Sydney, the epicentre of Australia's biggest coronavirus outbreak, is expected to see daily infections peak next week, authorities said on Monday, as they look to speed up immunisations before easing lockdown rules.

Six Palestinians escaped from a high-security Israeli prison on Monday, police said, and Israeli media reports identified them as members of militant groups.

The SA Weather Service (Saws) has issued a warning to KwaZulu-Natal residents about heavy rain, possible localised flooding and mudslides.

A self-described survivalist in body armour shot and killed four people, including a woman and her three-month-old baby boy in her arms, before surrendering to police in central Florida in the US on Sunday, officials said.

The release of former president Jacob Zuma from prison on medical parole has garnered mixed reactions from scores online.

One person has died and two people are fighting for their lives after their vehicles crashed head-on on Gauteng's N12 highway on Sunday night.

False negatives and false positives after a Covid-19 test are common.

The driver of a bus carrying more than 70 church congregants lost control and the vehicle rolled down an embankment in Underberg, KwaZulu-Natal on Sunday, leaving scores injured.

TimesLIVE ran a poll last week asking readers whether they thought the military veterans should receive the payouts.

Mpumalanga police believe they may have caught a serial rapist who was operating in Matsulu and Kaapmuiden areas near Malelane.

Significantly fewer deaths related to Covid-19 were recorded on Sunday.

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Soldiers who staged an uprising in Guinea's capital on Sunday said in a short broadcast on state television that they have dissolved the constitution and the government in the West African state.

City Power has confirmed the suspension of its CEO Mongezi Ntsokolo.

The Taliban said on Sunday their forces had fought their way into the provincial capital of Panjshir, the valley where opposition forces have been holding out since the fall of Kabul three weeks ago.

At least two people were injured as heavy gunfire broke out near the presidential palace in Guinea's capital Conakry on Sunday morning.

Princess Charlene of Monaco has left hospital in SA after treatment for an ear, nose and throat infection.

53% of those who participated in a poll by TimesLIVE said the decision showed "Ramaphosa is not serious about fighting alleged corruption".

A surfer died on Sunday after being bitten by a shark off a surfing beach on Australia's east coast.

The Mpumalanga education department will from Monday take Covid-19 vaccinations into schools, said the office of education MEC Bonakele Majuba.

The hijackers had targeted a woman sitting in her white Suzuki Ertiga.

In February, Van Damme said she was concerned by the spread of Covid-19-related misinformation on social media platforms including WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook.

Police received information that a woman was robbed at gunpoint in Zeekoe Road, Grassy Park, on Thursday morning by three men who forced her out of her vehicle.

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.