Pope Benedict XVI has rebuked Irish bishops for "grave errors of judgement" in handling clerical sex abuse and ordered a Vatican investigation.

The Bulls will create history if they qualify for the Super 14 semifinals and finals this year by playing in Orlando Stadium.

Two people were injured when their truck ploughed into a wall fencing of a house in Vereeniging.

A university student was allegedly raped by the driver of the taxi she boarded to her home in Butterworth, Eastern Cape police have said.

Police say they have made an arrest in the case of a racial comment being made over the public-address system at a Walmart store.

Australian authorities have approved an order forcing people to evacuate their homes as a tropical cyclone bore down on the Great Barrier Reef.

Fifteen people have been injured when their taxi overturned after a tyre burst on the N2 near the Kwamashu highway.