Liz Truss has spent the past week preparing to become prime minister of the UK. She’s been firming up plans to help households and businesses hit by soaring energy costs and finalizing her cabinet appointments.

A man was shot dead in Newlands West, Durban, on Friday night.

Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani said nothing in public about the unrest that erupted on Iraq's streets. But government officials and Shiite insiders say it was only Sistani's stance behind the scenes that halted a meltdown.

The whole world has much to thank Mikhail Gorbachev for. As many have pointed out since his death in Moscow earlier this week, Gorbachev – the last leader of the Soviet Union – did more than anyone to bring the Cold War to an end peacefully, r...

Leo Prinsloo became an internet sensation last year for his cool head and "balls of steel" during an attack on the cargo van he and Lloyd Mtombeni were escorting.

As UN inspectors sought to avert a nuclear disaster on Ukraine's frontline, the West and Russia wounded each other's economies, with Moscow keeping its main gas pipeline to Germany shut on Saturday while threatened with price caps on oil exports.

Gunmen killed at least 42 people in Ethiopia's Oromiya region, two residents who buried the bodies in mass graves said on Friday.

Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who was much admired in the West and who lived long enough to see all the reforms he had championed undone, was set to be buried on Saturday without state honours or the presence of President Vladimir Putin.

Home affairs minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has extended the validity of Zimbabwe exemption permits until June 30 next year.

Football governing body Fifa has banned a former official of the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) from all football-related activities for five years after finding him guilty of sexually harassing three female referees.

Namibian offshore oil and gas discoveries by TotalEnergies and Shell are of commercial quantities, likely in the billions of barrells, the southern African nation's mines and energy minister said on Friday.

A group of about 10 armed suspects attacked a cash van near Bushbuckridge in Mpumalanga and robbed the four guards of an undisclosed amount of cash and their firearms on Friday morning.

Ground teams at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday began a final full day of launch preparations on the eve of a second attempt to send NASA's giant, next-generation moon rocket on its debut test flight, five days after technical problems foil...

A KwaZulu-Natal artist on a mission to restore social cohesion and peace in communities affected by violence during the 2021 July unrest on Friday unveiled a giant peace mural.

The FBI recovered more than 11,000 government documents and photographs during its August 8 search at former President Donald Trump's Florida estate, as well as 48 empty folders labelled as “classified,” according to court records that were unsea...

French government support for gasoline prices has led to long queues of cars from Belgium queuing at gas stations just over the border with France where gas can be more than 30 euro cents ($0.30) per litre cheaper.

Russia's Gazprom said on Friday that natural gas supplies via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline would remain shut off after the main gas turbine at the Portovaya compressor station near St Petersburg was found to have an engine oil leak during a joint inspe...

Scientists have unearthed remains of Africa's oldest dinosaur in Zimbabwe which lived about 230 million years ago.

Nigerian "fraud kingpin" James Aliyu allegedly had biometric information linking him to a fake identity, that of Msweli Velenkosini, deleted on the home affairs national identification system (Hanis) from his prison cell.

The Kimberley district court is on Monday expected to pass judgment in the bail application by a medical practitioner based in Kimberley who is accused of raping a 17-year-old patient.

A 31-year-old woman from eastern Ukraine has been detained on accusations of sending the locations of her soldier husband's unit and other army assets to Russian military intelligence, Ukraine's State Security Service (SBU) said on Friday.

The CEOs of Eskom, Prasa, Telkom and Transnet on Friday hosted a round-table with key stakeholders to seek solutions and discuss progress in tackling theft and vandalism of infrastructure.

The main districts of Chinese tech hub Shenzhen shut down public transport and extended curbs on public activities on Friday as cities across China battled Covid-19 outbreaks that have dampened the outlook for economic recovery.

London police said on Friday an unattended bag in Heathrow Airport's Terminal 2, which prompted an evacuation, was deemed not to be suspicious, adding the incident had been stood down.

A new mood of unease pervaded Argentina on Friday as rattled citizens woke to the aftermath of a gun attack on their high-profile vice president that, barring a mechanical malfunction, could well have killed her.

Russian cosmonauts Commander Oleg Artemyev and Flight Engineer Denis Matveev exit the ISS to continue outfitting the European robotic arm on the station's Nauka laboratory.

After nine years following a pastoral path, Nthabiseng Mamokete Sihlangu has been offered a 'church' of her own.

Tensions at Kalafong Hospital in Atteridgeville, Pretoria, eased on Friday, with no protests or heated conflicts.

The transport department is set to replace the current driver's licence card with a new card, with new design features that comply with international standards.

Police reinforcements were deployed in Nyanga, Cape Town, after sporadic incidents of violence in the area early on Friday left several vehicles damaged, including four SAPS vans and a bus.