An Eastern Cape emergency medical services employee has been served with a suspension letter by the health department after police said he was caught driving an ambulance while drunk.

Cape Town police have arrested three suspects in their fight to rid the Western Cape of a business extortion scourge.

A protest by beachgoers in Muizenberg, Cape Town, against the lockdown regulations has been met with mixed reactions on social media.

England's health service said it expected later on Monday to have offered the Covid-19 vaccine to residents at every care home with older residents in the nation, in what British Prime Minister Boris Johnson called "a crucial milestone".

From derelict buildings and illegal dumping mushrooming all over to potholes not being fixed and livestock roaming freely, the state of Nelson Mandela Bay is fast deteriorating.

Australia's Covid-19 inoculation programme will cost at least A$6.3 billion ($4.8 billion), Prime Minister Scott Morrison plans to say on Monday.

Life is Strange co-founder Hervé Bonin’s new studio Nameless XIII has announced its debut game, a non-linear, narrative-based survival sim through a desolate wasteland in which the real problem to solve is you and your bad decisions.

The SA Weather Service has issued an “orange” warning of disruptive rainfall in Mpumalanga and Limpopo on Monday and Tuesday.

Mystery has shrouded the murder of a Soweto taxi owner who was shot multiple times while after he had bought fat cakes for breakfast.

A vehicle spinning incident quickly turned sour in Durban after a driver sent his friend torpedoing through the air when he knocked him over.

E-hailing platform Bolt has launched a women-only service that enables female passengers to request rides from female drivers only.

South African tournament organizer Raving Mad Gamerz is hosting a local Apex Legends league for 2021, which teams can enter and compete in starting next month.

Israel extended a national lockdown on Sunday as coronavirus variants offset its vaccination drive and officials predicted a delay in a turnaround from the health and economic crisis.

Japan is expected to extend a state of emergency on Tuesday to fight the spread of Covid-19 for Tokyo and other areas, three sources with knowledge of the legal procedures said on Monday.

In a video shared on social media, a convoy of ambulances, paramedics, doctors and nurses can be seen driving in honour of their fallen colleagues.

Chicago Public Schools on Sunday delayed the resumption of in-person classes for thousands of elementary and middle school students by at least a day as the district and teachers failed to reach an agreement on a Covid-19 safety plan.

A World Health Organization-led team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic was due on Monday to visit the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of Hubei province, the central Chinese region where the outbreak emerged in late 2019.

Ten moderate Republican US senators urged President Joe Biden on Sunday to significantly downsize his sweeping $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package to win bipartisan support as Democrats in Congress prepared to push ahead with his plan this week.

The head of the European Commission rejected suggestions that Europe was in a race to vaccinate its population against the coronavirus faster than other countries, saying that it was important to cooperate at this stage of the pandemic.

A baby was found dumped in a black plastic bag in bushes in Port Elizabeth on Sunday afternoon, police said.

Limpopo police are searching for a mob who stoned a 43-year-old man to death and set him alight in a village outside Tzaneen on Sunday.

Hundreds of people were arrested in Gauteng at the weekend for contravention of the Disaster Management Act, provincial police said.

President Cyril Ramaphosa and his deputy David Mabuza will on Monday receive SA's first tranche of Covid-19 vaccines.

Algeria said on Sunday it had discussed with Russia the possibility of producing Moscow's Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had administered 31,123,299 doses of Covid-19 vaccines in the country as of Sunday morning and distributed 49,933,250 doses.

Protesters said the festive season is over and beaches will not be crowded.

Myanmar's powerful military chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, is in the spotlight after politicians from the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party were detained and the army announced it was taking power.

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Rescue services have recovered the body of a five-year-old girl after she drowned in the Umvoti River in KwaZulu-Natal at the weekend.

Basic education deputy minister Reginah Mhaule and Limpopo education MEC Polly Boshielo will conduct oversight visits in four schools in Limpopo on Monday.