2014-12-26 South Africa Health

Times of India   

Sierra Leon nurses strike over Ebola hazard pay amid lockdown   
Times of India
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone: Nurses at a public hospital in northern Sierra Leone were on strike on Thursday to demand hazard pay for treating Ebola patients, as the region was under lockdown in a bid by authorities to combat the killer virus. Some 30 nurses ...

2014-12-26 South Africa Science

News Tonight Africa   

Climate change threat to mussels: study   
BioScholar News
The numbers of mussels could be threatened by climate change, as it has made oceans increasingly acidic, a team of British researchers has revealed. In a new paper published in the Royal Society's journal Interface, researchers from the University of ...

2014-12-26 South Africa Sports

The Australian   

Australia v India: live updates from the Boxing Day Test at the MCG   
The Australian
1.58pm: ANOTHER WICKET! Watson goes for the sweep shot to Ravi Ashwin, misses and is adjudged lbw, his first lbw dismissal since last season's Ashes series. Was he hit outside the line? Too close to call and since the umpire gives him out so even had ...

2014-12-26 South Africa Entertainment

TIME   

Sellout audience for Sony hack film   
Gulf Daily News
NEW YORK: The Interview, the Sony Pictures film about a fictional plot to assassinate North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, opened in more than 300 cinemas across the US on Christmas Day, drawing sellout audiences in many theatres where outspoken ...

2014-12-26 South Africa Technology

VentureBeat   

10 ways Apple will try to make a dent in the universe in 2015   
VentureBeat
Apple may be the most interesting and well-known tech company on earth, but it's also the most secretive. That, of course, is part of its seductive power. So some of us spend a lot of time trying to figure out what Apple will do next, and why. Whole web sites are ...

2014-12-26 South Africa Business

Sierra Leone Times   

South Africa awards $855 mn worth contracts for AIDS drugs   
Sierra Leone Times
JOHANNESBURG / MUMBAI - Cipla Medpro, a subsidiary of the Indian firm Cipla, Sonke Pharmaceuticals (Pty) Ltd., a joint venture of Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. of India and Pretoria-based Community Investment Holdings Ltd., Aspen Pharmacare Holdings ...

2014-12-26 South Africa South Africa

Independent Online   

Boyfriend Escapes Death For Wanting to Spend Christmas With Wife   
The Public News Hub
one woman in Soweto was locked up in a cell to await trial for attempting to shoot her boyfriend for wanting to share Christmas Day with his wife. Trouble started when the unnamed boyfriend who is apparently married to another woman in a different part of ...

2014-12-26 South Africa Africa

Sky News Australia   

Death Sentence in Mauritania for Islam 'Insult'   
New York Times
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — A court in Mauritania on Thursday sentenced a man to death for “insulting” the founder of Islam. The man, Mohamed Cheikh Ould Mkhaitir, 28, was arrested a year ago for writing an article that was interpreted by some as being ...

2014-12-26 South Africa World

The Sun Daily   

Pro-democracy protesters return to Hong Kong streets for second night, 37 ...   
The Globe and Mail
Hong Kong police say they have arrested 37 people as pro-democracy protesters return to the city's streets for a second night in a row. The police said in a statement Thursday that protesters blocked five roads overnight in the Mong Kok neighbourhood and ...