The intricate connection between human and animal health has come into focus with the recent increase in the number of human rabies cases reported in SA.

Former public protector Thuli Madonsela has apologised to Legal Aid SA for a tweet about the man arrested in connection with the fire that ravaged parliament last week, sharing her regret that it was “interpreted to cast aspersions” on the organi...

Are the incidents related to the unrest and looting in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng last year?

Four suspects linked to a gang responsible for car hijackings and armed robberies in the south of Johannesburg were arrested at the weekend.

A Limpopo police sergeant was suspended for allegedly supplying liquor and dagga to inmates in holding cells at Phalaborwa police station on New Year's Eve.

Four suspects are due to appear in a Cape Town court on Monday charged with kidnapping a 26-year-old shopkeeper.

"Leave it be for now. We will get it fixed after the 2024 elections. Once the ANC is gone," wrote one user.

Bob Saget, an actor and comedian best known as the jovial dad on the television sitcom “Full House,” was found dead in a hotel room in Orlando, Florida, at age 65, authorities and his family said on Sunday.

The head of Brazil’s health regulator Anvisa has asked the country’s vaccine-sceptic President Jair Bolsonaro to retract statements he made criticising the agency for authorising the vaccination of children against Covid-19.

Colonel Marivate succumbed to gunshots after a gang fired at her police vehicle during a response to a supermarket robbery on December 30 last year.

SA must finalise a policy on vaccine mandates for certain settings and activities as it seeks to fully reopen its coronavirus-battered economy, the ruling party said.

According to government, PCR tests are regarded as the "gold standard" for Covid-19 testing.

An infant boy handed in desperation to a soldier across an airport wall in the chaos of the American evacuation of Afghanistan has been found and was reunited with his relatives in Kabul on Saturday.

Nineteen people were killed, including nine children, and dozens were injured when a fire started by a malfunctioning space heater spread smoke through a low-income building in The Bronx borough of New York City on Sunday, city officials said.

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Five people, including two children, drowned in separate incidents across SA at the weekend, the National Sea Rescue Institute reported.

Police on Saturday revealed that a joint task force consisting of officers from the Hawks, crime intelligence and the Qonce Flying Squad had arrested a 39-year-old suspect in connection with the November shooting of Warrant Officer Pieter Swanepoel.

The SA National Roads Agency has closed the left lane on the N1 South just before Botha Avenue in Centurion as a precautionary measure after a sinkhole formed at the weekend.

Heartfelt tributes have poured in for Capt Pierre Marx of the East London’s K9 Search and Rescue division, who died in the line of duty during the heavy floods on Saturday.

A prison warder was killed and his wife and two children injured during a botched cash-in-transit heist on the East Rand on Friday.

Who should be held responsible for the blaze that engulfed parliament?

"This was an act of nature and no foul play or any other cause is suspected," Mvezo chief Mandla Mandela said.

Investigation into the four boys’ kidnapping has been hampered by a ‘bizarre’ interdict

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At least 16 tourists died in freezing temperatures after being stranded in their vehicles in northern Pakistan, where thousands had flocked to enjoy the snow, officials said on Saturday.

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Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer said on Saturday he was well and had no Covid-19 symptoms after testing positive for the coronavirus this week, vowing to do everything possible to prevent another nationwide lockdown.

Sixteen people were killed and 18 injured in an accident involving a bus and a microbus on the road between Egypt's Suez and El-Tor, the Egyptian health ministry said in a statement on Saturday.

An air strike in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray killed 56 people and wounded at least 30 in a camp for the internally displaced, two aid workers told Reuters on Saturday, citing local authorities and eyewitness accounts.