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A French priest who spent 40 years as a missionary in Africa was shot dead during a burglary at his residence in a shantytown outside Johannesburg, police and church officials said on Tuesday.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Mumias Sugar Co. Ltd, a Kenyan grower and processor of the sweetener, is looking for companies to help it build an ethanol distillery plant in the East African nation, according to a company advertisement in the Standard newspaper today.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The following is a list of companies whose shares may have unusual price changes in South Africa . Stock symbols are in parentheses after company names and prices are from the last close.
Charlotte (Aitken) Whalen of Quincy, a retired teller, died Saturday at Colonial Nursing Home in Weymouth. She was 84. Born in Boston, Mrs. Whalen was a resident of Quincy. ...
Using her finger on the computer's touch pad, Taylor Radtke scrolled through a dizzying array of black-and-white photographs of her brain.
What do you get when the past crystallizes out of the future? According to a new model of the universe that combines relativity and quantum mechanics, the answer is: the present.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) --Blue Financial Services Ltd. is seeking to enter the Egyptian market and is in talks with potential partners in that country, Business Report said, citing Morne Reinders, corporate affairs executive at the Pretoria, South Africa-based company.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa should nationalize gold and platinum mines first, Julius Malema, the president of the African National Congress Youth League, told students at a meeting in Durban yesterday, the South African Press Association reported.
It was quite a successful weekend for a number of the area’s players at the prestigious select Germantown Invitational in Memphis, Tennessee.The tournament was established in 1978 and annually features over 450 teams from over 30 different states for its four weekends of play. Games take place at the Mike Rose Soccer Complex.
Applications for World Cup tickets have surged following the draw for next year's event with almost 222,000 made in the 48 hours since the last phase of sales opened, FIFA said on Monday.
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The yen may extend its advance versus all of its major counterparts after a reduction in Greece’s debt rating by Fitch Ratings and a Dubai developer’s $3.65 billion loss discouraged demand for riskier assets.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar advanced to a one-month high against the euro as a reduction in Greece’s debt rating by Fitch Ratings and a Dubai developer’s $3.65 billion loss discouraged demand for riskier assets.
Aside from Morgan Freeman, who makes a fabulous Nelson Mandela, there's this to savor about Invictus , a rosy tale of racial reconciliation neatly wrapped in a triumphalist sports movie: The film is blessedly free of Obama parallels. Also, we could use a happy global moment, and Eastwood pi...
"In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row…" Mayor John McCrae, MD Those words begin one of the most memorable war poems ever written. It is a lasting legacy of the terrible battle in the Ypres salient in the spring of 1915. Here is the story of the making of that poem.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The dollar advanced to a one-month high against the euro as credit-rating companies highlighted the size of government deficits, discouraging demand for riskier assets including stocks.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Netcare Ltd. said it may use the initial public offering of its General Healthcare Group Ltd. unit on the London Stock Exchange to raise capital and make acquisitions outside its South African home market.
The biggest shows of 2009 couldn't always be contained by the TV screen. There were breakout tabloid scandals with Jon and Kate Gosselin. A wannabe reality TV star crashed the White House. David Letterman's hanky-panky seized headlines. Oprah Winfrey grabbed the nation's attention as she began her long goodbye. This was TV run amok.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The rand is likely to gain almost 7 percent by the middle of next year as a global economic recovery boosts investor appetite for higher-yielding assets and spurs demand for commodities, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch said.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The yen rose against all of its major counterparts as credit-rating companies highlighted the size of government deficits, discouraging demand for riskier assets.
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Exxaro Resources Ltd. halted funding for a coal mine in South Africa and Anglo American Plc said it may have to slow development of the fuel because of delays in developing power plants by state-run utility Eskom Holdings Ltd.
Rockwell Diamonds Inc. announces the appointment of Hans Gastrow as Operations Manager - Processing and Recovery Plant to oversee and optimize its diamond processing and recovery plants, and Johan Oosthuizen as Financial Manager responsible for financial oversight and planning at the Company's operations near Kimberley in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa.
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