A second firefighter has been killed in Canada as the country battles its worst season of wildfires on record.

The demolition on Friday of a 300-year-old minaret of a mosque in Iraq’s southern city of Basra to make way for road expansion has enraged locals, religious and cultural authorities who condemned it as a further erosion of Iraq’s cultural heritage.

Two South African aspiring designers, Khumo Morojele and Klein Muis, spend hours at a second-hand street market in Johannesburg looking for fashion items.

Properties that provide accommodation in Fiji operated at an 87 percent occupancy rate last month, indicating a positive trend in the sector.

Hundreds of homes have been destroyed by a fire in a poor neighbourhood of the South African port city of Durban.

The trial of former Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama and suspended Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho started in the Suva Magistrates Court this morning.

Fiji Water Flying Fijians lanky lock Isoa Nasilasila says he has been working extra hard during training in a bid to make the starting match day team against Tonga in the Punjas Pacific Battle this weekend.

On mountain slopes in the Swiss village of Villars-sur-Ollon, an artist has used chalk and charcoal.

Engineers Fiji is concerned with the lack of quality graduates from local tertiary institutions.

Defending Skipper Cup champions Nadi will need to be better next week when they face FMF Suva.

All postponed Digicel Fiji Premier League games will have to be played before the Rooster Chicken/Scoop Premier Ice Cream Battle of the Giants starts.

The Ministry of Trade is prepared to defend Fiji’s trade policies at the World Trade Organization meeting in Geneva, Switzerland this week.