2014-12-18 South Africa Health

Financial Times   

Signs of hope in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone   
Financial Times
An IRC worker has his shoes sprayed with chlorine to prevent the spread of Ebola. Bo hospital Ebola isolation unit, Sierra Leone. Laura Miller was sent to Sierra Leone in 2011 with a mission to help improve public health in a country still recovering from its ...

2014-12-18 South Africa Science

Comicbook.com   

Hawking, 'an imprisoned mind roaming the cosmos'   
BDlive
British scientist Stephen Hawking, seen here with actor Eddie Redmayne, enjoys the limelight at the London premiere of the latest film about his life, The Theory of Everything, this week. Picture: AFP PHOTO/JUSTIN TALLIS. COSMIC superhero Stephen ...

2014-12-18 South Africa Sports

Sport24   

SA: Stiaan sits ... and sits   
Sport24
Cape Town – Proteas debutant Stiaan van Zyl desperately seldom bats outside of a top five. So there seemed certain pluses to the initially very strong likelihood that, from his designated role at No 6 in the South African side, he would get to the crease pretty ...

2014-12-18 South Africa Entertainment

Telegraph.co.uk   

Hollywood incredulous over Sony's 'unAmerican act of cowardice'   
Telegraph.co.uk
Hollywood has reacted with incredulity over the decision by Sony to cancel the release of its controversial film The Interview, criticising the studio for bowing to the demands of North Korean hackers. Sony Pictures Entertainment announced the movie would ...

2014-12-18 South Africa Technology

Technology Personalized   

With Skype, technology to be India's link language?   
Economic Times
One of the most debilitating things for us Indians is that beyond using Hindi, and to a lesser extent English, to get by with our fellow countrymen with whom we don't share a mother tongue, we don't get to dip into each other's regional cultures. Far too few ...

2014-12-18 South Africa Business

BDlive   

PPC names Castle as new CEO to replace Gordhan   
BDlive
PPC HAS replaced former CEO Ketso Gordhan with experienced mining executive Darryll Castle less than three months after the former's sudden resignation. Mr Castle was appointed as an independent nonexecutive director of the cement company in ...

2014-12-18 South Africa South Africa

Eyewitness News   

Sars battle heads to Labour Court   
Eyewitness News
Ivan Pillay and Peter Richer are legally challenging their suspensions in the Labour Court today. Finance minister Pravin Gordhan delivered SARS' provisional revenue collection figures for the 2013/2014. FILE: Ivan Pillay and Peter Richer are legally ...

2014-12-18 South Africa Africa

teleSUR English   

Nigerian Soldiers Get Death Penalty for Mutiny and 'Cowardice'   
teleSUR English
The special forces troops allegedly refused to retake some towns in northern Nigeria which are strongholds of the militant Islamist Boko Haram group. Fifty-four soldiers of the Nigerian army could be executed in the upcoming months because they refused to ...

2014-12-18 South Africa World

The Globe and Mail   

Cuba deal throws Obama foreign policy beliefs into sharp relief   
Washington Post
It took six years and months of secret negotiations, but on Wednesday President Obama finally delivered on a pledge that cuts to the heart of his foreign policy. It's a view of the world that emphasizes pragmatism over ideology, engaging enemies rather than ...