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New Zealand beat South Africa to win Women’s T20 Cricket World Cup final – as it happened
Amelia Kerr defies cramp and South Africa to inspire New Zealand to their first T20 World Cup trophy. Here come the umpires, here come the teams for the anthems, hand in hand with the children ...World - The Guardian - October 20 -
New Zealand win T20 World Cup after Melie Kerr’s heroics stun South Africa
New Zealand 158-5; South Africa 126-9 – NZ win by 32 runs Kerr scored 43 and took three key wickets in final success New Zealand secured a maiden T20 World Cup title, defeating South Africa by ...World - The Guardian - October 20 -
New Zealand wins cricket's Women’s T20 World Cup for 1st time with 32-run victory over South Africa
New Zealand has won the Women’s T20 World Cup for the first timeSports - ABC News - October 20 -
Idris Elba plans to move to Africa to boost film industry in Ghana, Tanzania and beyond
Idris Elba sets his sights on Africa, planning to move there in the next decade to build studios in Ghana and Tanzania and 'bolster the film industry' there.Entertainment - Los Angeles Times - October 23 -
‘People didn’t believe Africa could be a source of innovation’: how the continent holds the key to future drug research
Prof Kelly Chibale says the world is failing to take advantage of African genetic diversity, and everyone could be losing out. Africa has the greatest variety in human genes anywhere on the planet ...World - The Guardian - October 28 -
South Africa submits its main legal claim to the top UN court which accuses Israel of genocide
South Africa has delivered a nearly 5,000-page document to the United Nations’ top courtWorld - ABC News - October 28 -
Prince William walks nature trails near South Africa's Table Mountain to promote conservation
Prince William has gone on an early-morning nature walk near South Africa’s Table Mountain to promote the work of conservation rangers in a unique urban national parkWorld - ABC News - Yesterday -
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Nigeria’s army chief, who led country through one of Africa's longest conflicts, dies
Nigeria’s army chief, Lt. Gen. Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, who led soldiers through a critical period in the fight against Islamic extremists in the West African nation’s hard-hit northeast, has died ...World - ABC News - 9 hours ago -
UK identifies 4 cases of new mpox variant, the first cluster outside Africa
British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged in Congo, marking the first time the variant has caused a cluster of ...Health - ABC News - 1 hour ago -
UK identifies 4 cases of new mpox variant, the 1st cluster outside Africa
British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, more infectious version of mpox that first emerged in Congo, marking the first time the variant has caused a cluster of ...World - ABC News - 1 hour ago -
Former Stasi officer jailed for 10 years over 1974 Berlin border shooting
Martin Naumann, 80, shot Czesław Kukuczka in the back at close range as he tried to cross into West Berlin. A former officer in the East German secret police has been sentenced to 10 years in jail ...World - The Guardian - October 14 -
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Middle East crisis live: Israeli attacks on UN forces in Lebanon must stop, say UK, Italy, France and Germany
Benjamin Netanyahu claims Israeli military did its utmost to avoid harming Unifil personnel while striking Hezbollah fighters. More now on the Hezbollah strike on an IDF training base we reported ...World - The Guardian - October 14 -
Former officer with East Germany’s secret police sentenced to prison for a border killing in 1974
An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany’s secret police, the Stasi, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish man at a border crossing in divided Berlin ...World - ABC News - October 14 -
Residents blame Mexican army, National Guard for the deaths of nurse and 8-year-old
Human rights activists in the violent Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, across from Laredo, Texas, are blaming the army and National Guard troops in the deaths of a nurse and an 8-year-old girlWorld - ABC News - October 14
