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Five people have been killed by a storm in Cape Town that South African media dubbed “the mother of all storms”. Schools and universities have had to shut, roofs were blown off and shelters have been opened for those left destitute. The storm comes at the end of the region’s worst drought in a century. The BBC’s Mo Allie in ...

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo is the highest-paid sportsperson for the second successive year, Forbes’ annual list of the world’s wealthiest athletes shows. Portugal captain Ronaldo topped the influential business magazine’s list for the first time 12 months ago. The Euro 2016 winner earned $93m (£72.05m) from salary, bonuses and endorsements last year. The 32-year-old saw his earnings rise $5m ...

A Burmese military aircraft reportedly carrying more than 100 people has gone missing, officials say. The army said the plane was flying between the southern city of Myeik and Yangon (Rangoon). Search and rescue efforts are under way. “Communication was lost suddenly at about 1:35 pm [07:05 GMT] when it reached about 20 miles west of Dawei town,” the army ...

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he is nominating Christopher A. Wray, a former United States Department of Justice official, to serve as FBI director. If the Senate confirms the nomination, Wray will replace James Comey, whom the president fired on May 9. “I will be nominating Christopher A. Wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be the new Director of ...

Shortly after Muhammad Ali died last June, a story surfaced about his estranged son, Muhammad Ali Jr., living in poverty in Chicago’s South Side. Although a subsequent report claimed that Ali Jr. received his portion of the $80 million inheritance that the late boxing great and global sports icon left to his children and widow, the 45-year-old claims that he ...

The first attempts to bring people back from the dead are slated to start this year. Bioquark, a Philadelphia-based company, announced in late 2016 that they believe brain death is not ‘irreversible’. And now, CEO Ira Pastor has revealed they will soon be testing an unprecedented stem cell method on patients in an unidentified country in Latin America, confirming the ...

Former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan and founder of the Ashesi University, Patrick Awuah have been listed among the 100 most reputable people on earth for the year 2017. The South African research-based, Global Performance-Management Consulting Company conducted the research on individuals across the globe who have amassed high reputation for themselves through works they have been engaged in. The ...

Theresa May has said she will change human rights laws if they “get in the way” of tackling terror suspects. The PM said she would make it easier to deport foreign terror suspects and “restrict the freedom and movements” of those that presented a threat. Labour said ministers must stand up for “democratic values” while the Lib Dems said the ...

South Africa has fallen into recession for the first time in eight years after economic growth shrank by 0.7% between January and March. The downturn, due to weak manufacturing and trade, follows a 0.3% fall in GDP in the final quarter last year. It is the first time that economic has slowed for two consecutive quarters – the technical definition ...

US President Donald Trump has claimed credit for the pressure being placed on Qatar by Gulf neighbours who accuse it of supporting terrorism in the region. He said his recent visit to Saudi Arabia was “already paying off” and the development might mark the “beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism”. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Yemen, Libya’s ...