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Asian families are often targeted by thieves for gold, which is traditionally given as weddings gifts.

Campaigners call the payments “abhorrent”, since some households still do not have permanent homes.

New technology could improve the care of babies with congenital heart diseases.

Police in Mpumalanga believe they have made a breakthrough in pursuing a syndicate involved in illegal mining in the province.

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MK veteran and founding member, Joel Cardin Ngalo, has been laid to rest at his home in Ephewuleni Village in Middledrift in the Eastern Cape.

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The case against 36 taxi drivers in Vereeniging has been provisionally withdrawn.

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The chief of the UN children’s emergency agency warned that humanitarian efforts were running late for the tens of thousands of Mozambicans affected by last week’s monster tropical cyclone ldai.

Communities in Zimbabwe continue to search through rubble for family members missing after the storm.

The world needs to step up support for the survivors of Tropical Cyclone Idai, the UN Secretary-General said on Friday, in a strong personal appeal as relief workers rush to provide aid to people stranded across the storm countries in southern Africa.

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Uncertainty over Brexit is prompting a surge in bookings for British holidays this year.

Professor Nicky March picks out some examples from art and literature and explains what they tell us.

Purdue Pharma has generated billions for the family that own it from selling controversial painkiller opioids.

Defending champion Paul Casey shares the lead at the halfway point of the Valspar Championship in Florida.

England midfielder Eric Dier will miss Monday’s Euro 2020 qualifier in Montenegro after being injured in the win over the Czech Republic.

England destroyed the Czech Republic in a real statement of intent at the outset of their Euro 2020 qualifying campaign.

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King’s College London to review security procedures as students explore legal action

King’s College London is to order an independent review of its security procedures after a group of students said they were singled out as troublemakers and barred from campus during a visit by the Queen.

The 10 undergraduates say they are exploring legal action against KCL after their security passes were...

Footage had emerged of staff using “inappropriate restraint techniques” at Clydeview School in Motherwell.

Apple Inc is expected to unveil a new video streaming service and a news subscription platform at an event on Monday at its California headquarters.

The next move in the college admissions scandal will unfold in a Boston federal courtroom on April 3.

Jin Gin is locally produced and inspired by J’Something’s Portuguese and South African heritage and it comes in three different flavours;

The Homeland Security Department inspector general released a damning report about FEMA’s inability to safeguard the personal info of the people it helped.

Hundreds of neighborhood residents of a petrochemical plant that burned for three days and briefly emitted cancer-causing benzene into the air brought their coughs, headaches and other symptoms to a mobile clinic on Friday set up by local health officials.

A well-regarded philosophy professor, Dr. Silvers knew the subject firsthand, having had polio as a child.

U.S. border agents said they have seized 1 million pounds (453,592 kg) of food products from China this month, rather than 1 million pounds of pork as they had previously announced, as they work to keep out African swine fever.

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It is estimated that in the year 2017 alone South Africans generated 54,2 million tonnes of general waste. Of these millions of tonnes of waste only 38,6% was recycled, which means almost two thirds of our waste still ends up on landfill sites. It is up to consumers to put this...

The Geometric Tortoise (Psammobates geometricus) is one of the world’s most beautiful of the chelonian family. Its domed geometric-like hard shell, striking summer-sunset yellow and black radiating pattern makes it the Fabergé Egg of the tortoise world. When the terrestrial tortoise is fully grown, it reaches only five to six inches. But, due to their […]

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President Cyril Ramaphosa says the financial and operational challenges faced by power utility Eskom are not caused by the independent power producer (IPP) programme. Responding to oral questions in the National Assembly on Thursday, the President said the IPPs would not collapse Eskom....