CAPE TOWN - Next year's World Cup will help South Africa promote its tourism industry in new markets, especially in the Americas where the nation has little presence, organising chief Danny Jordaan said Tuesday. Qualifying nations like Mexico and H
GENEVA - Iran is preventing dissident writer Emaddedin Baghi from leaving the country to collect an international human rights prize, the organisers said Monday. Baghi, an Iranian campaigner against the death penalty, is the first laureate in the 1
KABUL - UN chief Ban Ki-moon flew into Kabul on Monday to meet President Hamid Karzai over the Afghan election crisis with organisers to announce whether or not to scrap the poll after the only challenger pulled out. The surprise visit from Ban acc
MADRID - More than one million people took to the streets of Madrid Saturday to condemn plans by the socialist government to liberalise the abortion laws in the overwhelmingly Catholic country, organisers said. In a fiesta atmosphere and under warm
Open organisers say they are happy with the size of crowds at Turnberry - despite making £3m less than at last year's event at Royal Birkdale.The 123,000 fans at the Ayrshire course for the week was still 8,500 more than when it last staged th
MADRID - A man was gored to death by a bull on Friday during the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in northern Spain, which attracts tourists from across the world, organisers said. The San Fermin organisation said on its website that
MADRID - A man was gored to death by a bull during the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in northern Spain, which attracts tourists from across the world, organisers said. He is dead. He had been hit by a horn that punctured a lung, a
JOHANNESBURG, July 2 - World Cup organisers willmeet trade union officials to try to ensure a strike next weekdoes not delay completion of stadiums beyond target. About 50,000 workers from South Africa's biggest workersorganisation, the National Un
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