Miners at South Africa’s Lonmin-run platinum mine in Marikana are beginning to return to work after a strike in which 44 people were killed, many by police. Al Jazeera’s Tania Page, reporting from Rustenburg near Marikana in the North West province, said on Monday the miners were returning to work to heed the new deadline issued by management. [...]
Seventeen civilians have been beheaded by Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, government officials say. The bodies of two women and 15 men were found by the side of a road in the Musa Qala district of Helmand province. Meanwhile, 10 Afghan army soldiers have been killed in a Taliban attack in the same province. In [...]
On this lazy August weekend, who went to the movies? People who don’t like the President of the United States. Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables 2 may have repeated as box-office champ, becoming the first R-rated picture to do so since Sly’s first Expendables chapter two summers ago, but the biggest noise was made by Dinesh [...]
Republican presidential hope Mitt Romney hit back on the issue of healthcare on Sunday, defending his record as state governor while attempting to use the president’s own words against him in a new attack ad. In a growing indication that both campaign teams are seeking to make the running on the issue, Romney said he [...]
Heavy rain and strong wind from Tropical Storm Isaac pounded parts of south Florida on Sunday, but the threat to the state lessened as forecasters said the storm would move west of its originally predicted path. Isaac, which should strengthen into a hurricane in the next day or two, is expected now to strike further [...]
Britain said on Sunday it remained committed to reaching a diplomatic solution to the presence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in Ecuador’s London embassy, after both countries took steps to defuse a row over his action in taking refuge there. Assange has been living in the embassy’s cramped quarters for more than two months since [...]
Shares of Samsung Electronics have suffered their biggest fall in a single day, in almost four years, after a US jury found the technology giant copied designs from Apple. The South Korean company’s shares fell 7% in Seoul trading, the most since October 2008. The company was ordered to pay $1.05bn (£665m) in damages to [...]
Former Republican Florida governor Charlie Crist, writing in Sunday’s Tampa Bay Times, endorsed President Obama, calling him “the right leader for our state and the nation.” Crist lost a bid for the Senate two years ago to tea party favorite Marco Rubio in a bitter battle that divided the state’s Republican Party. The moderate Republican [...]
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India Under-19s celebrate their World Cup triumph at the Tony Ireland Stadium in Townsville on Sunday. Indian next generation of cricketers sealed the Under-19 Cricket World Cup-2012 stunning hosts Australia by six wickets in the final match on Sunday. Indian opener Unmukt Chand cracked an unbeaten century of 111 off 130 balls as Indian young [...]