The Chinese capital Beijing woke on Sunday morning shrouded in thick dust carrying extremely high levels of hazardous particles, as a second sandstorm in two weeks hit the city due to winds from drought-hit Mongolia and northwestern China.

The Philippine military is sending light fighter aircraft to fly over hundreds of Chinese vessels in disputed waters in the South China Sea, its defence minister said, as he repeated his demand the flotilla be withdrawn immediately.

At least 114 reported killed by security forces on Saturday.

A suspected suicide bomber blew up outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Sunday, wounding some people on the first day of the Easter Holy Week, police and a witness said.

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The number of South Africans who have been infected with Covid-19 stands at 1,544,466.

A body was found floating in Silvermine dam in Cape Town on Saturday after a week-long search for a missing 69-year-old.

Five people were killed and 24 injured when a Cairo apartment building collapsed in the early hours of Saturday, Egyptian state news agency MENA reported.

The Eastern Cape, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal have had the highest proportion of deaths from Covid-19 cases to date, with case fatality rates exceeding the national in-hospital average of 22%.

When you're asked about your race in this year's census, you'll have much more freedom than before about the way you answer.

Ten people were arrested in the city of Bristol in southwest England on Friday after protests over a new policing bill turned violent with people throwing glass bottles and bricks at officers, police said in a statement.

The former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said he believes the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 likely escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, embracing a theory rejected by many global epidemiologists that has contri...

Facebook has frozen Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's page for violating policies against spreading misinformation about Covid-19 by promoting a remedy he claims, without evidence, can cure the disease, a company spokesperson said on Saturday.

Myanmar's ethnic armed factions will not stand by and do nothing if the military junta's forces continue to kill protesters, the leader of one of the main armed groups said on Saturday.

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The boss of the estate agency regulator has been dealt an early blow in her fight to extract R1.5m in defamation damages from a DA MP.

Several South Africans are feared to be among dozens of foreign contractors killed or captured on Friday as they tried to escape Islamic militants in northern Mozambique.

North Korea said on Saturday that the administration of US President Joe Biden had taken a wrong first step and revealed "deep-seated hostility" by criticising its self-defensive missile test.

Two teachers have been fired for misconduct after sexually inappropriate behaviour with female pupils.

The mall manager who humiliated Ndebele activist and author Thando Mahlangu by denying him entry to a Midrand store this week must apologise and pay damages, iKosi Mkhambi Mahlangu says

Discovery CEO Adrian Gore said the scheme planned to vaccinate 3 million adult beneficiaries of Discovery-administered schemes, and would be ready to launch the programme on May 1 - if vaccine supply allowed.

SA recorded 1,516 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, along with 67 more fatalities, health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Friday.

Former crime intelligence boss Richard Mdluli appeared in court on Friday on fraud, corruption and theft charges related to the police’s secret slush fund.

Veteran broadcaster Jeremy Maggs has left eNCA, according to a message sent to staff on Friday.

Midnight March 26 2021 marks the first anniversary of lockdown in SA due to Covid-19. The initial lockdown was announced on March 23 2020.

SA's record low lending rates will not last forever, Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago said on Friday.

A number of Gauteng pupils have not yet been placed at schools as the department says government schools have reached their capacity with many parents moving children from private schools as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Outgoing head of the Covid-19 ministerial advisory committee Prof Salim Abdool Karim  had favoured a stepped introduction of the AstraZeneca vaccine to SA until he found out the dosage interval had changed.

Online marketplaces are a great way to flog your unwanted possessions or pick up a bargain, but many first-time sellers are duped by fraudsters and end up unintentionally gifting them instead.