Japan Executes Man Convicted of Killing 7 People in 2008 Stabbing Rampage

Read More This illustration shows Tomohiro Kato (R), who killed seven people in a stabbing spree in Tokyo’s neon-lit electronics district of Akihabara in 2008, sitting in the dock at the Tokyo District Court on March 24, 2011. (STR/AFP via Getty Images) Japan has executed a man convicted of killing seven people in a 2008 […]

Morad Tahbaz has been freed from jail in Iran on electronic tag, UK says

Read More Morad Tahbaz, the British-Iranian man held in a Tehran prison, has been released on an electronic tag, the UK Foreign Office has confirmed. He had been due to be released on a tag at the same time as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were allowed to return to the UK in March, but […]

McDonald’s UK raises price of cheeseburger for first time in 14 years

Read More McDonald’s has announced a supersized price increase, putting up the price of a cheeseburger by a fifth to ?1.19 with immediate effect. The chain blamed its first cheeseburger price hike in 14 years on soaring costs and said other big price increases were on the horizon. The chief executive of McDonald’s UK and […]

Earthquake in the Philippines kills at least 4, injures dozens

A 7-magnitude earthquake in the northern region of the Philippines early Wednesday morning has left at least four people dead and dozens more injured. The earthquake created small landslides and damaged buildings. The quake was centered in the mountainous area of the Abra province, according to the head of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and […]

‘Tunisia Days’ ahead as inflation exerts political pressure

Read More In the space of three weeks, as many world leaders have quit. First, scandal-prone Boris Johnson was forced off a ledge by his colleagues in the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party. A week later Sri Lanka’s Gotabaya Rajapaksa threw in the towel after having to flee anti-government protesters. And, most recently, Mario Draghi resigned […]

Here’s to Wine Wednesdays!

Read More As a Joburger, I find time out in Stellenbosch quite a treat. Oak trees line streets flanked by sky piercing mountains of the Jonkershoek and Simonsberg ranges, the silhouettes of which are reflected in the lines of the Cape Dutch architecture. Art galleries. And wine. Glorious wine, in an almost unlimited array of […]

PODCAST | ANC national spokesperson Pule Mabe on the step-aside rule

Read More Use the player below to listen & subscribe in your favourite podcast app The contentious step aside rule has become a bone of contention for the ANC with growing rebuke by provinces of its implementation by national leaders. Some of the ANC’s biggest provinces including KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Limpopo have already resolved that […]