Australia's involvement in the development of hypersonic missiles with treaty partners the United States and Britain was part of an effort to achieve peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific region, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday.

Daily infections have fallen in the last week or so, with 214,985 new infections reported on Wednesday, about 20% fewer than a week ago. That took total cases since the pandemic began beyond 22 million, with 130,708 deaths.

A driver died ramming his car into the gate of the Russian embassy in Bucharest early on Wednesday, police in the Romanian capital said in a statement.

The commission’s private talks ran for more than three hours on Tuesday night before two men and two women were selected

The picket, dubbed “Land Day”, will see Malema and Shivambu “confront” the billionaire about land issues.

Residents in the major Chinese financial centre of Shanghai, with 26 million under lockdown, scrambled to secure food on Wednesday, with supermarkets shut and deliveries restricted amid another citywide Covid-19 testing programme.

"It is important South Africans are the first to buy into the vision of a united Africa with one currency and one passport. Our country is on the verge of joining other failed states. It is crucial to lead the charge in joining forces for collective ...

Five candidates are being interviewed to fill two vacancies in the Constitutional Court.

Nigeria has repeated its demand for telecom companies to bar calls from unregistered phone lines, part of the government's policy to boost security amid an Islamist insurgency and a spate of kidnappings.

Countries around the world should provide $15 billion in grants this year and $10 billion a year thereafter to manage the long-term risks of Covid-19, the International Monetary Fund said in a new staff paper released on Tuesday.

UN scientists on Monday laid out ways to rein in emissions and curb climate change, including a chapter on actions that city planners can follow.

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For the second time in less than a week, a Flysafair flight made a “precautionary” landing after “a technical issue” was picked up during take-off from King Phalo Airport in East London on Monday.

Built during apartheid, hostels in the township have become dilapidated and dangerous. A dynamic young member of Joburg’s mayoral committee is on a mission to change this.

Zimbabwe's leading mobile operator Econet Wireless has announced the appointment of Elizabeth Tanya Masiyiwa to its board.

The World Health Organization has noted cases of the combination of the Delta and Omicron Covid-19 variants, known as a recombinant, but early studies have not found it to be more severe than other strains, it said.

Former President Barack Obama returned to the White House on Tuesday for the first time since leaving office in 2017 to tout the benefits of his signature healthcare law and bolster his friend and former governing partner, President Joe Biden.

The last candidate to be interviewed for a vacancy in the Constitutional Court, judge Owen Rogers, said on Tuesday he thinks the court of 11 justices is too small and too important to allow anything along the lines of a quota to determine who is part...

"One of the allegations against RT was that it was a propaganda channel. We do not shy away from the fact that we are a Russian government channel ... We are presenting the Russian government’s point of view to an international audience," Slier sai...

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One of the candidates for the two Constitutional Court vacancies, judge David Unterhalter, on Tuesday admitted that he made a mistake when he decided on a matter that came before the Supreme Court of Appeal last year and again in the Constitutional C...

The talk of the town in Joburg's upmarket suburbs of Hyde Park, Dunkeld and Illovo is that a lone serial arsonist is on the loose who breaks into homes, helps himself to food and drink then sets the house alight. But police say it's simply not true.

“The institutions that have complied with the 2022 approved NSFAS eligibility criteria and conditions for financial aid will receive payment from NSFAS," said the financial aid body.

The department of correctional services on Tuesday said a remand detainee had been abducted by two armed gunmen in Thembisa, Gauteng.

The University of the Free State on Tuesday confirmed that a fire that engulfed its Qwaqwa campus was deliberately started.

Eskom on Tuesday said it had received a R54m payment from the Maluti-a-Phofung municipality in Free State, which owes it R6.6bn for electricity used but not paid for.

Strong and competent women should be appointed to positions of authority in SA courts rather than "paying lip service" to the issue of gender transformation.

Operation Dudula is taking its message to KwaZulu-Natal. That's the word from deputy chairperson Dan Radebe before a march on Sunday to mark the official launch of the movement in the province.

Johannesburg mayor Mpho Phalatse is convinced City Power security guards are the targets of co-ordinated attacks by ruthless criminals.

Three people were shot and two vehicles set on fire when a 6.30am quarrel at a tavern in Mpumalanga turned into a violent rampage.