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Buffy and Ted Lasso star Anthony Head dies at 72
The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.
FRIDAY, 05 JUNE 2026, 18:05

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The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.

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Affected models require a software update for the reversing camera
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Paul Quinn is jailed over the 2003 attack in Salford for which Andrew Malkinson served 17 years.

South Africa
Sibiya told the commission that he used a state-issued cellphone to take photographs.

South Africa
Concerns have been growing regarding student accommodation crisis’s linked to NSFAS funding

South Africa
The raid is part of a probe linked t looting of about R2 billion from Thembisa Hospital.

South Africa
As artificial intelligence moves rapidly from experimentation into core business operations, organisations are rushing to deploy AI tools across customer service, operations and internal workflows. But in the race to adopt the technology, many companies are overlooking a critical question: Who actually owns the intellectual property created by these systems? Dawood Patel, CEO of Helm, […]

World
The men are sentenced to 47 months each for stealing the 2,500-year-old Romanian Coțofenești helmet.

World
The bans for Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are confirmed by the Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin.

World
A man suspected of murdering an 11-year-old girl had previously been identified as a potential child molester, records show.

World
Thomas Weir Pauken II, 50, knowingly worked with people employed by the Chinese government for years.

Africa
There are now 380 confirmed cases of Ebola in DR Congo, dramatically scaled back from initial estimates of suspected cases.

Africa
He follows the late great Papa Wemba in becoming a knight of the National Order of the Leopard.

Africa
Only two survived after trekking more than 50km (30 miles) across the desert to alert the authorities.

Africa
At the centre of it is London mining investor INIHC’s arbitration battle over the billion-dollar Black Volta gold project

Business
The Bureau of Labor Statistics says new jobs were created in the leisure and hospitality sectors.

Business
Despite the Iran war, inflation and debt fears, US markets keep hitting record highs, fueled largely by AI. BBC’s Samira Hussain looks into whether that bubble will burst.
Business
Business

Politics
Parliament’s ad hoc committee defended the evidence leaders’ draft report after suspended Police Minister Senzo Mchunu objected to the findings that he dismantled the PKTT without consultation and for nefarious reasons

Politics
Ntshavheni has reiterated that no shutdown will be taking place in the country on the 30th of June

Politics
He is testifying before the Madlanga Commission in Pretoria.
Politics
KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli has dismissed rumours of a Cabinet reshuffle in his government of provincial unity as “premature”, following the removal of the National Freedom Party’s Mbali Shinga from the provincial legislature.

Sport
Title favourite Alexander Zverev is one win away from an elusive first Grand Slam title after beating Jakub Mensik in the French Open semi-finals.

Sport
Kaizer Chiefs are reportedly looking to sign Orlando Pirates midfielder Kabelo Dlamini in the coming weeks once he becomes a free agent.

Sport
Dobson has defended Leinster assistant Jacques Nienaber, dismissing the criticism aimed at the double World Cup winner as incomprehensible.

Sport
With several host cities in peak thunderstorm season there is a high chance that some World Cup games could be disrupted. Here is how and why.
Education
The appointment of Ayanna Howard, a roboticist, was a departure for the top-ranked H.B.C.U., which has a liberal arts focus.

Education
Claims of discrimination at UCLA and Yale show how laws meant to foster inclusion are being used for the opposite
The Department of Justice’s civil rights division was once known as the crown jewel of the agency, but under Trump it has become just another tool of this administration’s politicized and racialized attacks targeting Black, Latino and other people of color. The latest examples...
Education
[UCT] In June 2019, Professor Salome Maswime took a leap of faith when she and her husband, Gundo Vhusani Maswime, packed their two young sons, Farai and Taurai, into a car and left Johannesburg. Professor Maswime came to the University of Cape Town (UCT) to assume the newly created position of head of Global Surgery. At the time she was a team of one, but her mandate was simple: dream big and...
Education
[UCT] The University of Cape Town (UCT) Employment Equity Cluster 10 Collective (EEC 10) recently hosted a colloquium in commemoration of Africa Month. This to facilitate deep conversation and reflection on how institutional structures, systems and practices enable or constrain a more just, inclusive and future-oriented research ecosystem.
Lifestyle
Lifestyle

Lifestyle
Hawks cop Karl Sander wants to spend the more than half a million rand raised through a BackaBuddy campaign on more than a coffee machine.
Lifestyle

Entertainment
Alert witnesses aided in the arrest of the cousins after recording the registration number of the car they were travelling in.

Entertainment
The Bulls coach said they had learned from their two defeats to Glasgow earlier in the season, ahead of their URC semifinal.

Entertainment
Omar cooperated after an arrest threat, handing CCTV footage to the SIU as it traced assets linked to Maumela, including those tied to corruption at Tembisa Hospital and multiple vehicle transfers.

Entertainment
Clicks opened its 1 000th store during the period.
Science/Tech
NASA ordered astronauts on the International Space Station to shelter in their spacecraft and prepare for possible evacuation after a worsening air leak in the Russian Zvezda service module’s transfer tunnel. The Guardian reports: The four astronauts of NASA’s Crew-12 mission on the station — two US astronauts, a French astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut — received orders from NASA mission...

Science/Tech
Former DOGE members and Elon Musk allies are backing a startup aimed at using AI to apply “learnings” from DOGE to the private sector.

Science/Tech
Team now plans to see if they can use yeast strains harvested from Ötzi the Iceman to brew beer too
Scientists have baked a sourdough loaf of bread using yeast strains harvested from a 5,000-year-old mummy and now plan to see if they can use them to brew beer too.
The yeast came from Ötzi the Iceman, a famous corpse remarkably preserved by being frozen in Alpine ice near the Italy-Austria...

Science/Tech
Microsoft’s AI products aren’t selling and Github’s been plagued with troubles. WIRED spoke with VP Scott Hanselman about whether the company is in catch-up mode.
Motoring
Motoring
Motoring
Motoring
Health
News of Crown Princess Mette-Marit’s worsening condition comes as a number of scandals have plunged the royal family into a deep crisis.

Health
The national group was set up to help tackle loneliness, after a man died from suicide.

Health
A quarter of all babies in England are now delivered by emergency caesarean operations, BBC analysis shows – marking a significant rise over the last five years.
Health
Mining has been the lifeblood of this remote Congolese hill town for decades. Now, it is fueling the spread of a devastating outbreak.