A cave painting on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, believed to be the world's oldest, is decaying at a rapid pace because of salt erosion likely caused by climate change, archaeologists have warned.

Scammers allegedly used face-exchange technology to superimpose his face on a graphic video.

Teams across the country have been competing for years to be the first to engineer functional human tissue in a lab.

A microscopic organism has wriggled back to life and reproduced asexually after lying frozen in the vast permafrost lands of northeastern Siberia for 24,000 years.

India began an inoculation drive for its 1.38 billion people in earnest in mid-January.

More than 350,000 people in Ethiopia's Tigray are suffering famine conditions, with millions more at risk, according to an analysis by United Nations agencies and aid groups that blamed conflict for the worst catastrophic food crisis in a decade.

Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday that the health minister was preparing a measure to no longer require face masks for people who have been vaccinated for the coronavirus or previously infected.

The wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, Emma Coronel Aispuro, on Thursday pleaded guilty in a US federal court to helping her husband run the Sinaloa cartel, charges that could lead to more than a decade in prison.

The agreement, confirmed by justice minister Ronald Lamola on Friday, paves the way for the Gupta brothers to face corruption charges in SA.

"It sounded like she was at the climax of her speech and Eskom be like 'not today sweets, not today'," joked one Twitter user.

In the video, news anchor Kirtley introduced Kamwendo and gave the viewers a brief of the story to follow, but, like Namibian broadcaster Kaimu, Kamwendo put her colleague in her place, live on air.

It was the innocence in their eyes, the glowing smiles and knowing their tummies are full when they go to bed at night. This was the driving force behind Victor Mpofu’s decision to help SA Harvest feed hungry children around Gauteng.

Three family members have been gunned down at a home in the Eastern Cape.

It was the hardest slap Cyril Ramaphosa had ever given a minister – and it was to his loyal lieutenant, Gwede Mantashe. Ramaphosa's announcement about private power generation is also an indication that he has lost his patience with the general fee...

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The Lesotho government has confirmed "several" of its SA-based diplomats had been expelled from the country for "illicit trade in duty-free alcohol".

The figures from the past seven days, according to the NICD, mean the third wave of the infections has officially hit the country.

There were 8,881 Covid-19 cases recorded on Wednesday across SA, with Gauteng accounting for 5,111 of them — 58% of the total.

There has been a shift in car hijacking trends in SA, crime and violence analyst Dr Chris de Kock said during a webinar on Thursday.

Wearing a crown of cowry shells and traditional regalia, Hillary Mwatsuma intoned a prayer to the ancestors who have been laid to rest in Kaya Kauma, one of 45 sacred forested villages scattered along Kenya's southern coast, since the 16th century.

Zimbabwe’s high court on Thursday backed chief justice Luke Malaba’s right to resume work despite a previous ruling that the president’s decision to extend Malaba’s tenure breached the constitution because he has turned 70.

President Muhammadu Buhari told young Nigerians on Thursday that they must "behave" in order to attract jobs and investment.

Sudan and Egypt agreed on Wednesday to coordinate efforts to push Ethiopia to negotiate "seriously" on an agreement on filling and operating a giant dam it is building on the Blue Nile, a joint statement said.

Police are trying to diffuse what appears to be a hostage situation in central Durban, where a man is believed to have an explosive device strapped to him.

The medieval martial arts enthusiast who slapped France's President, Emmanuel Macron across the face told a court he was a right-wing sympathiser who had acted because the president represented all that was rotten with France, BFM TV reported.

Williams was fired after the death of Enock Mpianzi. The 13-year old grade 8 pupil died at the Nyati Bush and Riverbreak lodge near Brits during a school orientation camp.

SA has been in a tizz this week after it was reported that a Thembisa couple welcomed 10 babies, allegedly setting a world record.

The new sites come after weeks of the vaccine rollout being disrupted by a shortage of availability of the jab.