The extended Covid-19 regulations  have received mixed reactions, with trade union Solidarity going as far as instituting legal action.

EFF leader Julius Malema and MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi are charged with assaulting a police officer at Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s funeral.

Officials and lawmakers negotiating an overhaul of the EU carbon market are struggling to reach a compromise over plans to levy CO2 costs on suppliers of polluting fuels, potentially putting the bloc's climate change targets at risk.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega's son Laureano, an influential figure in the country's leftist government, has reached out quietly to the Biden administration in recent months seeking to re-engage with the United States, according to people famili...

South Africans will have to wait to see if the rising cost of poultry due to the war in Ukraine will push up their bill when ordering Nando's, KFC or Chicken Licken.

Singapore's high court has convicted two people over what authorities consider to be the largest market manipulation case in the city-state, a joint statement by the Singapore police and Monetary Authority of Singapore said on Thursday.

Fifth-three people died when a housing block collapsed in the Chinese city of Changsha last week, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Friday after days of rescue efforts.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party lost control of traditional strongholds in London and suffered losses elsewhere in local elections, early results on Friday showed, as opposition parties capitalised on the government's recent...

A 23-year-old man accused of attacking comedian Dave Chappelle during a performance was charged on Thursday with four misdemeanor criminal counts after the city's district attorney declined to bring more serious charges.

Their orbital research ranged from space-grown chilies to robots.

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has devastated hundreds of hospitals and other medical institutions and left doctors without drugs to tackle cancer or the ability to perform surgery, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Ex-New York mayor Rudy Giuliani is refusing to appear before the US House of Representatives committee investigating the January 6 2021 Capitol attack unless he is allowed to record the proceedings, a spokesperson for the panel said on Thursday.

'Aquaman' actor Amber Heard broke down in tears in the witness box on Thursday when she claimed her ex-husband Johnny Depp sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle and threatened her life shortly after they were married.

Two boys, aged four and seven, died in a fire in Cape Town late on Thursday.

Thousands of people told to flee the largest wildfire burning in the United States have chosen to stay and defend generational homes in the mountains of northern New Mexico, even as some run out of food and water, officials said.

Knee injury is one of the most common injuries among rugby players, with severe injuries often leading to rigorous rehabilitation and medical attention which can result in players staying away for extended periods.

If the Covid-19 vaccines production line is shut down, this could see the continent scramble for vaccines as it did in the initial stages of the pandemic.

The US health regulator said on Thursday it was limiting the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine for adults due to the risk of a rare blood clotting syndrome, the latest setback to the shot that has been eclipsed by rivals.

A team from SpaceX's spacecraft Endurance has landed off the coast of Florida in the US after 175 days aboard the Space Station.

A Liberian man who US authorities say served as general in a rebel group that sought to overthrow the West African nation's president two decades ago was arrested and charged with immigration fraud, the Justice Department said on Thursday.

Stage 2 load-shedding, which has been in force since May 3, is expected to continue despite lower electricity use over the weekend.

A Mexican journalist was found dead in the northwestern state of Sinaloa on Thursday, authorities said, marking the ninth death of a media worker in a unprecedentedly bloody year for the country which has drawn international scrutiny.

According to University of the Western Cape research, social media addiction or excessive use of technology has been identified by some mothers as a barrier to effective parenting.

Pupils, like other people, are expected to continue wearing face masks in the classrooms and general indoor gatherings, unlike outdoors in playgrounds and sports fields.

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Four people will make their second appearance in the Randburg magistrate’s court on Friday in connection with the murder of an elderly man whose body was found in a shallow grave at his home in Cresta, Johannesburg last week.

A final state witness in the assault case of EFF leader Julius Malema and EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is expected to appear when the trial resumes in the Randburg magistrate’s court on Friday.