More than 700,000 people fleeing the war in Ukraine have been recorded in Germany thus far, Welt am Sonntag newspaper reported on Saturday, citing Interior Ministry data.

The bodies of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine were brought to a rail yard outside Kyiv and stacked with hundreds of others in a refrigerated train, waiting for the time when they can sent back to their families.

A court case in which two North West policemen are charged with raping a 20-year-old woman was postponed on Friday for further investigation and DNA test results.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Saturday that the spread of Covid-19 had thrust his country into "great turmoil" and called for an all-out battle to overcome the outbreak, while 21 new daily deaths were reported among people with fever.

Shanghai was tightening its Covid-19 lockdown for what it hoped would be the final week of its battle with the virus before it could gradually begin to ease restrictions, while Beijing kept fighting its much smaller but persistent outbreak.

The floods that devastated parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape in April, killing 435 people,  were definitely linked to climate change and can be expected every 20 years.

Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that his $44-billion cash deal for Twitter Inc was "temporarily on hold" while he waits for the social media company to provide data on the proportion of its fake accounts.

One dead blesbok, one injured pilot, numerous piles of wreckage and 19 lucky pilots and passengers. That's the tally from the latest crop of investigation reports posted by the SA Civil Aviation Authority after midair emergencies between last Novembe...

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It is a disease that no one talks about, but new research has revealed that German measles or rubella, which causes miscarriages, stillbirths and birth defects among pregnant women, is putting the lives of thousands of women and children at risk.

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have banned the use of hand-held spikes by traffic officers to stop vehicles believed to be breaking road regulations.

The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Friday reported 8,351 new Covid-19 cases had been identified in SA.

Israeli police officers charged at Palestinian mourners carrying the coffin of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on Friday, before thousands led her casket through Jerusalem's Old City in an outpouring of grief and anger over her killing.

Police arrested five suspects a few hours after an ATM was bombed in Carousel View in Tshwane on Friday.

The Johannesburg specialised commercial crimes court on Friday dismissed the bid by some of the accused in the R191m "blue lights" case to have their fraud and theft case struck off the roll.

A landmark Pretoria high court ruling this week has succeeded in having the Divorce Act declared unconstitutional and invalid, clearing the way for women who did not earn financially during their marriage and would therefore not qualify for any kind ...

Eskom will now implement stage 1 load-shedding from 5pm to 10pm on Friday due to some recovery in the generation capacity on Friday afternoon.

The high court in Bloemfontein on Friday dismissed a last-minute application by the directors of Gupta-owned company Islandsite Investments 180 (Pty) Ltd in the restraint application brought by the Investigating Directorate.

A case of Lassa fever was diagnosed in a man from KwaZulu-Natal on Thursday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases announced on Friday.

The Zimbabwean family is very disappointed that Elvis Nyathi's alleged killers were granted bail, as they perceived SA as a country that recognises human rights.

The shooting of Const Donay Delano Phillips in a Cape Town hospital has robbed SA of a great talent.

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Unilever has recalled boxes of Knorr “Cup-a-Soup Beef and Vegetable Lite” which bear the best before date of "BB 22SEPT 23 2082 E".

Simphiwe Mweli, the man accused of the January 2020 murder of socialite Kavitha Nerputh, broke down and sobbed when Pietermaritzburg magistrate Bhekizitha Phoswa pronounced him not guilty of the crime.

Just one detail in a photo uploaded online can help Yves Goethals and his team of digital detectives track down a victim of child sexual abuse.

United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a pro-Western moderniser who had aligned the Gulf Arab state closer to the United States and its allies, died on Friday.

An 82-year-old woman who was nabbed with close to 4kg of dagga strapped around her body has escaped jail time, Mpumalanga police said on Friday.

Covid-19 has changed the landscape for charitable donations.

A Durban man died after he was struck by a truck and dragged a few metres at his workplace on Friday.

Analysts at Barclays have warned of a 5 percentage point hit to eurozone GDP and a dive below dollar parity for the euro if Russia closes its gas taps as part of the escalating war in Ukraine.