The Johannesburg magistrate’s court postponed the bail hearing of the man accused of orchestrating the murder of entertainer DJ Warras after ordering that CCTV footage allegedly capturing the shooting be presented in court.
The South African Weather Service has issued warnings of disruptive rain, which may lead to flooding in parts of Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and KwaZulu-Natal, where severe thunderstorms are also expected.
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A criminal complaint filed by two former employees of veteran Spanish singer Julio Iglesias accuses him of “human trafficking” and sexual crimes, according to advocacy groups.
Dozens of Iranians crossed the border into Turkey on Wednesday, as authorities in Iran crack down on one of the biggest ever waves of protest against the Islamic Republic’s clerical rule. US President Donald Trump urged Iranians on Tuesday to keep protesting, saying help is on the way.
Nigeria has hired a US lobbying firm to help maintain US support and counter what it has called misinformation by Christian Evangelical groups and other US lobbyists about what its government is doing to protect Christians in the country.
Yeshiva College achieved something very special. It achieved a 100% pass rate, 100% university exemption, and 4.4 distinctions per student in the 2025 matric exams.
Watch amateur tennis player beat men’s world number two Jannik Sinner and women’s world number 117 Joanna Garland to earn A$1m (£496,835) in Australian Open’s new Million Dollar One Point Slam.
[Premium Times] The 2025 agreement reached on 23 December replaced the 2009 FG-ASUU agreement and marked an end to a 16-year dispute between the government and the academics.
[Capital FM] Nairobi — Chuka University’s Faculty of Law has yet to complete its licence renewal despite paying the required fees following the expiry of its mandate on December 10, 2025.
[Scrolla] Government leaders visit Northern Lights Special School and find safety staff and transport problems affecting children with physical disabilities. Officials promise help after school raises concerns about break ins, lack of nurses, therapists and reliable learner transport.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once told an audience that he views local PC hardware the same way he views a 100-year-old electric generator he saw in a brewery museum — as a relic of a pre-grid era, destined to be replaced by centralized utilities that users simply rent rather than own. The anecdote, shared at a talk a few years ago, positioned Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as the...
As post-quantum transition expectations accelerate, many enterprises still lack a clear answer to a critical question: which systems create the greatest long-term exposure when today’s encryption approaches reach the end of their usable life. Qryptonic LLC today announced the launch of Q-Scout 26, an enterprise assessment platform designed to autonomously inventory cryptographic usage and...
Matthew McConaughey is taking a novel legal approach to combat unauthorized AI fakes: trademarking himself. From a report: Over the past several months, the “Interstellar” and “Magic Mike” star has had eight trademark applications approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office featuring him staring, smiling and talking. His attorneys said the trademarks are meant to stop AI apps or users from...
In a world where ICE agents are shooting US citizens on the street, the need for militias and extremist groups like the Proud Boys to support far-right interests has evaporated.
Doctors say they have achieved the previously impossible – restoring sight and preventing blindness in people with a rare but dangerous eye conditon called hypotony.