A professional boxer's foot was cut by fragments of marble when Oscar Pistorius inadvertently fired a gun in to the floor of a Johannesburg restaurant, and then asked his friend to take the blame. Kevin Lerena told the North Gauteng High Court how he had ...
Sat alone in the dock of the North Gauteng High Court, Oscar Pistorius put his head in his hands as the court heard of the brain damage that would have been inflicted on his late girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, when the bullet hit. The Olympic sprinter, who has ...
Karl Lagerfeld staged his autumn/winter 2014 Chanel collection in a recreation of a supermarket. The shelves were stocked with faux Chanel-branded products - everything from “Jambon Cambon†ham, to camellia-festooned rubber gloves. Lagerfeld went for ...
In 1940, Hattie McDaniel became the first black American to win an Oscar, for her performance as Mammy, the kindly house slave of Gone With The Wind, where slavery is seen from the point of view of white slave owners. Almost 75 years later, British ...
Reeva Steenkamp's mother June came to the North Gauteng High Court to “really look in the eye†the man she has never met, and who shot and killed her daughter. But Oscar Pistorius afforded her no such opportunity, when he made his entrance at around ...
"To err is human; to forgive, divine", said the English poet Alexander Pope. Words that may be of some comfort to his namesake (sort of) Pope Francis after he accidentally used some distinctly unholy language during a Papal address to thousands in St Peter's ...
Continuing to hide his youth elixir from the world, Jared Leto has debuted another stunning look at the 2014 Oscars, which didn't look unlike that of the Messiah himself. Leto won the award for Best Supporting Actor at last night's Los Angeles ceremony, ...
12 Years A Slave, Steve McQueen 's searing adaptation of the memoirs of Solomon Northup, a free man sold into slavery, has been declared best film at the 86th Academy Awards. Favourite for the prize, the historical drama triumphed over Gravity, American ...
More so than at any other time in his remarkable life, South Africa's double-amputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius will find himself in the full glare of the public spotlight this morning. Outside the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, the world's media are ...
The Government said tonight it would not move to freeze any of the UK assets of the Yanukovych regime until its European Union partners all agreed, despite the fact that EU member Austria, together with Switzerland and Lichtenstein, took action yesterday.
It's not just citizens that are worried about being spied on by their governments – governments don't much fancy being snooped on either. To this end, American aerospace and defence contractor Boeing has announced that they will start offering a specialized ...
Manchester United's woeful 2-0 defeat at Olympiakos in the Champions League on Wednesday marked another painful record in a season of painful records for David Moyes - it was the first time ever in a European competition that United lost to a Greek team.
Although it's certainly become increasingly difficult for manufacturers to improve smartphones much further, Samsung have certainly given it their best shot with their new flagship device, the Galaxy S5. Although the S5 may not offer a dramatic overhaul of ...
The sun may have been shining yesterday as Yoweri Museveni signed the Anti Homosexuality Bill, but it was a dark day. The legislation, first introduced in 2009, threatens lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Ugandans with life imprisonment for having sex ...
Never let it be said that the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is one to overhype a crisis. Asked about the National Security Agency's spying scandal, which has hit Internet firms with widespread fears among users about being snooped on, he responded: ...
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni signed a bill criminalising homosexuality on Monday. He said the law was needed to stop what he described as the West's “social imperialism†promoting homosexuality in Africa. During the singing at his official residence ...
Smartphones are complex, immensely capable devices. So much so that it's sometimes difficult to see where the next innovation will come from – it's like they've plateaued. So after Sony built in waterproofing and made the leap to a highly capable ...
It's Robert Mugabe's 90th birthday today. The president is hailed as a revolutionary hero by some of Zimbabwe while the West considers him a tyrant, guilty of corruption and widespread human rights abuses. It is not surprising that a man who polarises ...
What's happening in Ukraine? Ukraine is facing the most serious political crisis in its history. The Euromaidan protests started last November after President Victor Yanukovych abruptly announced that Ukraine will be postponing signing the Association ...
When Oscar Pistorius was granted bail in February 2013 shock was expressed from many quarters, resulting in allegations in the media that Pistorius received special treatment due to his celebrity status. This sense of public consternation seemed to heighten ...
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