A statue of the Virgin Mary at a biennial exhibition of sacred art in Italy is donning a Louis Vuitton veil, newspaper Il Centro has reported.

SA is not attracting enough foreign investment to tackle high unemployment and poverty, the World Bank says, citing expensive employment as a key deterrent.

A 40-year-old man has been arrested in Nigel for alleged possession of uncut diamonds, police say.

A statue of the Virgin Mary at a biennial exhibition of sacred art in Italy is donning a Louis Vuitton veil, newspaper Il Centro has reported.

SA is not attracting enough foreign investment to tackle high unemployment and poverty, the World Bank says, citing expensive employment as a key deterrent.

A 40-year-old man has been arrested in Nigel for alleged possession of uncut diamonds, police say.

About 150 people have been killed by bad weather in Pakistan in the last week, with storms also thought to be behind a fatal plane crash.

The water supply in a Chinese city is safe after more than 3 000 barrels of toxic chemicals were washed into a river by violent floods.

A French mother has admitted to killing eight newborn babies as the shocked nation struggled to digest the latest grisly tragedy of village life in the country.

Porsche will only manufacture a diesel Porsche for global markets if US buyers could be persuaded to buy diesel cars in bigger numbers.

The sex scandal has worsened further for Max Mosley, with BMW and Mercedes-Benz distancing themselves from the embattled FIA president.

Max Mosely's Nazi re-enactments with the "hired help" should not be condoned - and Egmont Sippel suggests he be sent packing from F1.

Eurozone finance ministers have vowed to fix the regions finances after expressing concern at the plunging euro.

One local institution set to win from the countrys hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup is the SA Revenue Service.

Fast moving consumer goods services specialist CIC Holdings justified its billing as one of the JSEs top performing shares with a strong annual performance.

As soon as Apple Inc launched the iPhone 4 and its FaceTime video conference feature, adult-entertainment companies began to develop video-sex chat services.

Farmers are inundating fallow fields to provide an alternative for some birds that are beginning to make their way south after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Archaeologists have found a ship abandoned more than 150 years ago in the quest for the fabled Northwest Passage.

With just over a week to go before the season opening Telkom Charity Cup, the PSL are urging fans to go out and purchase tickets.

Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has met senior members of SARU at the request of the chairperson of the SARU technical committee.

Fans will be forced to pay up to double the last year's price to watch Premier Soccer League matches this season.

While buyers are slowly returning to the residential property market, South Africans continue to shy away from spending money on value-add upgrades to existing homes.

Violence was narrowly averted when over 300 hundred residents confronted a woman who they accused of fraudulently selling RDP houses.

The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform is now facing even more uncertainties regarding outstanding land claims.

A statue of the Virgin Mary at a biennial exhibition of sacred art in Italy is donning a Louis Vuitton veil, newspaper Il Centro has reported.

The town of Rhinebeck is receiving lots of media attention ahead of Chelsea Clinton's nuptials, despite the Clintons remaining mum on the wedding location.

Musicians in Broadway's orchestra pits are fighting a battle against synthesizers, which are threatening to replace them.

SA is falling behind the rest of the continent in education and skills development, an economist has told the World Bank.

Two men who held up a woman in her Johannesburg home during a robbery have been sentenced to 15 and 20 years in jail, police say.

A man found guilty of gunning down a Mozambican has been sentenced to 12 years in jail, Gauteng police say.

Morgan Tsvangirai says his party is struggling to deliver quick reforms in a new government, but vows that the democratisation process was irreversible.

Morgan Tsvangirai says the international community should fully engage Zimbabwe as shunning it would only bolster hardline elements opposed to a new unity government.

France's junior trade minister has praised Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai for his work in the unity government and invited him to visit France.