More than 14,000 girls between the age of 10 and 14 have fallen pregnant over the past four years in SA.

A horrific taxi crash into a tree in Krugersdorp left six people dead and five - including a child - seriously injured on Saturday night.

A private dive team will try to locate the source of a suspected oil spill spotted in the Bay Marchand area of the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, after Hurricane Ida wreaked havoc in the region this week, the US Coast Guard said on Saturday.

Brazil's federal health regulator Anvisa on Saturday suspended the use of over 12-million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by China's Sinovac Biotech Ltd that were produced in an unauthorised plant, it said in a statement.

US President Joe Biden will visit all three sites of the September 11, 2001, hijacking attacks next week to honor the nearly 3,000 people killed and mark the 20th anniversary of the most lethal terrorist assault on US soil, the White House said.

Hurricane Ida's toll rose to 12 storm deaths in Louisiana on Saturday, still far outpaced by the dozens killed in flooded Northeast US states where President Biden is heading next week to assess damage.

Taliban and opposition forces battled on Saturday to control the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, the last Afghan province holding out against the militant group, as the top US general warned of a "civil war" if the Islamists failed to consolidate pow...

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A KwaZulu-Natal mother will spend 15 years behind bars for murder after a woman she attacked with acid died.

Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland said on Friday it had sent forces to the neighbouring region of Galmudug to help the military there push al Shabaab Islamist militants out of a strategic town they captured last month.

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten crouched to sit at a first-graders’ table in a Florida school, chatting with masked 6-year-olds about books and their former kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Smith.

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At least 17 people were killed in celebratory gunfire in Kabul, news agencies said on Saturday, after Taliban sources said their fighters had seized control of Panjshir, the last province in Afghanistan holding out against the Islamist group.

Kabul airport had been closed since the end of the massive US-led airlift of its citizens, other Western nationals and Afghans who helped Western countries.

The US Capitol rioter nicknamed the "QAnon Shaman" is disappointed former President Donald Trump did not pardon him, his defense lawyer said on Friday after the man pleaded guilty to taking part in the January 6 unrest.

US President Joe Biden on Friday ordered the Department of Justice to review documents from the FBI's probe into the September 11, 2001, attacks for declassification and release.

Shoppers at Cascades Lifestyle Centre in Pietermaritzburg were left stunned on Wednesday when a Ford Eco-sport landed in a stream.

Storm-battered Louisiana residents and area businesses, who have endured almost a week without electricity, are having trouble finding generators or fuel to power them, making it difficult for residents to cool their homes after Hurricane Ida.

The Democratic Republic of Congo will seek compensation from the owners of an Angolan diamond mine after a tailings dam leak polluted drinking water, causing 12 deaths and making thousands of people ill, the country's environment minister said on Thu...

The City of Cape Town safety and security committee has approved amendments to a bylaw which could result in homeless people being fined if they refuse a “reasonable offer of alternative shelter”.

A man died after suffering a heart attack while spearfishing off Thompson Bay on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast on Saturday morning.

Western Cape police seized abalone worth R2.4m this week.

An illicit cigarette smuggler has been jailed for five years after being smoked out in a police undercover operation.

Mthethwa also urged South Africans to promote tolerance and use their diverse cultures to bridge the divisions created by the apartheid regime.

An internet cafe on the Garden Route was secretly operating as an online gambling den, the Cape Town high court has been told.

Cape Town is plagued by a “chronic” illegal dumping problem, the city said.

A teacher who was awarded more than R400,000 after complaining she had been underpaid for three years has had the award withdrawn.

Thirty-four tonnes of sugar cannot easily turn into sweet nothing, but after four years and two court cases no-one has a better idea about what has happened to the consignment.

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More than 2.8-million Covid-19 cases have been recorded since the outbreak of the coronavirus in SA, the NICD said on Friday.