# Defending champions Liverpool will begin their title defense of the Premier league at home at Anfield, facing off against Bournemouth. Liverpool’s side will include the 2,3-billion-rand signing of midfielder Florian Wirtz and new forward Hugo Ekitike, among a handful of new recruits. They are favourites to retain their crown but the unknown factor is […]
# A London-based biotech company, BioOrbit, is exploring the possibilities of having cancer fighting drugs made in space – where gravity does not interfere with the process of turning drugs into proper crystals. These crystals can then be injected by patients themselves at home, cutting out the need to go to hospital and spending hours […]
# Air Canada and its flight attendants remained at odds despite government pleas for both sides to return to the negotiating table to avert a strike. It could upend travel for tens of thousands of passengers. Canada’s largest airline expects to cancel 500 flights by the end of the day ahead of tomorrow’s planned strike, […]
# Rugby: The two South African teams are all set for their final matches of the Under 18 International Series in Paarl tomorrow. The coaches made several changes to give more players a chance to play at a higher level. Tomorrow’s action gets underway at 11:30 when the SA Under 18 ‘A’ side takes on […]
# The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organisations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favour of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size. The map created for navigation, distorts continent sizes, enlarging areas near the poles like North America and Greenland while shrinking […]
# Germany called on the Israeli government to stop the construction of settlements in the West Bank. This comes as Israel’s far-right Finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said work would start on a plan for thousands of homes that would divide the Palestinian territory. Germany’s Foreign Ministry says in a statement it rejects the Israeli government’s […]
# Atletiek: Die Amerikaanse Olimpiese medaljewenner, Fred Kerley, is voorlopig geskors omdat hy na bewering opkikkertoetse misgeloop het. Volgens die kode van die Wêreldagentskap teen Opkikkergebruik mag ʼn atleet nie meer as drie opkikkertoetse in 12-maande misloop nie. Kerley se regspan sê hy gaan die bewering betwis omdat een of meer van die vermeende oortredings […]
# Die 14-malige Grammy-wenner, Taylor Swift, het bewonderaars verras met die nuus dat sy haar 12de ateljee-album, The Life of a Showgirl, gaan vrystel. Die 35-jarige sangeres het in April verlede jaar ʼn ateljee-album, The Tortured Poets Department, vrygestel wat die beste verkoper van die jaar was. Sy het haar Eras-toer wat rekords laat spat […]
# Die Wes-Kaapse Hooggeregshof hoor die volgende twee dae aansoeke aan om verlof tot appèl teen die skuldigbevinding en lewenslange vonnisse in die Joslin Smith-saak. Kelly Smith, Jacquen Appollis en Steveno van Rhyn is in Mei tot lewenslange tronkstraf gevonnis vir mensehandel en tien jaar vir ontvoering. Hulle saak hou verband met die verdwyning van […]
