Lotteries board to probe claims of irregularities Business Day | The National Lotteries Board (NLB) said on Friday it was aware that it controlled public money and that it would consider allegations of irregularities made about its administration of funds. | Scores of people from various NGOs and charities stage...
Construction criticism casts the spotlight on intra-African trade The Guardian | The AU's Chinese-built base is not only a source of controversy but also a symbol of the challenge facing African enterprise | • Interactive: Africa's top trade groups The African Union's Addis Ababa headquarters, scene of the AU summit, are a so...
Sundance Reviews: The House I Live In, Under African Skies And Room 237 Cinema Blend If there's anything the Sundance Film Festival is particularly good at, it's showcasing American independent films that are likely to be picked up by studios, or at least be pretty good. So I forgive myself slightly for having a festival-going diet t...
Fracked-off: Gas extraction 'causes quakes' Al Jazeera | A new technique to extract lucrative hard-to-reach natural gas is causing earthquakes across Middle America, literally. | Hydraulic fracking - pounding streams of high pressure water and chemicals into rock formations to loosen gas deposits - has b...
ARTS: ‘Chameleon artist’ takes on the world Business Day | THE view from the Imiso Ceramics studio on the fourth floor of Flex-More House in Woodstock is not one you’ll find replicated on postcards from Cape Town. Sizeable windows look across an unremarkable mishmash of industrial roofs onto the working ...
Company chiefs defend capitalism at Davos forum Business Day | DAVOS — Some of the world’s top CEOs are admitting that capitalism is worsening inequalities, but they say it is better than any alternative. | The defensive salvos by chief executives kicked off talks at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss s...
State of the Union speech 2012: speech in full The Daily Telegraph President Barack Obama laid out a vision for strengthening the US economy on Tuesday in an election-year State of the Union address. Here is the speech in full: | Having run as a change candidate in 2008, President Barack Obama will now argue that ch...
Signs of New Life as U.N. Searches for a Climate Accord The New York Times | WASHINGTON — Critics and supporters alike agree that the U.N. forum for negotiating international climate change policies is an ungainly mess, its annual gatherings marked by discord, disarray and brinkmanship. Related | Times Topic: World Economic Forum (Davos) | Each year, exhausted delegates and observers return home thinking that there ...
