaliers advance in NBA play-offs
Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers will face one another in a best-of-seven series in the Eastern Conference semi-finals of the NBA play-offs.
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‘Premflix’ and tourist fans – future of football predictions
Former broadcasting executive Neil Duncanson and author Alex Fynn, who made remarkably accurate predictions about football’s future in 1994, discuss what the game will look like in 10 years’ time.
What an empty car park tells us about the UK’s debt problem
The BBC has been speaking to people living in one of England’s poorest communities.
News24 | Sasha Stevenson | Big week for NHI in court
From 5 to 7 May, the Constitutional Court will hear two of the multiple challenges to the National Health Insurance Act. Sasha Stevenson considers what will be at stake in these first, potentially landmark, cases involving the process that led to the act.
South Africa’s Nic Vani bows out of ‘BGT’ after semi-final performance judges won’t forget
The South African singer gave it everything in Saturday’s ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ semi-final. The votes didn’t go his way, but what a journey it was
Flu season | Get vaccinated as soon as possible to beat the flu virus
The fact that both the flu and RSV seasons are starting at the same time means clinicians could potentially see a high burden of patients with respiratory illness in medical facilities in the coming weeks, warns NICD spokesperson Vuyo Sabani
Samsung family pays off record $8bn inheritance tax bill
The bill is tied to the estate left by the firm’s late chairman Lee Kun-hee, who died in October 2020.
Hantavirus alert: Should South Africans be worried now?
Hantavirus concerns may rise after a cruise ship passenger is treated in Johannesburg. Learn how it spreads, its symptoms, and local risk.
Ignoring illegal immigrant crisis could lead to SA’s demise − education MEC
Gade says migrants are flooding social services at the expense of locals
Antisemitism ‘allowed to come into the open’ says Bondi victim’s daughter
Sheina Gutnick was the first person to give evidence at the royal commission investigating the attack.
News24 | Trump ally Rudy Giuliani admitted to hospital in ‘critical’ condition
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalised and is in “critical but stable condition”, his spokesperson said
News24 | Trump vows to escort ships through Strait of Hormuz as Iran rejects ‘pirate’ US plan
Iran warned that it would consider any US attempt to interfere in the Strait of Hormuz a breach of the Mideast ceasefire, as US President Donald Trump said the United States would begin escorting ships through the blocked waterway.
Wildfire tears through hundreds of acres in Arizona
Firefighters were tackling the blaze that local officials estimated to stretch 558 acres (2.3 sq km).
UK set to enter talks to join the European Union’s $105.9 billion Ukraine loan
LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) – Britain is set to enter talks to join the European Union’s 78 billion pound loan ($106 billion) to Ukraine, the government said on Sunday, in a further sign of deepening European defence ties under rising U.S. pressure.
Three cruise ship passengers die in suspected hantavirus outbreak
May 3 (Reuters) – Three people have died and three are ill after aNetherlands-based cruise ship was hit by a suspected outbreak of hantavirus, a rodent-borne virus that can cause fatal respiratory illness, authorities and media reports said on Sunday.
What is the hantavirus that has been confirmed on an Atlantic cruise ship?
While rare, the disease can be transmitted to humans through inhalation of airborne particles from dried rodent droppings.
Trump says US to ‘guide’ stranded ships through Strait of Hormuz
More than 100 aircraft and 15,000 personnel will be part of the operation due to start on Monday, the US military says.
Chris Mason: Elections this week a smorgasbord of competitiveness
The scale of these elections looks set to vividly expose the breadth of Labour’s vulnerabilities, Chris Mason writes.
Antonelli steps up his level in dramatic fashion
Kimi Antonelli’s first season in F1 showed occasional promise, but nothing that suggested this was going to come next, writes Andrew Benson.
The Papers: ‘No money for new weapons’ and ‘Cost of pint hits £10’
A lack of defence funding and surging costs of a pint of beer are prominent stories on Monday’s papers.
Rudy Giuliani in critical condition in hospital
The long-time champion of Trump and former New York mayor is in hospital, according to his spokesman.