Новости за 21.05.2018

New York - Celebrity chef Mario Batali is under investigation for an alleged sexual assault dating back to 2005, police said on Monday, as a report emerged of an inquiry into a second assault accusation against him in 2004.

CAPE TOWN – Western Province Rugby Union president Thelo Wakefield has confirmed that vice-president Gerald Njengele will appeal his four-year suspension following an alleged racial incident.

Los Angeles - Former US President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, have struck a deal to produce films and series for Netflix Inc, the streaming service said on Monday, giving the former first couple a powerful and unprecedented platform to shape their post-White House legacy.

Washinton - An "alien asteroid" that circles the sun in the giant gas planet Jupiter's orbital path, but hurtling in the opposite direction, is the first-known permanent resident of our solar system that astronomers have concluded originated in another star system.

INTERNATIONAL - German cities are entitled to ban older diesel vehicles from streets with immediate effect to bring air pollution levels in line with EU rules, Germany’s top administrative court confirmed on Friday.

A day after the European Commission lodged a complaint with Europe’s top court against Germany for its repeated failure to protect air quality in its cities, the details of the German ruling will add to pressure on Volks- wagen and its German peers to provide hardware fixes for polluting diesel models. Читать дальше...

LONDON – Arsenal are set to appoint former Paris St Germain coach Unai Emery as their new manager to succeed Arsene Wenger, the BBC reported on Monday.

Durban - KwaZulu-Natal has a new acting police commissioner while the disciplinary process into suspended commissioner, Lieutenant-General Mmamonnye Ngobeni, drags into its second year.

JOHANNESBURG - Former US President Barack Obama's foundation has elected the chief executive of Johannesburg digital innovation hub, Tshimologong Precinct as a member of the inaugural class of its Africa leadership programme.

LONDON – Brazilian forward Neymar is an “artist” and Paris St Germain need to build their team around the 26-year-old if they are to get the best out of him, the Ligue 1 club's new manager Thomas Tuchel has said.

The Dwesa-Cwebe communities, the first Eastern Cape beneficiaries of the land restitution process, are still waiting for the land to be signed over.

Ashwin Willemse has made his first comment since walking off a live SuperSport broadcast on Saturday night, saying that the issues that led to his dramatic exit “are very profound”.

LIVERPOOL – Liverpool defender Dejan Lovren is ready for the challenge of stopping Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo in Saturday's Champions League final but says that task will have to be a team effort.

Santa Fe, Texas - She stood at her bedroom door for five minutes Saturday morning trying to work up the courage to turn the knob and re-enter a world she worried would never feel safe or whole again. Then she crept down the hallway, toward the front porch where she stood the morning before to watch police cars screaming down the highway toward the high school, and imagined she'd never forget the screech of their sirens.

JOHANNESBURG - “I just want to be heard!” wails the marketing director (who shall remain anonymous due to his or her extreme thespian abilities).

BLOEMFONTEIN – While Free State Stars' short-term future is looking a lot rosier, provincial rivals Bloemfontein Celtic could be sold off to the highest bidder.

BUENOS AIRES – Mauro Icardi, the joint top goalscorer in Italy's Serie A this season, was left out of Argentina's World Cup squad on Monday as coach Jorge Sampaoli named his 23 players for next month's tournament in Russia.

Bujumbura - Voters in Burundi approved a referendum on term limits that could allow President Pierre Nkurunziza to stay in power until 2034, the electoral commission said Monday. 

Geneva  - An immunization campaign to stem the Ebola outbreak in Congo started on Monday, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in Geneva.

Cape Town - The South African government has identified rural and township economies as vehicles for achieving Radical Economic Transformation, Trade and Industry Deputy Minister Bulelani Magwanishe said on Monday.

Volvo Group Southern Africa said it was planning to invest more than R20 million on apprenticeship training.

CAPE TOWN – Multichoice South Africa chief executive Calvo Mawela says that Monday’s meeting between Ashwin Willemse, Nick Mallett and Naas Botha was courteous, and that there “is no racism that we picked up from any of the discussions that we have had”.

Johannesburg - Fourteen candidates from eight political parties will go head-to-head in KwaZulu-Natal, Gauteng and North West by-elections this week.

INTERNATIONAL - Since Google revealed a robo-caller that sounds eerily human earlier this month, the company has faced plenty of questions about how it works. Employees got some answers this week.

JOHANNESBURG – The axing of Trisha Chetty, one of just two players to earn more than 100 ODI caps for the Proteas Women, from the squad to tour England is next month, is the direct result about concerns with the team’s batting, selection convenor Clinton du Preez acknowledged on Monday.

Authorities have warned people to avoid white plumes of acid and extremely fine shards of glass caused by lava from the Kilauea volcano.