A nuclear power plant on the front line of the Ukraine war again lost external power, U.N. inspectors said on Saturday, fuelling fears of disaster while Moscow kept its main gas pipeline to Germany shut to hurt economies of Kyiv's friends in the West...

A cold front is expected to affect parts of the Cape on Sunday and Monday, the SA Weather Service says.

The US state department has approved a potential $1.1bn sale of military equipment to Taiwan, including 60 anti-ship missiles and 100 air-to-air missiles, with China threatening to take counter measures.

NASA makes a second attempt to launch its giant next-generation moon rocket, five days after pair of technical issues foiled initial try at getting spacecraft off the ground for the first time. The Artemis I lunar mission will launch an uncrewed astr...

Pope Francis on Saturday dissolved the leadership of the Knights of Malta, the global Catholic religious order and humanitarian group, and installed a provisional government ahead of the election of a new grandmaster.

Europe was plunged deeper into crisis as Russia’s Gazprom PJSC again halted its key gas pipeline indefinitely, a move decried by European politicians as an attempt to use energy as a weapon.

The Federated Hospitality Association of SA (Fedhasa) has welcomed the six-month extension for Zimbabwean exemption permits (ZEPs).

More than three years after the massive blaze, eight glass manufactures from France have begun the painstaking operation to clean and restore 39 high windows in the medieval cathedral's nave, choir, transept and sacristy.

Western Cape police have activated a 72-hour plan to nab the perpetrators who shot and injured two off-duty officers in Khayelitsha on Friday.

Zimbabwe has banned government ministries and local authorities from charging fees and levies in foreign currency, the ministry of finance said.

Luxurious toilets complete with heated seats and cleansing jets of water are so common in Japan they’ve become almost synonymous with its culture. They’re now taking off in the US -- thanks in no small part due to pandemic-induced shortages of to...

The toll from cataclysmic floods in Pakistan continued to climb on Saturday with 57 more deaths, 25 children, as the country grapples with a relief and rescue operation

Al Shabaab militants killed at least 18 civilians and destroyed trucks laden with relief food in an overnight attack in Somalia's central region, residents and a state news agency said on Saturday.

South African indigenous languages are among those at risk of a serious decline due to the increasing use of digital technologies. By some estimates only 5% of the world’s languages are likely to survive online.

Cape Town's libraries will have a fine-free week from Monday to Saturday to encourage people return 22,775 lost items, including books, study guides and DVDs.

CCTV footage has helped police nail a CCTV repairman for allegedly stealing a laptop and a watch from a top Eastern Cape school.

A political storm has erupted in South Africa after a video went viral showing the health minister for the Limpopo province – which borders Zimbabwe – berating a Zimbabwean woman who was seeking healthcare.

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...