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Every meal deserves a happy ending. I love to serve these decadent desserts, whether sweet or savoury, to my guests, and they never disappoint. This creamy dessert has its origins in Italy. It’s light and delicate and looks and tastes wonderful with a topping of seasonal fruit.

Mohammad Afif was a long-time media advisor to Hezbollah’s former secretary general Hassan Nasrallah.

Almost 5% of the world’s carbon emissions come from the healthcare sector. Rethinking how hospitals run and deal with waste can get this figure down. But South Africa’s healthcare workers say regulations are stopping them from doing this – and so playing their part in slowing climate change.

The national Department of Public Works will forge ahead with evicting residents who have illegally occupied two buildings in Cape Town.

An amplified reliance on the South African National Defence Force for internal support to other government departments places significant strain on the force to maintain high levels of defence readiness.

A 38-year-old shop owner who raped a 10-year-old girl, who bought items at his shop in Phalaborwa, Limpopo, has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Once confined to rectangular screens, chirpy plumber Mario and pointy-eared Princess Zelda are popping up in theme parks and toy stores as Nintendo goes all out to win non-gamer fans.

Trump has pledged to ‘save TikTok’ despite leading the charge to ban the Chinese-owned app during his first term.

“We used to hate elephants a lot,” Kenyan farmer Charity Mwangome says, pausing from her work under the shade of a baobab tree.

Citrus growers in South Africa are among the businesses most nervous that duty- and quota-free exports to the United States could be scrapped next year when Donald Trump returns to the White House.

Fiscal rules, while perhaps valuable for promoting fiscal stability, do not inherently generate economic growth, says Johan Fourie.

President Cyril Ramaphosa was forced to move his address to the nation to Friday evening because the government had been struggling to formulate a concrete response to the poisoned food crisis.

While Cheslin Kolbe deservedly earned all the plaudits, Springbok inside centre Damian de Allende showed again why he is one of the most underestimated players in world rugby.

Florida’s star president, Ben Sasse, was among the best paid university presidents ever. He promised a conservative overhaul, but then he resigned, leaving controversy and an embarrassing drop in the U.S. News rankings.

Her unusual approach to building bridges between her wealthy campus and its beleaguered hometown led to a Supreme Court case and a faculty revolt.

The national competition, which is fast rising in popularity, demands feats of memorization that make the National Spelling Bee look like a game of tic-tac-toe.

Chances of intelligent life emerging in our Universe “and in any hypothetical ones beyond it” can be estimated by a new theoretical model, reports the Royal Astronomical Society. Since stars are a precondition for the emergence of life, the new research predicts that a typical observer [i.e., intelligent life] should experience a substantially larger density of dark energy than is seen in our...

A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.

The unidentified patient had recently returned from Africa, where the virus has caused a deadly epidemic, health officials said.

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for health secretary opposes fluoride in water, promotes unproven Covid therapies and has threatened to prosecute medical journals.

Governments around the globe are ploughing billions of dollars into fossil fuel subsidies to shelter citizens from higher energy costs, but that comes at a fiscal burden, creates inefficiencies.

At its core, climate finance is about how we pay for climate action – both reducing emissions and adapting to climate impacts. But this isn’t just about distant financial transactions. Climate finance affects our daily lives in countless ways, say the authors.

Children from East Africa, where heatwaves and floods have shuttered schools in recent months, are pushing for world leaders to protect their education – and their future – at the United Nations COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan.

Climate change is a silent killer, and the WHO has warned that urgent action is “a matter of life and death”.