# Tennis: Australia’s Alex de Minaur cruised through to the Shanghai Masters quarterfinals, ousting Portugal’s Nuno Borges 7-5, 6-2. De Minaur is chasing his second title of the year and is, after Novak Djokovic, the highest ranked player left standing after a string of high-profile exits. France’s Arthur Rinderknech reached his first Masters 1000 quarter-final […]
# Tennis: Defending champion Aryna Sabalenka battled hard to keep her unbeaten record in the Wuhan Open intact, having to come from behind to beat Slovakia’s Rebecca Sramkova 4-6, 6-3, 6-1. Third seed Coco Gauff, a semi-finalist in Wuhan last year, booked her place in the last 16 with a smooth 6-1, 6-0 performance against […]
# German federal police will be allowed to shoot down drones, following a recent string of sightings which Berlin has blamed on Russia. Unveiling a draft law, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said police would be able to use jamming devices or take “physical measures, that is to say, intercepting and shooting down drones”. Germany was […]
# Vanjaar se Nobelprys vir Fisika is toegeken aan die Amerikaners John Clarke, Michel Devoret en John Martinis vir hulle grondverskuiwende proefnemings wat die kwantummeganiese effekte in ‘n handgrootte elektriese stroombaan demonstreer. Die bekroondes sal 18-miljoen-rand deel. Olle Eriksson van die Koninklike Sweedse Akademie van Wetenskap sê die drietal het bewys dat kwantum-tonnelering en energie-kwantisering […]
# The youth-led movement behind near-daily protests in Madagascar says “as long as the repression continues” it would not attend a meeting President Andry Rajoelina called for later today. Rajoelina has called for the public meeting at the presidential palace after earlier in the week appointing an army general as the new prime minister in […]
# Vietnam was designated an emerging market by a major index provider for the first time. This is a long-awaited upgrade that could accelerate foreign investment into one of Southeast Asia’s fastest growing economies. FTSE Russell is reclassifying Vietnam as a “secondary emerging market”, a designation that will put it in the same group with […]
# EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says Europe must ramp up its defences to deter Russia’s “hybrid warfare”, after a series of air incursions, cyber attacks and damage to undersea cables. She called it a coherent and escalating campaign against Europe, and says Europe must respond. EU countries Poland, Estonia and Romania have recently […]
# City Power het bevestig die Hooggeregshof in Johannesburg het die dringende saak teen die Valke uitgestel oor die beweerde onregmatige uitvoering van ’n deursoekings-lasbrief wat op 17 September uitgereik is. Die saak, wat oorspronklik vir vandag beplan is, sal nou Vrydag aangehoor word nadat die Valke meer tyd gevra het om hul beëdigde verklaring […]
# Die Departemente van Basiese Onderwys, en Indiensneming en Arbeid, asook die Nywerheids-ontwikkelingskorporasie sal vandag ‘n resolusie aankondig oor uitstaande betalings aan Onderwysassistente en Algemene Skoolassistente onder die Basiese Onderwys-werkprogram in Pretoria. Die woordvoerder, Terence Khala, sê die regering het ‘n manier gevind om die uitstaande toelaes vry te stel. Hy sê die stap sal […]
