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UN official warns millions of Haitians ‘being held hostage’ amid surge in gang-related violence in Haitian capital.

One of the richest people in the world, Gautam Adani, was indicted over an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud scheme.

The Department of Home Affairs has dismissed 18 crooked officials, effective immediately, for a range of offences, including fraud, corruption and sexual harassment.

One of Cape Town’s most iconic landmarks, the Good Hope Centre, could be up for sale.

Freshly rescued from the depths of the abandoned Stilfontein gold mine, a 36-year-old father says he is willing to risk it all again just to retrieve the hidden treasure that he believes can secure his family’s future.

In the latest show of support for the Palestinian people, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu IP Trust, tasked with overseeing the legacy of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, has demanded the removal of an exhibition in his honour from a global event.

The International Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced a jihadist police chief to 10 years in jail for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during a reign of terror in the fabled Malian city of Timbuktu.

A veteran Ugandan opposition politician was kidnapped during a book launch in Kenya at the weekend, transferred to Uganda and is being held at a military jail in the capital, his wife said on Wednesday.

Burstone Group, formerly Investec Property Fund, sees potential for acquisitions locally, particularly in the “unloved” industrial property segment, emphasising it has never been “off SA” from an investment perspective.

Financial investigators trained by the National Prosecuting Authority are being lured away by the private sector and other state entities offering higher pay, the prosecutions chief has warned.

SA’s largest food producer, Tiger Brands, said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell its baby-focused interests, excluding baby nutrition, for R605 million in cash as it looks to pare down its portfolio and focus on key categories.

As Mogale City residents drown in sewage, the political leadership, led by former mayor Danny Thupane, allegedly did not hesitate to purchase three luxury BMWs for the Troika, costing ratepayers R2.3 million.

An eyewatering R2 billion has so far been spent on the Department of Defence and Military Veterans’ flagship Project Thusano, which trains medical students in Cuba, but the programme is not accredited in South Africa, leaving returning students with little to no job prospects.

Sun City’s biggest event of the year, the Nedbank Golf Challenge, is expected to attract over 70 000 spectators to the opulent North West resort from 5-8 December.

Linda McMahon is known for her many years in the wrestling world. Though her education experience is more limited than previous secretaries, she has embraced both conservative and bipartisan ideas.

[This Day] From the beginning of the 1st Basic Education School Sport (BESS) Games, Ondo State maintained its lead on the medals table and ultimately emerged as the overall champion.

[The Herald] Forty-Six students graduated at the Zimbabwe Online Agricultural College last Friday becoming the first product of the Second Republic’s initiative launched last year.

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The Verge’s Richard Lawler reports: Strava recently informed its users and partners that new terms for its API restrict the data that third-party apps can show, refrain from replicating Strava’s look, and place a ban on using data “for any model training related to artificial intelligence, machine learning or similar applications.” The policy is effective as of November 11th, even though...

The company, which dominates the market for chips used to build artificial intelligence, expects another big jump in the current quarter.

Tens of thousands of users reported that the website and app were inaccessible starting just before 3 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: DeepSeek, an AI offshoot of Chinese quantitative hedge fund High-Flyer Capital Management focused on releasing high performance open source tech, has unveiled the R1-Lite-Preview, its latest reasoning-focused large language model, available for now exclusively through DeepSeek Chat, its web-based AI chatbot. Known for its innovative...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning letter, but not a recall, after microorganisms were found in water samples and finished toothpaste products.

How to avoid a contentious family holiday after the big election.

Her fight for disability rights included founding a group called Not Dead Yet, which protested the work of Dr. Jack Kevorkian and others.

OPEC secretary-general Haitham Al Ghais on Wednesday told the COP29 climate summit in Baku that crude oil and natural gas were a gift from God, and that global warming talks should focus on cutting emissions not picking energy sources

A new version of the draft COP29 agreement will be released at midnight in Baku, Azerbaijan, as negotiators enter the last and most difficult stage of climate change talks, warning that “it will be difficult to find common ground by the finish”.

The union said that coal burn volumes have decreased by 12 million tonnes over the past decade, but the costs have grown by a staggering R25 billion.

Mashudu Mashau says it takes about two minutes to catch a penguin, a task he does weekly to investigate sightings of injured or sickly seabirds.