Little Island is its name, but the vision and the budget behind it were colossal.

Police minister, Bheki Cele has expressed concern over allegations that the Zandspruit community chose to take the law into their own hands and burn to death suspected criminals in the area because police did not respond to crime calls.

A smoking trail of lava from a volcanic eruption appeared to have halted a few hundred metres from the edge of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's main city on Sunday morning, said a Reuters reporter at the scene.

Two men were shot dead and eight others were wounded in downtown Minneapolis, police said early on Saturday.

Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook on Friday told a court that threats to iPhone security and privacy required tight control of the App Store, which “Fortnite” game maker Epic Games says is a monopoly that Apple illegally abuses.

A remote-controlled Chinese motorised rover drove down the ramp of a landing capsule on Saturday and onto the surface of the Red Planet, making China the first nation to orbit, land and deploy a land vehicle on its inaugural mission to Mars.

A leader of Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi movement on Sunday dismissed US sanctions on military officials and threatened possible expanded attacks on “aggressor countries” after Washington urged the group to engage seriously in peace efforts.

Iran's parliament speaker said on Sunday that a three-month monitoring deal between Tehran and the UN nuclear watchdog had expired as of May 22, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported.

Twenty-one people were killed when extremely cold weather struck during an ultra-marathon on Saturday in rugged Gansu province in northwestern China, state media reported on Sunday, sparking public outrage over the lack of contingency planning.

Some teenagers and young adults who received Covid-19 vaccines experienced heart inflammation, a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory group said, recommending further study of the rare condition.

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A family of three were killed in a head-on collision on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast on Saturday, IPSS medical rescue said.

A Free State police officer was arrested for extortion and corruption on Friday.

A yacht crew was rescued after getting into difficulty off Cape Morgan in the Transkei on Friday, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said.

The Gauteng department of roads and transport has called for an urgent investigation into a bus fire which claimed the lives of six people on Friday.

The Education Labour Relations Council (ELRC) has dismissed a KwaZulu-Natal teacher for sexually abusing a pupil over a period of two years.

US authorities have confiscated roughly $90,000 from a Utah man who sold footage of a woman being fatally shot during the January 6 attack on the US Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, according to court filings.

Not even VIP customers are safe from offers of "unlimited" benefits which turn out to be nothing of the kind.

The number of deaths due to Covid-19 in 2020 was nearly three times the official toll, and SA's Covid-19 mortality rate for the year was probably among the top five in the world.

Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager charged with fatally shooting two people and wounding a third during protests in Wisconsin last August, made his first in-person court appearance on Friday ahead of trial in November.

Ghanaian police on Friday said they had detained 21 people they suspected of promoting an LGBT+ agenda at an unlawful assembly in the southeastern city of Ho.

Nepal plunged into fresh political turmoil on Saturday as President Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved parliament and fixed general elections in November amid a worsening Covid-19 outbreak.

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip held into Saturday as officials said Egyptian mediators conferred with the sides on securing longer-term calm.

Doctors who operated on the girl at Mankweng Hospital in Polokwane said the strength of the rare earth magnets made them a menace, because they trapped tissue between them.

Thailand on Friday deployed dogs trained to detect coronavirus infections by sniffing samples of human sweat, as the country deals with a spike in infections, including many without symptoms of the virus.

A boy who was bitten on the face by a spitting cobra was resuscitated in a rural hospital and saved by an antidote.

Credit rating agencies S&P and Fitch on Friday affirmed SA’s sovereign rating and outlook.

Billboards advertising Diesel jeans have been given the thumbs-up by the ad watchdog after two consumers complained about their "sexually-charged" images.

A retailer censured for dishonesty in a "promotion" ad last year has been given another rap over the knuckles for the same offence.