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The government is spending £1.3bn on military support, so how much of a difference is it making?

A woman was released on a warning for allegedly defrauding the Covid-19 Temporary Employer and Employee Relief Scheme.

Two people were arrested for impersonating medical doctors and fraudulently issuing medical certificates.

Residents of Morokweng Village in the North West have vowed to find the man who raped an 11-year-old girl.

Xolile George was due to be appointed on Wednesday by both Houses of Parliament, but after a meeting between the presiding officers and opposition leaders, it was decided to postpone these motions by a week.

The EU’s latest sanctions are held up by infighting, but a summit on Monday is unlikely to solve it.

The pandemic pushed Indian courts to adapt, making the legal system more accessible.

Intelligence agents wanted accounts of journalists and activists to be removed, whistleblowers say.

Maggie Grout has started an NGO that will 3D-print schools where access to education is not guaranteed.

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and beyond this week.

At least 60 people have been killed by elephants in Zimbabwe since the start of the year, compared with 72 over all of 2021 year.

Suspected jihadists killed around 50 civilians in Burkina Faso, the Eastern region’s governor said, in the latest attack in the impoverished Sahel nation.

Eleven newborn babies have perished in a hospital fire blamed on an electrical short circuit in the western Senegalese city of Tivaouane, authorities said.

The government will face pressure to give more support if oil and gas prices do not fall, the think tank says.

Firms face problems with supply chains, energy bills and skill shortages, says Alison Rose.

Energy prices are soaring, but electric car charging is still much cheaper than petrol, says RAC.

As the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee approaches, memorabilia and flags are flying off the shelves.

Ireland’s first woman president and chair of ‘The Elders’ Mary Robinson, says one of the biggest challenges the world faces is underwhelming leadership amid massive challenges like climate change and nuclear weapons.

South Africans could be paying more than R25 per litre for petrol from next week. This, as the government fuel tax relief of R1.50 per litre comes to an end plus a reported under-recovery of around R2.30.

Minister in the Presidency Mondli Gungubele says South Africa will stay on alert and take advice from the Department of Health regarding the Monkeypox virus that has been detected in the US and UK, outside Central and West Africa where it is usually found.

Deputy President David Mabuza has commended the military veterans for the critical role they played and their dedication to the liberation of the country.

Romania’s Irina-Camelia Begu apologised Thursday for petulantly throwing her racquet into a French Open crowd where it hit a child in the face.

Manchester United chief Richard Arnold says he understands fans’ frustrations after a disastrous season but hopes the arrival of new manager Erik ten Hag will lead to “renewed optimism”.

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James Wharton says he didn’t know Hungarian talkshow host Zsolt Bayer was speaking at rightwing event

The chair of England’s university regulator, who was criticised for participating in a conference in Hungary on the same platform as a notorious far-right journalist accused of antisemitism, has said he did not know who he was appearing alongside.

James Wharton, chair of the Office for...

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent to protect students from school shootings. Massacres keep happening.

Many U.S. hospitals are postponing scans used to diagnose diseases after a Covid lockdown in China hobbled the main U.S. supplier of an imaging chemical.

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‘I like going this way. It’s better than waiting in line’: Ray Liotta – best known as hustler Henry Hill in ‘Goodfellas’ – has died.

Pull out all your winter gear, sub-zero weather conditions are on their way with yet another cold front across much of SA…

Ray Liotta actually enjoyed a long and varied career, but it’s perhaps appropriate that his screen legacy will be bookended by two of the mercurial tough-guy roles in which he excelled, in “Something Wild” and “The Many Saints of Newark,” 35 years apart.

Just one day after a shooting at an elementary school in Texas, some asked that ABC’s hit show “Abbott Elementary” tackle the subject.

Andy Fletcher, a keyboardist and founding member of Depeche Mode, has died, the band announced on their official social media channels. He was 60 years old.

Ellen DeGeneres bid a tearful farewell to her daytime talk show on Thursday, saying that the show had “forever changed my life.”

Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill launches an app giving women exercises according to their menstrual cycle.

The existing 2.8 GD-6 oil-burner will be paired to what is expected to be a 48-volt belt/starter generator.

The DJ underwent surgery for bowel cancer and wants to raise awareness of having a colostomy bag.

Older people who received smallpox vaccinations may yet have some immunity, researchers say. Healthy children and adults generally do not become severely ill.

It examined the years 2007 to 2017 when a now suspended surgeon was operating at Southmead Hospital.

Swallowing food was strangely difficult, and he was getting weaker by the day.

The renowned physicist reflects on whether civilisation, like us, exists in other galaxies.

Staff at a £14m recycling facility help manually sort through 85,000 tonnes of waste each year.

Efforts to protect these beautiful insects include driving electric tractors and hand-rearing them in a lab.

Rachel Hurst is a student at the University of East Anglia helping others to address their climate anxieties.