The community of an informal settlement on Gauteng's East Rand has lost so much trust in the police that they have decided to take the law into their own hands when they catch alleged criminals in the area.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, under pressure to overturn rules barring travel from Covid-19-ravaged India, said on Tuesday it was “highly unlikely” travellers would face maximum penalties of five years jail and a A$66,000 ($51,000) fi...

Declaring Lubbock a “sanctuary city” for the unborn, voters have approved a local ban on almost all abortions, and the Texas legislature is considering a law to bar the procedure as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

Congo will replace civilian authorities with military administrations in two conflict-hit provinces for a month, the government said on Monday, announcing the details of a state of siege to address worsening bloodshed in the east.

A child died after falling into a canal outside Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape at the weekend.

Metrobus said on Tuesday an ongoing strike had left only its Roodepoort depot operational.

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Twenty people were killed, including children, and 49 were hospitalised when a railway overpass collapsed onto a busy road in Mexico City on Monday night.

US President Joe Biden said on Monday he has resurrected a plan to raise refugee admissions this year to 62,500 after drawing a wave of criticism from supporters for initially keeping the refugee cap at a historically low level.

The French prosecutor's department said on Monday that there were no grounds to pursue legal claims that France bore responsibility for enabling the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

"Melinda Gates you better testify ko Zondo Commission, we are waiting," wrote one tweep.

Performing medical examinations on patients for the first time is probably one of the most nerve-wracking experiences for medical students, due to their inexperience and fear of making mistakes.

The Hawks have arrested a Western Cape man who has been on the run since January for alleged credit card fraud.

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The song was inspired by minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who shared concerns about people sharing 'zol' at the height of the lockdown.

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Half of South Africans gained weight during the Covid-19 pandemic, with 69% of them now bordering on obese, according to a survey of 2,000 adults.

Bill Gates and Melinda Gates said on Monday that they have decided to divorce, unnerving the philanthropic world.

The government is on "high alert" for the Covid-19 variant currently circulating in India, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Monday.

A 47-year-old female teacher from Tshefoge Primary school in the North West is in critical condition after being stabbed at school on Monday, allegedly by another teacher.

Taliban insurgents attacked an army outpost in Afghanistan's southwestern Farah province killing at least seven soldiers, local officials said on Monday, as the country braces for violence after May 1, a previously agreed deadline for foreign troop w...

Armed assailants killed around 30 people in an attack on a village in eastern Burkina Faso on Monday, four security sources said.

Colombia's defense minister on Monday blamed illegal armed groups for looting and vandalism during five days of street protests but would not confirm how many demonstrators have died.

India's daily Covid-19 shots have fallen sharply from an all-time high reached early last month as domestic companies struggle to boost supplies and imports are limited, even as the country fights the world's worst surge in infections.

Morocco has detected its first two cases of the Indian variant of the coronavirus whose contacts have been isolated to avoid contagion, the health ministry said on Monday.

The World Health Organisation is seeking to fill the gap left in the COVAX dose-sharing programme by India suspending exports of AstraZeneca doses and is in talks with donors including the United States, senior WHO officials said on Monday.

The US Senate Judiciary Committee chair is pressing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to explain how it failed to anticipate the violence of Jan. 6, despite having contact with several members of the far right Proud Boys in the months before the in...

Prominent Asian-American business leaders launched a $250 million initiative on Monday to support an array of Asian American and Pacific Islander causes, vowing to create a national infrastructure for a community that has faced an increasing number o...

Peru's presidential election race is tightening a month ahead of a run-off vote in June, with socialist Pedro Castillo still ahead, while pollsters say the key battles are in poor, rural regions and in convincing a large group of undecided voters.