# Soccer: Coach Nuno Espirito Santo says the last five games of Nottingham Forest’s Premier League campaign are the biggest of their careers as they battle to secure a Champions League spot for next season. Forest are within touching distance for the first time in more than four decades. Liverpool are already champions and second-placed […]
# Tennis: Defending champion Iga Swiatek reached her fifth WTA 1000 quarter-final of the season with a 6-0, 6-7, 6-4 victory over 13th-seeded Diana Shnaider at the Madrid Open. On the men’s side, sixth-seeded Alex de Minaur defeated Canadian Denis Shapovalov 6-3, 7-6. American 11th seed Tommy Paul overcame Russian 24th seed Karen Khachanov 6-3, […]
# France wants to start charging non-EU online sellers a handling fee for each low-value package, as the country copes with an influx of cheap goods from China. Such a fee would help cover the cost of checking small packages ordered by EU consumers via platforms such as Chinese-founded firms Temu and Shein. In 2024, […]
# Soccer: Barcelona star Lamine Yamal said he is focussed on being himself and not on comparisons to Lionel Messi, ahead of the Champions League semi-final clash against Inter Milan today. The 17-year-old star has become a key figure on the right flank, where Barca’s all-time top goalscorer Messi operated for many years, with both […]
# Cycling: The Giro d’Italia will pay tribute to the late Pope Francis during the final stage of this year’s race. For the first time in its history, as announced before the Pope’s passing on 21 April, the Giro will ride through the Vatican on 1 June. The 108th edition of the Giro, one of […]
# Polisiewoordvoerder Athlenda Mathe het bevestig dat ’n vyfde liggaam uit die Hennopsrivier herwin is. Dit volg op die herwinning van drie liggame wat vermoedelik vermiste polisielede van die Vrystaat is wat verlede Woensdag verdwyn het. ‘n Vierde liggaam is vandag gevind. Sy sê die identiteite bly onbekend, en ondersoeke is aan die gang om […]
# Minister van Openbare Werke en Infrastruktuur, Dean Macpherson, het die Noord-Gautengse Hooggeregshof se afwysing van ’n interdik om vyf trustee-aanstellings by die Onafhanklike Ontwikkelingstrust te blokkeer, verwelkom. Die hof het die aansoekers se gedrag veroordeel en ’n bestraffende kostebevel gelewer. Macpherson sê die uitspraak is ’n oorwinning vir eerlike bestuur en bevestig pogings om […]
# Die Departement van Water en Sanitasie het bevestig dat tien sluise van die Vaaldam oop bly, met watervloei van een-duisend-700-en-sewentig-kubieke meter per sekonde, terwyl die Bloemhofdam vloei van drie-duisend-600-kubieke meter per sekonde handhaaf. Die Vaaldam is steeds 119-persent vol en Bloemhofdam is op 117-persent. Die departement sê ondanks die afname in invloei, voorsien die […]
# Algerië sê Israel se verbod op die Verenigde Nasies se agentskap vir Palestynse vlugtelinge, UNRWA, is ’n aanval op die hede en toekoms van die Palestynse volk. By die Internasionale Geregshof in Den Haag het Maya Sahli Fadel van Algerië gesê dié optrede skend internasionale reg en bevorder dubbele standaarde wat die beginsels van […]
