A luxury power yacht sold to new Cape Town owners last week crashed into Robben Island on Tuesday night.

About 30,000 nurses in New Zealand walked off their jobs on Wednesday in a nationwide eight-hour strike after negotiations with the government for better pay and working conditions failed.

Mackenzie Friedman was born a perfectly healthy bouncing baby girl but now at five months old desperately needs a life-saving blood stem cell transplant from a matching donor.

The minister said on Tuesday he is the one who raised the issue of special leave with the president after his family was dragged into the Digital Vibes scandal.

A Wisconsin pharmacist who pleaded guilty to trying to spoil hundreds of doses of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine because he was sceptical about them has been jailed for three years, the US justice department said on Tuesday.

Users joked they had "organised Spiderman" for the bash and called on brands to donate gifts to the couple.

The Thomson Reuters Foundation reports armed groups in Mozambique are increasingly kidnapping children as a warfare tactic, putting victims at risk of sexual violence, early marriage and being used as fighters in the country's worsening conflict

Around half of British adults visited a pornographic website or app in 2020, a year in which the Covid-19 pandemic caused more activity of every kind to shift online, media regulator Ofcom said on Wednesday.

A woman who allegedly hired accomplices to stab her husband to death has been served with a 22-year jail term by Pietermaritzburg High Court.

Ten new Covid-19 cases among Nelson Mandela University students in Gqeberha in the past 24 hours has prompted the university to suspend all face-to-face classes.

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The two accused will face charges of child abuse and assault.

Competing in the championships would have given gold medalist Semenya an opportunity to qualify for the Tokyo Olympic Games.

“As a corporate citizen, we have a responsibility to help efforts to prevent the spread of Covid-19,” said FNB's points of presence CEO Lee-Anne van Zyl

Stage 2 load-shedding will be implemented from 10am on Wednesday until Sunday night due to delays in returning generating units to service.

Musician Bulelwa "Zahara" Mkutukana has found herself on the wrong side of the law for failing to appear in court in a case brought by the SA Revenue Service (Sars).

"We have officially vaccinated over 1 million senior citizens aged 60 years and above under phase two. We must convey our appreciation to the senior citizens who have, and continue, to come forward in their numbers to be vaccinated," said health depa...

A drive-by shooting at a petrol station in Orkney claimed the lives of three people and left six others injured, North West police said on Tuesday.

The Tshwane University of Technology has suspended contact classes at all its campuses, saying the surge in Covid-19 numbers, particularly in Gauteng, was a cause for concern.

Eight men suspected of being part of a syndicate that hijacks trucks in Gauteng were arrested on Tuesday.

The government says it cannot verify a media report published on Tuesday that a Gauteng woman gave birth to 10 children, breaking the world record.

Pfizer Inc said on Tuesday it will begin testing its Covid-19 vaccine in a bigger group of children under age 12 after selecting a lower dose of the shot in an earlier stage of the trial.

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh arrived in Cairo on Tuesday for the first in a series of talks this week between Egyptian authorities and Palestinian factions that aims to reinforce a ceasefire with Israel, Palestinian and Egyptian sources said.

A Ghanaian court on Tuesday denied bail to 21 gay rights activists arrested nearly three weeks ago for what police described as an unlawful gathering, their lawyer said.

French President Emmanuel Macron was slapped in the face on Tuesday by a man in a crowd of onlookers while on a walkabout in southern France, video of the incident showed.

Eskom announced on Tuesday that stage 2 load-shedding would be in place from 5pm to 10pm.

The attorneys representing three alleged Isis-affiliated accused on trial for double murder have withdrawn their representation of the trio.

Government, news and social media websites across the globe were coming back online on Tuesday after being hit by a widespread outage linked to the US-based cloud company Fastly Inc.

The Competition Commission’s blocking of the Burger King sale appears to give rise to unintended consequences, says Business Unity SA.

In Yemen's southern port city of Aden, Nawfal al-Mojamal struggles to keep Soviet-era machinery running at the main power plant as electricity outages fray the nerves of residents already fed up with poor services and political wrangling.