Two million Muslim pilgrims begin annual hajj
Some two million pilgrims poured out of the Muslim holy city of Mecca on Sunday to begin the annual hajj, their numbers reduced on fears of the deadly MERS virus.…
Panty Dropper At Funeral
Members of BMW clubs across South Africa came in numbers to the funeral of skilled spinner, Bongani Makhubo (40) of Soshanguve, Tshwane. As the cars spun around in circles, spectators…
North Korea warns of ‘all-out war,’ condemns ‘nuclear blackmail’
North Korea on Saturday issued a fresh warning of an "all-out war," urging the United States to stop military drills and what it described as "nuclear blackmail." In a thinly…
Diana: A tepid telling of the Princess Diana tale
The story of the late Queen of Hearts and Princess of Wales, Diana, has been an open book and the expectation from this tale is colossal. Unfortunately, director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s…
Panic as Russia mistakenly reports 55 deaths from ‘toxic gas’
Russians in Siberia were thrown into momentary panic on Friday when the emergencies ministry mistakenly issued a press release reporting 55 people had died from inhaling toxic chlorine gas. Emergency…
Video of police shoot driver outside US Capitol after chase
A woman driving a black Infiniti with a young child inside tried to ram through a White House barricade Thursday, then led police on a chase toward the Capitol, where…
Puppy love: man marries his dog
A YOUNG Toowoomba man yesterday tied the knot with his best friend - a five-year-old labrador. In perhaps a first for the Garden City, Laurel Bank Park hosted the wedding…
Insidious: Chapter 2 – not an exact science
When we last left the Lamberts, the family whose eldest son Dalton (Ty Simpkins) had been trapped in a comalike state in Insidious, the boy had awakened from his supernatural…
Thai woman jailed for five years for insulting royals
A Thai court on Wednesday sentenced a woman to five years in jail for breaching the kingdom's strict royal defamation laws in the the second such conviction in days. Under…
