Moving, tragic, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.

Air pollution cost South Africa more than R960bn and 42,000 lives in 2023, a new report finds, but the government keeps extending emissions exemptions.

When Teresa Mordoh’s son, Julio, died by suicide after allegedly being sexually assaulted by a teacher at St John’s College, her world was shattered. But in the depths of grief, Mordoh found a new ...

The plan is up against dysfunction within social development departments and fraught relations with NGOs that deliver most services.

Trump’s decision to impose steep tariffs on China, now at 30% after peaking at 145% in April, as well as blockbuster seizures of unauthorised vapes, have constrained the supply of Chinese-owned vape ...

The Springbok pecking order may well be shaped by performances in the United Rugby Championship and English Premiership playoffs over the next two weeks.

In an emotional day for the families of the Cradock Four, they visited the sites in Bluewater Bay and near Coega, along with their legal team and Judge Thami Beshe, where a desperate search for the ...

TOKYO, June 5 (Reuters) – Shares in Asia crept higher and the U.S. dollar languished ahead of the European Central Bank offering its policy outlook for a tumultuous global economy.

As cryptocurrency adoption accelerates across Africa, the excitement around the technology and its transformative potential is palpable. But alongside this rapid growth comes a critical challenge: ...

The South African Federation of Trade Unions in Gqeberha said on Wednesday that it was ‘deeply outraged, though not surprised’ by the Auditor-General’s damning findings on the Nelson Mandela Bay metro ...

The decision by the Free State High Court to withdraw charges against Moroadi Cholota, the former assistant to former ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule, reveals the level of crisis within the NPA.

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