An alert detective outsmarted a murder suspect who tried to escape from a crime scene by hitching a lift.

Suspended ANC member Carl Niehaus arrived at the Estcourt magistrate’s court on Wednesday surrounded by comrades, a strong police presence and virtual support from Dudu Zuma.

Boom Supersonic, an aerospace start-up, hopes to resurrect faster-than-the-speed-of-sound commercial air travel across the Atlantic, not seen since the SST Concorde flown by British Airways and Air France in the 1970s.

California's wildfire crisis escalated on Tuesday as resurgent strong winds fanned the state's biggest conflagration, drove flames from a separate, smaller blaze into a rural mountain community and prompted widespread precautionary power shutoffs.

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The Taliban has declared amnesty and vowed to uphold women’s rights.

People in KwaZulu-Natal’s impoverished south coast towns were reeling after the devastation of the riots, but are hoping to forge a collective way forward.

Canada plans to resume military flights to Afghanistan to evacuate civilians as the US regains control of the Kabul airport, the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) said late on Tuesday.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott, whose state is engulfed in a fourth Covid surge, tested positive for Covid-19 on Tuesday but so far has no symptoms of the illness, his office said.

Solicitor-general Fhedzisani Pandelani provides an update on government's reparations.

Hong Kong police said on Wednesday four students were arrested for “advocating terrorism” after their student union passed a motion last month mourning the death of a 50-year-old who stabbed a policeman before killing himself.

Five suspects have been arrested following a robbery on a farm in Harrismith in Free State.

An Mpumalanga wife and husband who falsely claimed to be qualified teachers have been sentenced for fraud.

JPMorgan Chase & Co has launched a $20m fund for black-owned enterprises in SA

A 35-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for terrorising women and the elderly in Gqeberha, the National Prosecuting Authority said.

Patients who are asymptomatic can move out of isolation after the mandatory 10 days.

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Rhodes University has collaborated with local and foreign universities in an effort to revive and preserve indigenous African languages.

Two former police officers from Rocky Mount, Virginia, have rejected initial plea deal offers by the US Justice Department to resolve charges stemming from their role in storming the US Capitol on January 6, a federal prosecutor said on Tuesday.

Flooding and heavy rains interrupted efforts to search for survivors and help those left homeless or without food and water by the quake, which killed at least 1,400 people and injured thousands.

The Taliban has told the United States it will provide safe passage for civilians to reach the airport in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Tuesday.

Fatima Hassan of the Health Justice Initiative said their organisation would be launching an application to get full disclosure of the contract between the government and J&J.

The National Prosecuting Authority withdrew the prosecution against popular TV presenter and church leader Bishop Israel Makamu at the Palm Ridge magistrate's court on Tuesday.

SA recorded 553 new Covid-19 related deaths in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of fatalities to date to just under 78,000.

The state has paid just more than R70m in damages to the families of those killed in Marikana during August 2012.

The death toll in the horrific bus accident on the N2 between East London and Butterworth on Monday has risen to 30.

An accident involving a defence force truck left one person dead and two soldiers injured on the N3 near Harrismith in the Free State on Tuesday afternoon.