Russia defaulted on its international bonds for the first time in more than a century, the White House said, as sweeping sanctions have effectively cut the country off from the global financial system, rendering its assets untouchable.

As the country wraps up Youth Month, we recognise the involvement of youth in combating the many challenges they face, some of which are unprecedented.

Food costs have more than tripled. The increase in prices has been spurred by a sharp depreciation in the Zimbabwe dollar, which has lost more than two-thirds of its value against the dollar this year and is Africa’s worst-performing currency.

The majority of TimesLIVE readers called for the tavern's owners as well as the parents and children to be held to account.

Eskom sees a "very real risk" of having to implement stage 6 power cuts by 5pm on Tuesday, its CEO Andre de Ruyter said.

Eskom is holding an urgent media briefing on Tuesday.

The SA Democratic Teachers' Union says the Enyobeni tavern tragedy is a stark reminder of the "appalling conditions" township youth live under where the lack of amenities forces them to "tavern-prowl" and consume alcohol.

Bereaved parents and families in Scenery Park, East London, gathered for a prayer meeting on Monday after the deaths of 21 young people at the Enyobeni tavern in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Daily updates on the coronavirus pandemic in SA.

Qatar Airways and Airlink have signed an agreement that is set to improve access to destinations such as Ggeberha (Port Elizabeth) Hoedspruit, Skukuza and George as well as Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

A 60-year-old man died on a Durban highway after he suffered a heart attack and crashed his car on Monday.

President Joe Biden's chief hostage negotiator led a US delegation on a visit to Caracas on Monday in the latest bid to secure the release of Americans detained in Venezuela, according to a US official and other sources familiar with the matter.

Grieving families who have kept bodies of loved ones at a government mortuary in Ga-Rankuwa near Pretoria have at times allegedly been given bodies that are in poor condition.

Three suspects allegedly stormed the Sambandou clinic in Vhembe district in Limpopo in the early hours of Monday and robbed nurses of their cellphones, money and car keys at gunpoint.

The department of health’s ambitions for controlling where doctors work have been dealt a blow by the high court in Pretoria, after it declared the National Health Act’s provisions for issuing health establishments with a "certificate of need" un...

More than 1,000 people were inside when two Russian missiles slammed into the mall, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said

One of the last Ukrainian defenders of Sievierodonetsk said he withdrew in a boat, bitter to be leaving after weathering a weeks-long Russian onslaught on the ruined city but happy to be alive as he and others crossed the river to higher ground.

Head of the centre for respiratory diseases and meningitis at the NICD, Professor Cheryl Cohen, urged government to re-impose Covid-19 regulations to keep track of the spread of monkeypox.

Inkosi Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela said alcohol exacerbated many underlying social ills.

Cape Town police on Monday arrested eight suspects and seized six rolls of Eskom aluminium cables worth R2.5m stolen during a hijacking in Piketberg last month.

The bodies of 46 dead migrants were discovered inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, city officials said, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling along the U.S.-Mexico border.

A cyclist in Mpumalanga was killed in a freak road accident after a truck hijacking was foiled.

Mourners expressed anger and despair on Monday at the death of 21 teenagers in an Eastern Cape tavern over the weekend, as investigating authorities said the youths were probably accidentally poisoned by something they ate, drank or smoked.

Ukraine updates.

Figures released by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Monday showed 212 new Covid-19 cases had been identified in SA in the previous 24 hours.

The body of Refiloe Malope was retrieved from  a mineshaft in Benoni on Monday afternoon.

Two brothers alleged to have been involved in a human trafficking ring appeared in the Belfast magistrate’s  court on Monday.

A Louisiana judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Republican-led state from enforcing laws banning abortion that were set to take effect after the US Supreme Court's blockbuster decision to end the constitutional right to the procedure nationwide.

The Rustenburg regional court on Monday postponed the case against attorney Betty Diale until August 4 for a pre-trial conference..

A 17-year-old who survived the Enyobeni tavern tragedy says she “fainted for three hours and when I woke up I could hear a man saying I must be dumped among the dead”.