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South Africa on drive to modernize public transportation SABC Transport Minister, Dipuo Peters, has received the second consignment of South African engineered and Spanish built locomotives at the Cape Town harbor. A total of 70 locomotives are expected to arrive in the country over the next few years as part of the government’s program to […]

Construction begins on Johannesburg mini city Construction has started on a new Chinese financed R84 billion city in Modderfontein, Gauteng By Anna Cox JOHANNESBURG- Hope and imagination. These words are used to describe the R84 billion (US $7.26 billion) development being built in Modderfontein. Despite widespread skepticism when the project was announced last year that […]

NFL: New Atlanta Falcons stadium video fly through The Atlanta Falcons release a new video fly through of their new state-of-the-art $1.4 billion stadium. In a brand-new fly-through video of the New Atlanta Stadium, viewers are taken on a unique tour in point-of-view fashion beginning one mile above the stadium’s circular retractable roof and through […]

Nigeria: Presidential – General elections will be held on February 14, 2015 Nigerian president begins re-election campaign Goodluck Jonathan, seeking to win a second four-year term in February’s vote, holds mass rally in opposition stronghold Agence France-Presse LAGOS- Nigeria’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, formally began his campaign for re-election on Thursday, taking the fight to a […]

Brazil 2016 Olympics: Regenerating Rio de Janeiro BBC With a year-and-a-half to go until Rio de Janeiro hosts the next Olympic Games, much is being done to revitalise run-down parts of the city. The harbour is one area earmarked for a facelift, having been abandoned for decades. While the initiative has been given broad support, […]

U.S. unemployment rate declined to 5.6 percent in December 2014 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics The unemployment rate declined by 0.2 percentage point to 5.6 percent in December, and the number of unemployed persons declined by 383,000 to 8.7 million. Over the year, the unemployment rate and the number of unemployed persons were down by […]

NFL: A rendering released of a proposed new stadium for the St. Louis Rams St. Louis pitches stadium plan to keep the Rams from moving to Los Angeles The new St. Louis Rams stadium would be designed to hold 64,000 people with an initial seat distribution of: 54,020 general seats 2,000 suite seats (includes private […]

U.S. Olympic Committee selects Boston as Applicant City for 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games BY UNITED STATES OLYMPIC COMMITTEE DENVER – Boston will represent the United States in its bid for the opportunity to host the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the United States Olympic Committee announced today. The decision followed a spirited discussion and […]

First China-CELAC Forum ministerial meeting starts in Beijing Xinhua BEIJING- The first ministerial meeting of the Forum of China and the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) began in Beijing on Thursday, January 8, 2015. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Costa Rica President Luis Guillermo Solis, Ecuador President Rafael Correa Delgado, Venezuela President Nicolas […]

United Nations: Palestine will join the International Criminal Court on April 1, 2015 Edith M. Lederer Associated Press (UNITED NATIONS) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said late Tuesday that the state of Palestine will join the International Criminal Court on April 1, a high-stakes move that will enable the Palestinians to pursue war-crimes charges against […]