Joburg’s brief glow during the G20 is fading fast. Can a daily call to Mayor Dada Morero revive the city or will the ANC’s struggles and dysfunction continue to haunt Johannesburg?
The Egyptian Football Association says it has sent a formal letter to Fifa requesting that LGBTQ+ “Pride Match” celebrations in Seattle at one of their 2026 World Cup matches against Iran are cancelled.
From release by Leicester City to the Scottish Premiership’s top scorer, BBC Scotland charts the rise of Motherwell’s Afcon-bound striker, Tawanda Maswanhise.
The philanthropist known for giving to historically Black colleges and nonprofits working on climate change offered the news by updating an October blog post.
The government says it will fast-track immigration for U.S. H1-B visa holders and spend more than $1 billion to attract researchers from the United States and the rest of the world.
Report finds children at Mossbourne Victoria Park traumatised by disciplinary measures ‘designed to humiliate’
Staff at a London academy instilled a “climate of fear” among pupils, with a drive for academic success likely to have harmed vulnerable children including those with special needs, according to a damning independent investigation.
The report by Sir Alan Wood, one of the country’s...
[Ghanaian Times] Across Ghana’s education sector, a troubling contradiction has persisted for decades: policies are crafted with ambitious visions, yet the daily realities in schools often fail to reflect these intentions. Governments introduce new curricula, unveil bold reform packages, and announce investment plans–but in many basic and senior high schools, the physical and instructional...
Oscar-winner Judi Dench has said sight loss due to macular degeneration means she can no longer see faces clearly, calling the condition a “crusher” as she marked her 91st birthday on Tuesday. The veteran star of stage and screen, whose role as “M” in eight James Bond films shot her to global fame, has suffered […]
Pinduoduo in China, Shopee in Southeast Asia, and Meesho in India operate in markets that could hardly be more different — an upper-middle-income industrial state, a stitched-together archipelago of under-banked economies, and a country where three-quarters of retail is unorganized and e-commerce penetration sits at about 7% — yet all three have landed on the same business model. These...
The Pokemon Trading Card Game has quietly transformed into something its creators never intended: a speculative asset class dominated by adults hunting for profit while children struggle to find a single pack on store shelves. The resale market has climbed so high that the latest set, Phantasmal Flames, had a rare Charizard illustration valued at more than $800 before anyone had even pulled one...
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer is embroiled in a class action lawsuit after over 1300 women in the US suffered brain tumours believed to have been cause by Depo-Provera.