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South Africa’s ruling party, surviving a wave of scandals, was clinging to its majority in early results from Wednesday’s local elections, but opposition parties were making inroads and threatening to capture key cities.

He struck out three in the ninth inning Tuesday night against Boston for his first major league save.

“I didn’t come here to get a haircut”. Rodney escaped the eighth after allowing just one run, and then that disaster happened in the ninth.

There should be a bigger crowd when hosts Brazil, led by Marta, make their bow against China at the same venue later in the day.

West Indies reached 215/5 in their second innings at lunch on the final day to raise their hopes of drawing the second Test against India at the Sabina Park here on Wednesday.

The UK government announced that UK Border Force staff would assist French border police with checks at Dover in a bid to clear the backlog.

France has been under a state of emergency since last November, when terror attacks in Paris left 130 people dead, and has tightened its border checks accordingly.

Huge queues formed on the A20, M20 and A2, the main trunk roads.

Filmmaker Christopher Nolan is in an enviable position. Warner Bros. quickly removed a few of the leaked footage from YouTube.

After complaints that just one French officer was available to check in coaches on Friday night into Saturday, port authorities said six booths – four for cars, one for coaches and one for freight traffic – were manned overnight into Sunday.

It was settled by veteran defender Nilla Fischer opening her third Olympics by scoring in the 75th minute.

Early reports from authorities suggest that the man responsible for the London stabbing spree, which killed an American woman and injured five others, has no affiliation with any terror group.

RIO DE JANEIRO Michael Phelps, the most medalled Olympian of all time, questioned on Wednesday whether he had ever swum in a “clean” sport as he prepared for a Rio Games overshadowed by the Russian doping scandal.

Fans in love with the book series Harry Potter had a new reason to celebrate Saturday night-and celebrate they did.

The bridge, constructed in the 1940s, was the older of two parallel bridges which are on a highway connecting India’s financial capital with the tourism state of Goa. The tragedy echoed in Parliament and the Maharashtra assembly where several opposition leaders, including...