Rugby World Cup: Springboks prepared to face ‘best team ever’

South Africa will have to produce their best ever performance if they are to defeat heavily-favoured New Zealand in their Rugby World Cup semi-final on Saturday (24 October). The Springboks come up against a high-flying All Blacks side, fresh from humiliating France in their 62-13 victory in the quarter finals. Oct 21, 2015

Germany: Thousands attend Pegida anniversary anti-Islam rally

Thousands of people took to the streets of Dresden on Monday evening (19 October) for a rally marking the one-year anniversary of anti-Islam group Pegida (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West). Demonstrators gathered in front of the citys cathedral waving German flags and banners criticising the German governments policy on refugees. Oct 20, 2015