About 4 billion people experience severe water shortages for at least one month a year and about 1.6 billion people — almost a quarter of the world's population — have problems accessing a clean, safe water supply, according to the United Nations...

Parts of former US President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida, golf resort have been temporarily closed because of a coronavirus outbreak, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Paintings by Pablo Picasso, Rene Magritte and Joan Miro as well as Banksy's tribute to Britain's National Health Service are among a selection of artworks going under the hammer this month at auction house Christie's 20th Century Art sale.

Turkish police detained pro-Kurdish lawmaker Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu from his party's headquarters in parliament early on Sunday, where he had been staying for four nights to protest the stripping of his MP status over a separate case.

Scuffles broke out as anti-lockdown protesters marched through central London on Saturday, defying police warnings for them to stay away due to coronavirus restrictions.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on Saturday in support of the Asian American community after a shooting at three local day spas this week left eight people dead, six of them Asian women.

Some migrant families arriving in the United States will be housed in hotels under a new program managed by nonprofit organizations, according to two people familiar with the plans, a move away from for-profit detention centers that have been critici...

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Portugal said on Saturday that passengers arriving from South Africa via a stopover in another country must also quarantine for 14 days and present a negative Covid-19 test taken 72 hours before arrival, the interior ministry said on Saturday.

The Baptist church where the suspect in this week's Atlanta-area spa killings was a member issued a statement on Friday decrying the attack as a wicked betrayal of faith and describing the eight victims, who included six women of Asian descent, as bl...

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A hotel that bills itself as the world's first “polar bear hotel” has opened in China's far northeastern Heilongjiang province, drawing both guests and criticism for its central feature: live polar bears.

People who have been infected with the coronavirus variant responsible for 98% of SA's Covid-19 cases have antibodies that fend off all variants.

An earthquake struck northeastern Japan on Saturday, hitting areas devastated by the 2011 disaster and generating a tsunami of 1 metre, public broadcaster NHK said.

Space and sea explorer Richard Garriott is the first person in the world to have explored the North Pole, the South Pole, flown to the International Space Station and descended to the deepest point on Earth — the Mariana Trench.

The salt hills have become a popular local hangout after one Egyptian posted a picture of people sliding down the hills.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg took part in a protest under the banner of 'No More Empty Promises' in central Stockholm on Friday, with protesters attending in shifts to avoid breaching coronavirus restrictions.

The Klein Karoo is an unlikely setting for an outbreak of anarchy, but events in a tiny municipality forced the Cape Town high court to issue an urgent interdict against councillors and officials on Friday.

Thulas Nxesi said TERs grants, which had been extended until March 15, will not be disbursed beyond this point.

President Joe Biden deplored a surge in anti-Asian violence in the US after a deadly shooting rampage in Georgia, and asked all Americans to stand together against hate during a visit to the state on Friday.

A communication company wants to encourage South Africans to be vaccinated against Covid-19 with the help of artfully choreographed images.

It was the first race of a new season and Christine Kalmer really wanted to win. After all, there was prize money up for grabs, and the possibility of eventually winning a car.

A senior partner at a leading SA law firm has scored a victory for Nivea in its battle with actress Connie Ferguson's beauty products company.

Australia's east coast was smashed by heavy rains on Saturday, sparking dangerous flash flooding that forced the evacuation of multiple regions as the fast-moving waters unmoored houses, engulfed roads, stranded towns and cut power lines.

A data verification process has been cited as the reason for more than 300 Covid-19 related deaths being recorded in the past 24 hours.

Facebook Inc's platforms including WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

The World Health Organization's vaccine safety panel said on Friday that available data from AstraZeneca's Covid-19 shot do not point to any overall increase in clotting conditions but it would continue to monitor for any adverse effects.

Somewhere in Burgersfort, Limpopo, there is an 11-year-old girl whose life will never be the same.