World champions South Africa on Monday put off naming the team to play Six Nations Grand Slam holders Ireland this Saturday in Dublin because of an injury crisis which forced them to cancel training.

Herschelle Gibbs has been recalled to the South Africa squad for the remainder of the one-day series against England.

Herschelle Gibbs has been recalled as cover for injured allrounder Jacques Kallis for the remainder of South Africa's limited-overs international series against England. Kallis is expected to be sidelined for a month with a rib injury, discovered after a scan at the weekend. Kallis missed the seven-wicket loss to England at Centurion on Sunday, which put the hosts behind 1-0 in the five-match...

Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50 percent within the next two decades, according to a new study led by a team of researchers at University of California, Berkeley, and published in today's (Monday, Nov.

South Africa add batsman Herschelle Gibbs to their one-day squad as they seek to gain a foothold in the series against England.

Nov. 23 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index gained for the first day in four, advancing 313.22, or 1.2 percent, to 27,242.47 at 1:12 p.m. in Johannesburg.

DUBLIN -World champions South Africa on Monday put off naming the team to play Six Nations Grand Slam holders Ireland this Saturday in Dublin because of an injury crisis which forced them to cancel training. Read more...

There were several moments during the summer when it was clear the Ashes would be won not necessarily by the better team, but by the team less inclined to stuff it up. The evidence so far in South Africa suggests a repeat performance.

( University of California - Berkeley ) Using historical data on the relationship between temperature and conflict in Africa, researchers at UC Berkeley, Stanford, New York University and Harvard have estimated the effect of rising temperatures due to global warming. They concluded that the incidence of African civil war could increase 55 percent by 2030, resulting in an additional 390,000 ...

Some 218 million people in Africa struggle with hunger daily – about 30 percent of the continent’s total population, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Most of those suffering from hunger are the rural poor, urban poor and victims of natural disasters.