The SPCA and the City of Cape Town’s animal control unit have rescued three pit bull terrier puppies that were being trained for fighting.

A steady stream of mourners on Saturday visited the scene of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's assassination in the western city of Nara, an unusual act of political violence that has shocked the nation.

Elon Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla and the world's richest person, said on Friday he was terminating his $44bn deal to buy Twitter because the social media company had breached multiple provisions of the merger agreement.

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Ukraine's Western allies on Friday urged Russia to allow Kyiv to ship grain out to the world as the four-month-old war threatened to bring hunger to countries far away from the battlefields.

Archaeologists in Spain said on Friday they had dug up an ancient jawbone that could help them look into the face of some of the earliest human ancestors in Europe.

Four employees from US Customs and Border Protection have been referred for disciplinary review over their treatment of Haitian migrants who they sought to push back across the Rio Grande using horses last September, CBP officials said on Friday as t...

US President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was an exercise in "raw political power" and signed an executive order on Friday to help protect access to services to terminate pregnancies.

Airborne French firefighters and hundreds of emergency crew managed to bring a wildfire near the Mediterranean coast under control on Friday, although it will take days to extinguish the blaze, local authorities said.

The Correctional Supervision and Parole Board (CSPB) on Friday deemed it necessary for the woman who kidnapped Zephany Nurse to undergo further interventions as part of her rehabilitation.

Sandton nightclub owner and convicted scammer Abdul Olatunji was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Johannesburg specialised commercial crimes court on the same day he was charged with another fraud case.

One year after the July unrest investor confidence in the province of KwaZulu-Natal is yet to be restored with many businesses across the country weary of whether their money remains safe.

Former British finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday he was running to replace Boris Johnson after he announced the previous day he would stand down as prime minister .

Nobody is above the law, including members of the ANC who may be found to have committed criminal acts or involved in the July 2021 civil unrest.

Protests are building in Africa over surging fuel costs that have governments scrambling over how to respond.

The City of Tshwane said on Friday operations had been suspended at the Bronkhorstspruit raw water pump station after theft and vandalism of power cables overnight.

Eight people have been arrested in connection with the hijacking and murder of a police officer whose body was found in a field on Wednesday.

Police minister Bheki Cele on Friday admitted that both he and activist Ian Cameron could have handled their robust public outburst “in a better way”.

The family of six-year-old Khayalethu Magadla, who fell into a manhole while playing with friends last month, has thanked the emergency services and South Africans for helping to search for him and for their prayers.

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The Lichtenburg magistrate's court on Friday postponed the case against a North West man accused of murdering his two-year-old nephew.

José Eduardo dos Santos, who ruled Angola for nearly four decades, winning a brutal civil war and overseeing an oil-fuelled boom that did little to alleviate poverty, died on Friday. He was 79 years old.

A 31-year-old mother and her two children, a son aged four and a five-year-old girl, died in a shack fire just after midnight at Klarinet in Emalahleni.

Load-shedding has worsened crime in many areas, according to community policing forums.

South Africa’s reliance on coal to generate most of its power makes it an environmental pariah but it’s also helping keep inflation in check, according to S&P Global Ratings.

Will those responsible for the unrest ever be held to account?

More than 2,435 cases relating to criminal activity during the civil unrest last year are on the court roll, with convictions obtained in at least 50 cases.

Ninety minutes after resigning as British prime minister on Thursday, Boris Johnson called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The University of the Free State (UFS) has rubbished a viral notice about masturbation at its student residence.

Some level of normality has been restored in Mbombela, Mpumalanga, after disruptive protests in the past two days that saw the town at a standstill — but taxi drivers warned this was not the end of their protests.