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King’s Christmas speech to come from Westminster Abbey
The King is expected to talk about the “pilgrimage” of life, and the lessons it can teach.
WEDNESDAY, 24 DECEMBER 2025, 00:24

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The King is expected to talk about the “pilgrimage” of life, and the lessons it can teach.

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The Farooqi family have a chaotic Christmas in Lapland after a surprise bonus for Dad.

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Gen Mohammed Ali Ahmed al-Haddad and four others were on board of a jet that took off from Ankara on Tuesday evening.

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The US president has long denied any wrongdoing in relation to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

South Africa
Officials confiscated Crystal meth, Dagga, cell phones and sharp objects during the raid.

South Africa
1478 grade 1 learners and 3986 grade 8 learners remain unplaced.

South Africa
Hundreds queue at the border, waiting to be processed so they can travel home for festive holidays.

South Africa
The Wemmershoek fire in Drakenstein continued to burn fiercely late yesterday.

World
Zahra Tabari, 67, was sentenced to death after a trial that lasted less than 10 minutes, her family says.

World
Despite tensions between the Vatican and Israel’s government over the Gaza war, some Jews and Christians living in Israel are trying to build trust between their communities.

World
The Trump administration says it wants U.S. oil companies to return to Venezuela, but some don’t desire to re-invest. Why would oil companies be against returning to a country with large oil reserves?

World
President Trump has announced the Navy will begin building a new fleet of warships. And, a federal judge has ruled the deportations of more than 100 Venezuelan men to El Salvador were illegal.

Africa
Jane Ansah is going in a private capacity but reports about the cost and entourage have riled people up.

Africa
Those particularly affected are children and pregnant women – some going without food for days.

Africa
The Kenyan marathoner has all the running accolades he needs but is now focusing on new goals.

Africa
The victims, who include men, women and children, were ambushed on Sunday night as they travelled between villages.

Business
Renowned economist Dawie Roodt says that the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme will be a disaster for taxpayers and the national fiscus.

Business
Renowned economist Dawie Roodt says that the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme will be a disaster for taxpayers and the national fiscus.
Business
Raj Khaira, from Southampton, says his store will give sausage and chips to those in need.

Business
Over the course of 2025, several new car brands have launched in South Africa, all coming from Asia.
Politics
A week after she fulfilled her lifelong dream of obtaining a PhD, activist and researcher Dr Reneè Thompson died.

Politics
The Bitou Deputy Mayor was seen in a widely circulated video at the weekend, firing a gun.

Politics
Boyce suspended 31 MK and one EFF member, accusing them of an assault on the House’s dignity.

Politics
Parliament’s Spokesperson Moloto Mothapo says 40 public hearings were held all over the country.

Sport
The 84-year-old American businesswoman has become the latest celebrity owner of Swansea City.

Sport
Could the ‘small-market’ Jaguars make it from Jacksonville to Super Bowl LX?

Sport
Orlando Pirates players dominate the Bafana AFCON squad and with Moremi and Appollis showing up, more could set the tournament alight.

Sport
Norwegian biathlete Sivert Guttorm Bakken, who had been hoping to compete at the Winter Olympics in February, dies aged 27.
Education
[Independent (Kampala)] Arua, Uganda — More than 170 youth from vulnerable backgrounds in Arua City have completed a three-month vocational training programme, highlighting the growing importance of practical skills development in addressing unemployment and economic vulnerability.
Education
The instructor, a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, gave a zero to a student who wrote an essay arguing in favor of traditional gender definitions based on biblical teachings.
Education
Readers respond to a guest essay on the best approaches for universal child care. Also: A gift that never grows old.
Education
[Liberian Investigator] – Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah has congratulated Rev. Mrs. Dialokai Golanyon-Kemayah on her record-setting graduation from the Liberia Baptist Theological Seminary, recalling his long-standing relationship with her husband, Ambassador Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah Sr., and expressing regret for missing the ceremony.

Lifestyle
Lekka! Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus has been enjoying his time off with his loved ones at a tropical getaway…

Lifestyle
Minnie Dlamini has issued a scathing statement in the aftermath of the SIU investigation into irregular funding by the NLC, for which she says she was publicly and unfairly ‘singled out’.
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Lifestyle
‘Call of Duty’ co-creator Vince Zampella and another person have died after car crash.

Entertainment
Lookman restored Nigeria’s lead with a rising shot from just outside the box.

Entertainment
Jackson struck either side of half-time in Tangier.

Entertainment
R110 million in jackpots are up for grabs! Here are your PowerBall and PowerBall Plus results for 23 December 2025.

Entertainment
Catch up on the biggest stories of Tuesday, 24 December 2025 that you may have missed, in our simple daily news update.
Science/Tech
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: CBS cannot contain the online spread of a “60 Minutes” segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing. The episode, “Inside CECOT,” featured testimonies from US deportees who were tortured or suffered physical or sexual abuse at a notorious Salvadoran prison, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism. “Welcome to...
Science/Tech
An anonymous reader shares a report: It’s been more than eight years since Amazon bought Whole Foods, but the two companies still haven’t aligned their setup for the Microsoft software their employees use. That disconnect was flagged in an 8-week Deloitte review of Whole Foods’ use of Microsoft 365 apps earlier this year, according to an internal document obtained by Business Insider. Deloitte...
Science/Tech
In the late 1980s, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary sat on the New York Times best-seller list for 155 consecutive weeks and eventually sold 57 million copies, a figure believed to be second only to the Bible in the United States — but those days are thoroughly gone. Stefan Fatsis’s new book “Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary” chronicles what Louis Menand...
Science/Tech
European public institutions are quietly migrating away from American cloud providers and office software, driven less by policy ambitions in Brussels than by the mundane legal reality that GDPR-mandated risk assessments keep flagging the US CLOUD Act as an unacceptable threat to citizen data. Austria’s Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism moved 1,200 employees to the open-source...
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Motoring
There are only six cars left in South Africa with an automatic gearbox that can be bought for less than R250,000.
Health
Sudden surges of anguish can accompany intense mourning. That’s not unusual, experts say, and sometimes even helpful.
Health
The measles outbreak in the United States is now in its 11th month, with almost 2,000 cases. The Timmons family were some of the first people to get sick.

Health
Bertie Melly was in hospital for 18 months after his premature birth in May 2024.

Health
The shortage is due to a major supplier stopping manufacturing epidural bags, the government says.