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Henry Reese, who was moderator at the event where the author was stabbed, speaks to the BBC.

After a decades-long campaign, more than 4,000 people across the UK will get interim payments.

Punjabi Lehar is helping reunite those who were separated by India’s partition in 1947.

Police are searching for two suspects after a woman and two of her children were shot at, killing one child, while driving in Midrand, north of Johannesburg.

The South African Weather Service has issued a warning for damaging winds between Cape Columbine and Plettenberg Bay from Wednesday into Thursday.

According to Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza, the disease has been detected on farms, feedlots and communal areas in KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, North West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga and the Free State.

The child disappeared from near her Elsies River home in February 2020 and more than a week later, police arrested the accused in the Eastern Cape. He led police to her body in a storm water pipe, along the N1 highway, near Worcester.

Experts behind the project claim the technology for “de-extinction” already exists, but others are sceptical.

She largely left the spotlight before the 2016 election of Donald Trump, who has become her key ally.

The president hails the $700bn (£579bn) bill as the “final piece” of his long-stalled domestic agenda.

Raila Odinga has rejected the results of Kenya’s presidential election calling them “null and void”.

Gambia’s women gardeners are helping the huge waste problem by turning organic waste into fertilisers.

Ruto becomes Kenya’s first sitting deputy president to succeed the incumbent following competitive elections.

As tallies pointed to a narrow victory for Ruto, supporters of his rival Odinga began to allege that forms were altered.

The National Lotteries Commission has been overwhelmed with corruption over the past few years.

Turnaround time on applications is an average of two years, with many simply needing to be signed off by the relevant minister.

We first try to help, says bank – but others believe its conduct could bring agriculture to its knees and affect food security.

The average 16 to 24-year-old watches TV for 53 minutes a day compared with nearly six hours for over-65s.

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in Tshwane says it will be laying criminal charges against Tshwane Mayor Randall Williams at the Brooklyn Police Station in Pretoria on Wednesday.

The Section 194 Committee looking into the fitness of Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to hold office has declined her request to subpoena President Cyril Ramaphosa to appear before it.

Ace Magashule is likely to deploy the same tactics in Free State to save his political career from the doldrums

The president’s evidence is not necessary to determine whether she is guilty of misconduct, the section 194 committee concludes

Watch the best of Tuesday’s Hundred action as Manchester Originals hosted Welsh Fire at Old Trafford.

Welsh Fire’s David Payne is caught out by the Manchester Originals’ quick-thinking wicketkeeper Phil Salt, who hits the wickets from about 15 yards for a brilliant stumping.

Children’s charities urge Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss to deliver reforms to “flawed” care system in England.

The Silverball Retro Arcade, a low-slung building along the boardwalk in New Jersey beach town Asbury Park, is not your typical museum.

French fashion house Balenciaga is literally selling shoelaces as earrings – and charging a whopping R4000 per pair!

Celebrated designers Gert-Johan Coetzee and Palesa Mokubung will be showcasing their work at the Free State Fashion Week in September.

Dineo Ranaka topped the Twitter trends list after her Kaya FM co-anchor Sol Phenduka broke his silence on their radio drama,

There seems to be more fights and family drama on the cards for new parents, Babes Wodumo and Mampintsha, in ‘Uthando Lodumo’ season two.

Manti Te’o used to be revered.

Italian cinema icon Gina Lollobrigida will run for the Senate in her country’s elections next month, weeks after celebrating her 95th birthday.

Kristin Chenoweth managed to leave host Steve Harvey speechless after she got “Wicked” on a recent episode of “Celebrity Family Feud.”

Damage suffered was deemed to be the worst in Toyota’s global history with the automaker being forced to write-off about 4 000 flood damage vehicles.

A new study from the C.D.C. provides more details about a polio case detected in New York last month, and reports that the virus was in the state’s wastewater in April.

The B.C.G. tuberculosis vaccine may protect against Covid-19 and other infections by broadly bolstering the immune system.

Actor Rose Ayling-Ellis worked on the creation of the doll, saying “it’s quite powerful” and “such a big deal.”

The agency issued a final rule that took years to complete and opens the door to cheaper, more accessible devices without a prescription or medical exam.

Authorities suspect a toxic substance is to blame, but the cause of the mass death is still unknown.

Hot temperatures and strong winds formed a ‘firenado’ in California on Wednesday.

Meltwater flows from the glaciers, which may be set for their highest mass losses in 60 years.

Macro photographer Geraint Radford says insects have a bad reputation, but they’re “funny”.