South African protesters demanding free university education broke windows, forced open doors and threw human excrement in an effort to disrupt the resumption of classes, a university official has said.

President Michael D Higgins is visiting three African countries over the next week.

A TWO-million-year-old creature that combined striking features of apes and humans could be the best candidate yet for the fabled “missing link”, research suggests.

SISTER Wendy Beckett is best known for her BBC television series on the history of art, which have taken her all over the world and been seen by millions.

In an impassioned appeal, Zimbabwe’s long-suffering Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai called for people to get over their obsession with his long-time enemy, President Robert Mugabe.