Twitter's new owner Elon Musk fired top executives in an effort to avoid hefty severance payouts, while lining up other layoffs as soon as Saturday to avoid stock grants due on November 1, according to media reports

Michel Aoun, the 89-year-old Christian president who presided over Lebanon's cataclysmic financial meltdown and the deadly Beirut port blast, vacates the presidential palace on Sunday, leaving a void at the top of the failing Lebanese state.

Brazilian voters go to the polls on Sunday in a tense election to choose between re-electing far-right President Jair Bolsonaro or returning leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to office.

The death toll from flooding and rain-induced landslides in the Philippines has climbed to 48, the country's disaster agency said on Sunday, with 22 others recorded missing after tropical storm Nalgae inundated many parts of the archipelago.

Russia on Saturday suspended participation in a UN-brokered Black Sea grain deal after what it said was a major Ukrainian drone attack on its fleet in Crimea, dealing a blow to attempts to ease the global food crisis.

At least 100 people were killed and 300 injured in two car bombs that exploded outside the education ministry in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Saturday, the country's president said in a statement early on Sunday.

At least 149 people, mostly teenagers and young adults in their 20s, were killed in a crush when a huge crowd celebrating Halloween surged into an alley in a nightlife area of the South Korean capital Seoul on Saturday night, emergency officials said...

The body of a missing 15-year-old teenager was found floating alongside a pod of dolphins off Llandudno beach on Saturday afternoon, the National Sea Rescue Institute reported.

Enterprising stallholders plying their trade during the official handover of a certificate of recognition to King Misuzulu kaZwelithini in Durban have expressed mixed reactions about business during the landmark event.

Six people have died in a horror crash outside Worcester in the Western Cape, police have confirmed. Two of the victims were children.

Fighters from the M23 rebel group seized the town of Kiwandja in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday, residents and a local official said.

Two car bomb explosions targeting Somalia's education ministry rocked the capital Mogadishu on Saturday and blew out windows of nearby buildings, witnesses said.

Twitter users could in future choose a version of the social media platform they like by providing ratings on their tweets, Elon Musk, the new owner of the company, tweeted on Saturday.

Russia said on Saturday the accelerated deployment of modernised US B61 tactical nuclear weapons at Nato bases in Europe would lower the “nuclear threshold” and the country would take the move into account in its military planning.

Staff at the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company were placed on alert on Saturday afternoon due to a fire on the slopes of the mountain.

The head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards warned protesters that Saturday would be their last day of taking to the streets, in a sign that security forces may intensify their crackdown on unrest sweeping the country.

Shoppers and Johannesburg Pride attendees went about their business in Sandton on Saturday. But it was an eerie experience as a heavy police contingent and armed security guards watched people's every move.

Attending the recognition certificate handover ceremony of the Zulu king gives the next generation of traditional leaders a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to etch their names in history.

Saturday marks a significant occasion in South Africa's history, when King Misuzulu kaZwelithini receives a certificate of recognition from President Cyril Ramaphosa at Durban’s Moses Mabhida Stadium.

The Hawks have swooped on a former Mpumalanga municipal manager for allegedly stealing from the public purse and snapping up a R900,000 Mercedes-Benz.

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has secured his party’s backing to be its candidate in next year’s elections.

A police dive unit is pulling all the stops in the search for a 15-year-old girl who went missing in the sea off Llandudno, Cape Town, on Friday.

American rock pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis, who was torn between his Bible-thumping upbringing and his desire to make hell-raising rock 'n' roll with hits such as "Great Balls of Fire" and "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On", has died at the age of 87.

Russia said on Friday it had drafted 300,000 people in a month and is ending its call-up of reservists to fight in Ukraine, a divisive move that led to tens of thousands of Russian men fleeing and brought the first sustained public protest against th...

A 58-year-old former acting municipal manager of the Kai ǃGarib municipality, Johnny Mackay, appeared before the Upington magistrate’s court on Friday to face charges of contravening the Pension Funds Act.

A hammer-wielding man attacked US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband during a break-in at the couple's San Francisco home early on Friday, authorities said, in an assault that raised fears about political violence ahead of the November 8 midterm el...

Elon Musk has started to cut employees at Twitter.

The high court has handed heavy sentences to two men for the murder of a retired teacher during a robbery at a tavern in Thulamahashe in Mpumalanga.

The Bronkhorstspruit magistrate’s court on Friday sentenced a 57-year-old man to four life terms after convicting him of raping his girlfriend's two girls for a number of years.

Preparations are in full swing at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban ahead of the ceremonial handover of a certificate of recognition by the government to Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini on Saturday.