Supporters demand sainthood for Benedict as Pope Francis leads funeral
PHILIP PULLELLA and CRISPIAN BALMER POPE Francis led the funeral of former Pope Benedict, tenderly touching the coffin of his
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Tens of thousands view body of former Pope Benedict
PHILIP PULLELLA A steady stream of tens of thousands of people filed into St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their respects
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14 die in landslide tragedy in Cameroon capital
A landslide in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde killed at least 14 people who were attending a funeral, the governor of the
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World bids farewell to Queen Elizabeth from cafes, consulates
IN Hong Kong, hundreds kept up with Queen Elizabeth’s funeral on their phones as they queued for hours to pay
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Thousands of Russians bid farewell to last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
ANDREW OSBORN and FILIPP LEBEDEV THGOUSANDS of Russians filed past the open casket of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of
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Tokollo Tshabalala: supremely gifted, flawed “Heavyweight Tiger”…the “N0.1 Tsotsi van Kofifi” who was the ‘T’ in TKZEE, and made the game sparkle with his own “Shoeshine & Piano”
AGIZA HLONGWANE TOKOLLO “Magesh” TSHABALALA, who sadly passed away on Monday, was an influential kwaito lyrical genius who was never
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South Africa mourns the 21 victims of tavern tragedy
JOHNNIE ISAAC SOUTH African mourners gathered in the coastal city of East London to grieve the still-mysterious deaths of 21
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Israeli police beat mourners at funeral of slain Palestinian journalist
ISRAELI police officers charged at Palestinian mourners carrying the coffin of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh before thousands led
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Kenya bids farewell to national hero Kibaki
KENYANS from all walks of life have bid farewell to former President Mwaki Kibaki who passed away recently after a
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Farewell to ‘our national conscience’ at funeral of South Africa’s Tutu
WENDELL ROELF PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa lauded the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “our moral compass and national conscience” as South
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