At least seven parachutists were killed and over a dozen injured after a twin-engine L-410 aircraft crashed in a forest in Russia's Kemerovo region in southwestern Siberia, Russian media reported on Saturday.

Two executives of Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, charged under a national security law, were denied bail on Saturday in a case that has drawn international condemnation and stoked fears over media freedoms in the financial hub.

Hardline judge Ebrahim Raisi leads Iran's presidential election, an interior ministry official said on Saturday, a day after millions of Iranians voted in a contest that critics boycotted over economic woes and political restrictions.

A senior public servant who was fired for her involvement in a series of expenses fiddles totalling more than R300,000 has failed in a last-ditch bid to get her job back.

An Eastern Cape man was hauled to court on Friday for his alleged role in a foiled cash heist at his workplace.

A suspected fraudster's flashy wheels have seized up after the Hawks discovered the Range Rover was allegedly bought with the help of forged documents.

A doctor was fired halfway through a two-year internship after forging prescriptions and using them to obtain addictive drugs.

Coronavirus updates.

Goliath Gaming's Julio "Beast" Bianchi has managed to qualify for the FIFAe World Cup 2021 scheduled to take place in London from 6 to 8 August 2021!

This weekend, on Saturday, 19 June 2021, there will be a Fortnite Minor League Cup taking place, featuring gaming hardware as prizes. Here's what you need to know.

In this week’s edition of It’s Time To Upgrade Now, You Guys, But For Real, Rockstar has confirmed that multiplayer services for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game are now on limited time.

EA has debuted its next Battlefield game, featuring wingsuits, weather hazards, and 128-player mega-maps – but, for the first time since 2009’s Battlefield 1943, it won’t include a single-player campaign.

SA recorded more than 10,510 new Covid-19 cases and 118 deaths in the past 24 hours, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) said on Friday.

This week the French embassy in SA and the consulates-general of Cape Town and Johannesburg announced that they will be vaccinating French nationals in the country, including the staff in the French network who are aged 55 and older.

A senior cleric with Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram confirmed the death of its leader and urged fighters to stay loyal in its fight against rival Islamic State militants, according to a video seen by Reuters on Friday.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was appointed for a second-five year-term on Friday by the 193-member UN General Assembly.

The Western Cape health department said its surveillance teams had picked up that many cluster outbreaks were a result of small social gatherings rather than mass gatherings.

Gauteng transport MEC Jacob Mamabolo said his department remained “firm” in its call for the scrapping of e-tolls.

Police have arrested three more people linked to the discovery of R400m worth of drugs in a boat being transported on the N1 freeway earlier this month.

"It cannot be that 10 or 8 babies are born and that no evidence of their whereabouts or existence can be established," the national health department said on Friday.

Another year, another Ubisoft Forward conference! The French publisher and developer kept things short and sweet this year, saving its biggest gun for last while providing plenty of updates for many of its other games.

There are now 4,700 Covid-19 cases in Gauteng schools, said provincial education department spokesperson Steve Mabona.

UCT clinical anatomy lecturer Jeshika Luckrajh, 24, talks about her steep trajectory into academia and how having mentors helped her realise her dream.

Four family members were shot dead execution-style and their home set alight near Hazyview, while in Bushbuckridge a man was gunned down and his home burnt by four armed men.

Three rhino poaching suspects have been arrested in separate incidents in the past seven days in the Kruger National Park.

Due to a lacklustre response to stricter measures intended to curb the spread of Covid-19, coupled with rising numbers of hospital admissions in Gauteng, the government has been forced to rope in the military.

Notting Hill Carnival, billed as Europe's biggest street party, has been cancelled for a second year in a row due to the Covid-19 pandemic, organisers said on Friday.

The more infectious Delta coronavirus variant will become dominant in Germany by the autumn at the latest, the country's top public health official said on Friday, urging the public both to continue wearing masks indoors and to get vaccinated.

'From the video footage it was quite clear that someone was assigned to do what they have done,' the Gauteng education MEC said after visiting Buyani Primary School in Finetown.

The former MP questioned what she called the policing of women's bodies, saying men should also take responsibility for their health.