YouTube lifts Swazi bare-breasted dancer restrictions
Image copyright AFP Image caption The famous reed dance is an annual cultural event held in Swaziland featuring bare-breasted women YouTube has lifted restrictions from videos showing Swaziland's reed dance, which feature bare-breasted women.A spokesperson for the video-sharing platform told
Japanese zoo mourns anime-loving celebrity penguin
Image copyright Tobu Zoo Image caption Grape (L) and Hululu (R): A match made in heaven A celebrity penguin, which made international headlines after forming an attachment to a cardboard cut-out in a Japanese zoo, has died at the age
Microwave breakthrough helps boost hard drive sizes
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Web giants and large firms rely on cheap hard drives to store information in data centres The data-storing abilities of hard drives could soon swell to 40 terabytes (TB) and beyond, says Western Digital.Currently the
EU Spain: Juncker does not want Catalonian independence
Image copyright AFP Image caption Mr Juncker says he does not want an EU of some 90 states European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said he does not back Catalan independence, fearing others may follow the same path.Mr Juncker, speaking
Italy school students ‘strike’ over work experience
Image copyright EPA Image caption Rome: The banner says students are rebelling to change schools Thousands of Italian school students are protesting nationwide over work placements which they say contribute little to their future job prospects.The students are calling it
WeChat translates ‘black foreigner’ into racial slur
Image copyright Reuters Image caption WeChat is one of China's most popular apps Chinese messaging app WeChat has apologised after its software used the N-word as an English translation for the Chinese for "black foreigner".The company blamed its algorithms for
SA President Zuma must face corruption charges, court rules
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Jacob Zuma has always denied the allegations linked to a government arms deal South Africa's President Jacob Zuma must face charges of corruption, fraud, racketeering and money laundering, the Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled.It
Icelandic Pirate Party MP forced to wear eyepatch
Image copyright Eva Pandora Baldursdottir Image caption Avast ye! Eva Pandora Baldursdottir sports an eyepatch following an eye injury A member of parliament from the Pirate Party in Iceland was forced to wear an eyepatch for a television appearance following
Harvey Weinstein: US actress Rose McGowan makes rape allegation
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Harvey Weinstein and Rose McGowan appeared at a premiere for the film Grindhouse in 2007 The scandal deluging Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has deepened after US actress Rose McGowan publicly accused him of raping
Australia skydiving: Three dead after ‘mid-air collision’
Three skydivers have died in Queensland after they apparently collided mid-air, say Australian authorities.Paramedics and police were called to Mission Beach, a popular skydiving spot about 140km (87 miles) south of Cairns.Two men in their 30s, and a woman in