Emer-G-Med paramedics said that metro police officers were called to the scene after the homeless man spotted the baby in the bin on Boscombe Place in Durban's South Beach area.

Asked if the protests were linked to those seen in KwaZulu-Natal in support of jailed former president Jacob Zuma, Minnaar said: "I cannot confirm that. All I can confirm is that there has been protest action."

British billionaire Richard Branson was due on Sunday to climb into his Virgin Galactic passenger rocket plane and soar more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert in the vehicle's first fully crewed test flight to the edge of space.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party won the most seats in Ethiopia's parliamentary election, the election board said on Saturday, a victory that assures him another term in office.

Decades after burnishing his reputation as a wealthy daredevil mogul in a series of boating and hot-air balloon expeditions, Richard Branson is poised to promote his burgeoning astro-tourism venture by launching himself to the final frontier.

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Militants killed at least 45 people in an attack on the town of Faru in northwest Nigeria, residents and a hospital worker said on Friday.

Six students and two officials who were kidnapped last month from a school in Nigeria's Kaduna state were released after relatives paid ransom money, a school official and parent said on Friday.

A suicide car bomb targeting a government convoy exploded at a busy junction in Somalia's capital on Saturday, killing at least eight people, an eyewitness said.

New evidence from an ancient ostrich eggshell shows that between 250,000 and 350,000 years ago the Nama Karoo was a "Garden of Eden" covered in lush grazing and wetlands.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Friday shrugged off a video showing one of his younger brothers receiving cash from a political operator, saying it was part of a smear campaign by adversaries to discredit him.

South Sudan's two most powerful politicians gave assurances on Friday that they would not lead the country back into war as they marked its 10th birthday, and Pope Francis said he would visit if they did more to maintain a fragile peace.

(Rwanda said on Friday it had started deploying a 1,000-strong force to Mozambique to help the country combat an escalating Islamic State-linked insurgency that threatens its stability.

Jehan Sadat, the widow of late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, has died at age 88, the presidency said on Friday.

The death toll in the collapse of a Miami-area condominium tower rose to 79 on Friday after workers extracted 14 more bodies from the ruins and said they had reduced the pile of debris down nearly to ground level.

US President Joe Biden will host a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel next Thursday to affirm "deep and enduring" ties between the NATO allies while also tackling some areas of disagreement, the White House said on Friday.

Police said public order police were tipped off about dagga being cultivated on a property in Maynardt Street, Strand, where they found plants worth more than R400,000.

A Ford dealership that advertised a bakkie at a price nearly 20% lower than it was actually available has been reprimanded by the ad watchdog.

Haiti's senate, which currently comprises just a third of its usual 30 senators, nominated on Friday its head Joseph Lambert to be interim president after the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, a document reviewed by Reuters showed.

Thirty-two percent of Russians support the extremism ban on jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's political network while 27% oppose it, according to an opinion poll by the Moscow-based Levada Centre published on Friday.

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Three teachers will share almost R1m after arbitrators at the Education Labour Relations Council ruled in their favour.

The consequences of the violent protests that plagued KwaZulu-Natal on Friday spilt over into Saturday.

Think of Nasa and the images that spring to mind are probably rocket launches or the International Space Station. Certainly not fynbos.

“It is a hospitality bloodbath out there, with no support systems to fall back on," said Fedhasa chair Rosemary Anderson.

A wide-ranging SA study suggests people infected with the Beta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are at greater risk for hospitalisation and dying from Covid-19.

A lecturer who was fired for advising a student who failed maths to "think like a girl" if she wanted a pass mark has had his reinstatement bid rejected.

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KwaZulu-Natal paramedics from the VIP medical services had to alter their route on Friday when a group of protesters believed to be part of the “Free Jacob Zuma and shut down KZN” campaign blocked the road as they were responding to an emergency...

The vaccine rollout in SA's basic education sector has been extended to Wednesday July 14, the department said on Friday.