Free State police found 51 firearms, including assault rifles, hunting rifles, shotguns and handguns, along with an assortment of ammunition and explosives.

French tourist Benjamin Briere, who was arrested in Iran 10 months ago, faces charges of “spying and propaganda against the system”, one of his lawyers told Reuters on Monday.

Iran wants a guarantee that mistakes committed by the Trump administration will never be repeated.

The police were called in to disperse a group of protesting students who set tyres alight outside the University of Zululand, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, on Monday morning.

Charlie Hebdo’s latest cartoon depicting Queen Elizabeth kneeling on the neck of Meghan Markle has the world abuzz.

The power utility said it suffered further breakdowns at five power stations during the weekend.

Former Wits University vice-chancellor Adam Habib has come under fire after he used the N-word during a video call with students at the University of London’s School of African and Oriental Studies

The vehicle had to be lifted out with a crane.

Students took to the streets of Johannesburg early on Monday to continue their protests about fees as 26 universities across SA braced for a national shutdown.

The world still needs to have conversations about racism and white supremacy, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Monday, as the country marked two years since a white supremacist attacked two mosques in the city of Christchurch.

US President Joe Biden will name Gene Sperling to lead implementation of the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief plan, one of the largest economic stimulus measures in American history, an administration official said on Sunday.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top US infectious disease expert, said on Sunday he hopes former President Donald Trump will push his supporters to get the Covid-19 vaccine and emphasised that pandemic-related restrictions should not be lifted prematurely.

For months, eight-year-old cancer patient Chiquita Breedt lay cheerless in bed, worn out from harsh treatments her tiny body had to endure - until she was handed a virtual reality kit.

Farmer Theuns Vogel was hoping that his vegetable farm would be his pension. Instead, his wheat crops have failed, allegedly as a result of the raw sewage that has flowed unchecked from the Rooiwal wastewater treatment plant.

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Security forces killed at least 14 protesters in the poor, industrial Hlaingthaya suburb of Myanmar's main city on Sunday after Chinese-financed factories in the area were set ablaze, according to local media.

A 13-year-old suspected housebreaker was found hiding in a bathroom at a home in Bluewater Bay in Gqeberha on Saturday, Eastern Cape police said.

Armed men attempted to kidnap more students in Nigeria's Kaduna state overnight on Sunday, a state government official said, as 39 others from an earlier attack remain missing.

Japanese worshippers prayed for the safety of themselves and their families on Sunday by walking barefoot with Buddhist monks over smouldering coals at an annual festival near Mt Takaosan.

Eskom announced on Sunday that it has extended load-shedding to Wednesday due to constrained generation capacity.

London's police force must explain its actions against people gathered at a vigil to mark the killing of a 33-year-old woman, home office minister Victoria Atkins said on Sunday.

As university students continue to fight against financial exclusion, the University of Cape Town (UCT) has announced it will not block students from registering if they have debt.

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The VBS Mutual Bank scandal saw seven more arrests by the Hawks, including two ANC bigwigs.

Scores of amabutho (Zulu warriors), traditional leaders, hospital staff and members of the public sang, danced and ululated as the body of the late Zulu monarch King Goodwill Zwelithini left the Inkosi Albert Luthuli hospital on its way to Nongoma on...

Some law firms and banks in Hong Kong face compulsory testing for coronavirus as most of the 47 new cases recorded on Saturday were linked to a gym used by the financial and expatriate community.

A Free State health worker has been arrested for allegedly selling a bottle of ARVs for R100.