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Bremen, Germany (dpa) – A 5,800-square-kilometre ice block has broken off from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf and is now floating northwards, a German polar research centre said Wednesday.Measuring 175 kilometres long and around 50

The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali on Wednesday reiterated the federation’s support for Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa to succeed President Jacob Zuma as leader of the African National

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s public broadcaster NHK apologized Wednesday over a cartoon with Adolf Hitler’s face that was printed on a T-shirt worn by a talk show guest.The black T-shirt worn by entrepreneur Takafumi Horie also carried a

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Ray Phiri, a South African jazz musician who founded the band Stimela and performed on Paul Simon’s Graceland tour, has died of cancer at the age of 70.Phiri’s death on Wednesday was met with tributes from

Two Port Elizabeth gangsters have been given lengthy jail sentences in two separate cases that concluded in the city's courts this week.Police spokesperson, Colonel Priscilla Naidu, says 25-year-old gang affiliate, Denzil Hall, was jailed on

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities say an officer and a skater were injured in a collision as police broke up an informal skateboarding competition Tuesday in San Francisco.The San Francisco Chronicle reports that hundreds of participants and

A 31-year-old gardener has been sentenced to life for the murder of his elderly woman employer in Welkom in the Free State, police said on Wednesday.Police spokesperson, Captain Stephen Thakeng, said that on 6 October 2015, Bloemfontein resident

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The battle over now-famous selfie photographs taken by a macaque monkey will head back to federal court.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco on Wednesday will hear arguments on whether an animal

Legendary South African musician Ray Phiri has died.Seventy-year-old Phiri died in a Nelspruit hospital after a battle with cancer.Phiri was born in Mpumulanga on 23 March, 1947.In the 1970's he became the founding member of the Cannibals and