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Luxe announced his death to her 1.7 million Instagram followers, saying she was “heartbroken”.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a massive rollout of the Lenacapavir injectable drug.-

The investigating officer says David started receiving large amounts of money after the break-in.

Thulani Magagula says Ekurhuleni was aware of the issue involving the theft of cigarettes by EMPD

UK-registered, Egyptian-founded customer experience platform Tactful AI has raised $1 million in a pre-Series A funding round to expand its end-to-end, AI-driven customer service infrastructure built on agentic AI capabilities. The round was co-led by UAE-based venture capital firm Foras AI and investment firm M Empire. Deep-tech angel investors also participated, including Omar Gabr,...

Peter Magyar suspects there are plans to release a sex tape of him from August 2024.

A catalogue of incidents at the world’s most visited museum have placed museum bosses come under increasing scrutiny.

In its ruling, the court said an earlier decision to ban the Pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was “disproportionate.”

The 84-year-old mother of news anchor Savannah Guthrie disappeared from her Arizona home two weeks ago.

President Cyril Ramaphosa says the army will work with the police to fight organised crime and illegal mining.

Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab has staged several attacks in Kenya, prompting the border to be closed.

Search efforts are continuing for the missing passengers, who included children.

Madagascar’s disaster management says roads are inaccessible with trees uprooted, power poles down and ninety percent of roofs ripped off.

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem’s exit comes after files showed he appears to have exchanged hundreds of emails with Epstein.

Martin Lewis explains why now might be a good time to think about changing your bank account.

Boardwalk Mall is undergoing a large expansion, with the mall set to get padel courts and 5-a-side soccer facility.

Yuko Yamaguchi oversaw the feline character’s rise to to global icon status.

The families of the victims are seeking constitutional damages for the delays.  

Mbeki seeks an order that President Cyril Ramaphosa terminate Justice Sisi Khampepe’s appointment

For the first time in several years, electricity did not dominate the president’s address

It’s alleged that Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department specialised unit officers stole a truck in 2023

Captain Caelan Doris says Ireland cannot afford “passengers” as they bid to put the pain of their France defeat to bed against Italy.

Afcon 2027 will be held in June and July next year and reports the finals could be delayed are “totally unfounded”, says African football boss Patrice Motsepe.

Aryansh Sharma’s unbeaten 74 bolsters United Arab Emirates’s hopes of qualifying for the T20 World Cup Super 8s with a tense five-wicket win over Canada.

Red Bull’s advantage at the front of the Formula 1 field “has been really eye-opening for a lot of us,” says Mercedes driver George Russell.

Advice on how to respond to students questioning their birth gender has been updated. Here are the key changes

Ministers have released updated guidance on how schools and colleges in England should respond to students who are questioning their birth gender. How is it different to the previous Department for Education (DfE) guidance, released under the Conservatives in 2023?

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The long-talked-about 2026 SASSA unemployment grant will finally go ahead, confirms President Ramaphosa at SONA. But how much will it cost?

The South African Special Task Force takes on some of the best law enforcement agencies from around the world at the UAE SWAT challenge.

Find out what the latest weather forecast from the SA Weather Service means for your region on 14 February 2026

Police launch probe into graphic video of suspected e-hailing driver murder, urge public not to share footage

Floodwaters have submerged more than 100 000 hectares, destroying crops and displacing families.

As the housing market stalls, Zillow’s CEO sees AI as “an ingredient rather than a threat” that can both help the company protect its turf and reinvent how people search for homes.

Remember when dropping a proxy into your torrent client felt like a secret handshake? In 2026 streaming giants block whole IP ranges, ISPs throttle P2P, and privacy rules keep shifting. That climate turns a VPN-plus-SOCKS5 bundle from nicety to necessity. The proxy speeds one app—qBittorrent or your scraper—while the VPN tunnel shields everything else. Only […]

Hong Kong, SAR Central District — BDIC, Blockchain Deposit Insurance Corporation, a crypto insurance provider, today announced the commercial launch of AgentCover Pro, a first-of-its-kind crypto insurance product specifically engineered to protect payments executed by agentic AI systems. Comments from the company detailed how AgentCover Pro delivers modular coverage across agent failures,...

These were the five biggest stories in South Africa’s transport industry this week.

Backlog drops below 7.3m for first time since 2023 in England, but concern over long A&E waits.