The province has officially entered the third wave of Covid-19, says the head of health Dr Keith Cloete.

"They feared your golden skin," said Lindsay Myeni.

Scenes of looting and forceful evictions of families accused of living in drug dens played out on Wednesday in Soweto, where foreign-owned spaza shops were also attacked overnight.

Women of child-bearing age should be banned from drinking alcohol, that is one of the proposals contained in the first draft of the World Health Organisation's Alcohol Action Plan 2022-2030.

An influx of homeless people into midtown Manhattan after an emergency move by New York City to ease crowding in shelters has been a fact of pandemic life since last spring.

Preliminary findings of an independent investigation into the deadly collapse of a Mexico City metro rail line last month showed the accident was caused by a structural fault, a senior city official said on Wednesday.

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed and sent to President Joe Biden a bill making June 19, or “Juneteenth,” a federal holiday commemorating the end of legal enslavement of Black Americans.

Imagine parking your car on what seems like a normal parking lot to fetch something only to return to a huge hole filled with water where it was parked.

Five hundred Hong Kong police officers sifted through reporters' computers and notebooks at pro-democracy tabloid Apple Daily on Thursday, the first case in which authorities have cited media articles as potentially violating the national security la...

The son of former All-Pro defensive tackle Vince Wilfork was arrested last month for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of his father's jewellery, including two Super Bowl rings.

A predator park worker was killed by a Siberian tiger on Wednesday afternoon.

US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Wednesday to begin cybersecurity and arms control talks at a summit that highlighted their discord on those issues, human rights and Ukraine.

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A 1,098 carat diamond believed to be the third largest gem-quality stone ever to be mined, has been discovered in Botswana, according to a joint venture between Anglo American's De Beers and the government.

A truck was petrol bombed during a violent protest on the N3 near Harrismith in the Free State this week, provincial police said.

Zimbabweans Tinashe Nyamudoka, Tongai Joseph Dhafana, Marlvin Gwese and Pardon Taguzu have defied the odds and taken their seats at the table of some of the world's top wine tasters.

A matric pupil said that while other students “sleep in” on such a historic day, “I am forced to wake up early and go write an exam on a public holiday without a choice.”

Fuel management and payment solutions specialists Payment24 have launched “biometrics for the vehicle” which instantly identifies any vehicle enrolled in the system as it drives into the forecourt, and then authorises refuelling and automates pay...

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Former Eskom chairperson Jabu Mabuza died on Wednesday as a result of Covid-19 complications.

Independent Media on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Gauteng health officials, accusing them of a "cover-up of mammoth proportions" in the ongoing saga of the "Thembisa 10" babies.

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SA recorded more than 13,000 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, the NICD said on Wednesday.

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A Malaysian court on Wednesday overturned a lower court's finding that an Irish teenager had died by misadventure after vanishing in the jungle, saying an open verdict should have been recorded instead.

A Swiss baker has invented a so-called “Peace Cake” to mark the Biden-Putin presidential summit, inspired by US and Russian culinary traditions.

Ethiopia will show a sceptical world that it can successfully hold a peaceful election next week, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told a crowd of tens of thousands of supporters at his first — and last — campaign rally on Wednesday.

United Nations experts said on Wednesday they had been unable to find evidence of direct support by Islamic State for an Islamist militia in eastern Congo, which was blacklisted in March by Washington as a terrorist group.

US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Geneva on Wednesday for their first summit since Biden took office, but their talks lasted less than four hours — far less than Biden's advisers had said they expected.

The Hawks rescued a 13-year-old Gauteng girl who was allegedly kidnapped and about to sold to a human and sex trafficking syndicate by her stepmother and step-grandmother for R40m.