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JOHANNESBURG, March 3 (ANA) – The African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) has dismissed the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) claim that the debacle over the payment of pensions and grants “smells of

JOHANNESBURG, March 2 (ANA) – At least five people were confirmed injured when a section of the roof at Charlotte Maxeke Academic Hospital, in Parktown, Johannesburg, collapsed on Thursday afternoon while construction work to repair leaks was

A little mouse made for a big delay on a British Airways flight from London to San Francisco.The passengers were all buckled up and ready to go when the crew told them that a mouse-spotting meant they couldn’t take off.The crew joked that the

A Georgia judge sentenced two people to lengthy prison terms for their role in the disruption of a black child’s birthday party with Confederate flags, racial slurs and armed threats.Jose Ismael Torres, 26, will spend 13 years in prison; Kayla

A British songwriter and guitarist is claiming that rock band U2 and lead singer Bono stole one of his songs for their 1991 album “Achtung Baby.”In a lawsuit filed Monday in Manhattan federal court, Paul Rose says U2 lifted elements of

The accounting firm responsible for the integrity of the Academy Awards said Monday that its staffers did not move quickly enough to correct the mistaken announcement of the best picture winner.PwC, formerly Price Waterhouse Coopers, wrote in a

“Moonlight” has won best picture at the Academy Awards in a historic Oscar upset that followed Warren Beatty first reading the wrong winner.Shock and chaos spread through the Dolby Theatre when producers of “La La Land” were

Bao Bao the giant panda began her journey to China on Tuesday, departing the National Zoo in Washington as scheduledafter a sentimental farewell that lasted days.The 3-year-old giant panda left the zoo Tuesday morning and boarded a FedEx plane bound

All five people aboard a small charter plane were killed Tuesday when it crashed into a shopping centre near Essendon Airport in the Australian city of Melbourne, officials said.“There were five on the aircraft and it looks like no-one has