North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of congratulations to Queen Elizabeth, the reclusive state's foreign ministry said, as Britain celebrates her Platinum Jubilee.

Hong Kong deployed heavy security near a major park on Saturday as it warned people not to gather to commemorate China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square 33 years ago, as Taiwan decried efforts to erase the memories...

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Ukraine said it had recaptured a chunk of the factory city of Sievierodonetsk, the focus of a Russian offensive to take the eastern Donbas region, and could hold it for up to two weeks as fighting raged on Saturday.

An SA study has raised alarm about the state of teachers' health, suggesting that not only are they at high risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes due to metabolic disorders, but a lack of exercise could spell more health troubles for...

Absa Bank, SA’s fourth biggest bank by market capitalisation, has promised to make significant strides in race and gender transformation at senior levels in the next 18 to 24 months.

Figures released by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Friday showed 2,028 new Covid-19 cases had been identified in SA in the previous 24 hours.

Three security officers were injured during a cash-in-transit heist on Friday afternoon in Benoni, Gauteng.

EFF leader Julius Malema and MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi’s assault trial has been postponed until next month.

The strike at Sibanye-Stillwater mine will soon be over, the National Union of Mineworkers announced on Friday.

EFF leader Julius Malema and MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi appeared in the Randburg magistrate’s court on Friday for allegedly assaulting Lt-Col Johannes Venter in April 2018.

The SA Revenue Service has observed increased attempts to smuggle rhino horn out of the country through OR Tambo International Airport in the past year, with various false declarations used in a bid to hide the horns.

The lack of psychosocial support in SA schools is one of many challenges faced by children, one that has often been neglected and was heightened by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Stellenbosch University has appointed retired judge Sisi Khampepe as commissioner to conduct an independent inquiry into allegations of racism at the institution.

Primary school pupils made the gruesome discovery of a human skeleton while retrieving a soccer ball from under a mobile classroom in Alexandra, north of Johannesburg.

A state forensic witness in the Senzo Meyiwa murder trial was questioned on Friday about why he did not do gunshot residue tests on the hands of people who were inside the house at the time of the fatal shooting.

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Police minister Bheki Cele said the first three months of the year were brutal and unsafe for many South Africans as he announced the quarterly crime statistics on Friday.

A 51-year-old man appeared in the Gqeberha magistrate’s court on Friday on allegations of asset finance fraud.

Harini Logan, 14, of San Antonio won the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday after a first-ever "spell-off" was required for a champion to emerge in the extremely close competition.

A 16-year-old Mpumalanga girl has been arrested for allegedly killing her two-week-old baby and hiding the body in her schoolbag.

South Africans found the latest crime stats 'very disturbing'.

A man shot and killed two women in the parking lot of a church in Iowa state on Thursday and then turned the gun on himself, police said, adding three more dead to the toll in a series of recent shootings that have rocked the United States.

The latest crime statistics reveal a daily “violent bloodbath” in the country with, on average, 67 people murdered per day in the first three months of the year, the DA said on Friday.

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Elon Musk got into a Twitter spat with Australia's third-richest man on Friday over the value of putting an end to the pandemic-era habit of remote working.

Lawyers for Hillary Gardee murder accused Sipho Mkhatshwa said they could not represent their client because of a conflict of interest.

Cable car operations at the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company will be suspended from July 25 to allow safety maintenance work on its infrastructure.

Ukraine is fighting for time, trying to hold out against overwhelming Russian fire on its eastern front long enough for Western weapons to arrive and give it a badly needed edge.