Simba and Mufasa reigned supreme this weekend as Disney’s The Lion King dominated box office charts. Director Jon Favreau’s remake of the animated classic collected a massive $185-million from 4,756 North American theatres during its first three days of release. In yet another win for Disney, the movie landed the best domestic launch for a PG film and set a […]
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Janet Jackson, 50 Cent and Chris Brown were among artists who performed at a concert in Saudi Arabia that rapper Nicki Minaj pulled out of citing human rights concerns. A cheering crowd danced to the thumping music at Jeddah World Fest, hosted in the Red Sea city of western Saudi Arabia. Such scenes, unimaginable just […]
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Volvo is recalling 507,000 cars worldwide after an investigation discovered a fault engine component which could cause the vehicles to catch fire. The Swedish carmaker, which was bought by the Chinese group Geely in 2010, issued the recall on Monday. More than 69,000 cars in the UK are affected. Volvo said it was contacting all […]
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It’s going to be another cold week thanks to a fairly strong cold front that’s expected to hit Cape Town on Tuesday. The chill will spread to other provinces, including Gauteng, which will see a slight drop in temperatures. The South African Weather Service’s Edward Engelbrecht said that Gauteng can expect colder mornings over the […]
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Britain’s Prince George turned six on Monday with his parents releasing pictures of their grinning eldest son wearing an England soccer shirt to mark the occasion. The birth of George, the third-in-line to the throne and the oldest of Prince William and wife Kate’s three children, caused a media frenzy in 2013. In two photos […]
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Global heat maps of extreme poverty show Africa in deep red. And the problem will only accelerate as population on the continent grows in coming decades. “The problems are very real and are large,” newly installed World Bank President David Malpass told AFP in an interview. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank have had […]
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It is the only nonprofit initiative in SA that pays historical debt for students. Statistics from the United Nations Educational Scientific Cultural Organisation (Unesco) have revealed that only 23% of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (Stem) talent is female, which is something a South African crowdfunding startup is working toward changing. The UN’s findings have been […]
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The top Democrat on the US House judiciary committee said on Sunday he believes there is “substantial evidence” that President Donald Trump committed high crimes and misdemeanours, and he plans to ask former special counsel Robert Mueller to present those facts at a congressional hearing on Wednesday. “The report presents very substantial evidence that the […]
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday “strongly” condemned recent attacks by cattle raiders on three villages in the country’s northwest that officials said killed 37 people. He offered commiserations to the survivors and vowed a firm response to “these brutal and remorseless enemies of humanity”. “These frequent and large scale killings of poor villagers by […]
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Millions of mobile phone subscribers and businesses were left stranded as power cuts in Zimbabwe had their biggest mass effect at the weekend. Econet Wireless – with a subscriber base of at least 10 million people and with control of 90% of mobile money transfers – failed to power its generators on Saturday during 14 […]
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