A major Chinese car brand, which operates in South Africa, met its full-year global sales target and likely surpassed Tesla to become the world.s largest electric-vehicle maker in 2025.

Baidu’s artificial-intelligence chip unit has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering, kicking off what’s expected to be a busy year for listings by companies backing China’s technological ambitions.

Let’s be honest: January isn’t the time for harsh goals or impossible reinventions. It’s for slow mornings, softer starts, and setting yourself up for a year that flows better.

Home Affairs is hoping to rapidly expand the number of bank branches arouns South Africa offering smart ID and passport application services.

XRP holders are entering a familiar phase, but under very different conditions. Despite regulatory clarity, ETF approvals, and renewed institutional interest, XRP has spent recent weeks moving sideways between $1.80 and $1.86. For a token once associated with explosive upside, this range-bound behavior has forced investors to reassess where near-term growth will come from. Rather […]

New year plant hunt shows rising temperatures are shifting natural cycles of wildflowers such as daisies

Daisies and dandelions are among hundreds of native plant species blooming in the UK, in what scientists have called a “visible signal” of climate breakdown disrupting the natural world.

A Met Office analysis of data from the annual new year’s plant hunt over the past nine years found an...

9,500-year-old pyre uncovered in Malawi offers rare insight into rituals of ancient African hunter-gatherer groups

A cremation pyre built about 9,500 years ago has been discovered in Africa, offering a fresh glimpse into the complexity of ancient hunter-gatherer communities.

Researchers say the pyre, discovered in a rock shelter at the foot of Mount Hora in northern Malawi, is thought to be the...

Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we examine how the White House’s war on vaccines has left the future of a key technology uncertain and up for grabs

The late scientist and thinker Donald Braben argued that 20th-century breakthroughs arose from scientists being free to pursue bold ideas without pressure for quick results or rigid...

Peter Foreshaw Brookes says worry about falling sperm counts is misplaced

The Italian “demographic winter” has a number of causes, but rising male biological infertility is not one (A child is born: Italians celebrate village’s first baby in 30 years, 26 December).

A lot of worry about falling sperm counts has been generated by some studies, but a more recent meta‑analysis found, through...

Exclusive: Identifying teenagers at risk could help prevent organ damage, strokes and heart attacks in early adulthood, doctors say

Leading doctors have called for a national UK programme to monitor schoolchildren for high blood pressure amid concerns that rising rates in adolescents will increase cases of organ damage, strokes and heart attacks.

Rates of high blood pressure have nearly doubled...

South Africans are increasingly opting for digital wallet and virtual card payments over swiping or tapping physical bank cards.

Industry research consistently shows that sponsored articles are viewed as the most credible form of online advertising in South Africa.

Finnish authorities launched a criminal investigation and took control of a vessel suspected of causing damage to a telecommunications cable.

On-demand delivery services have increased their driver counts by thousands in 2025.

Hyperliquid experienced an explosive run this year, pushing its token price to record levels above $59 in September. However, that momentum has sharply cooled as HYPE now trades around $26  as the broader market enters bear mode. For context, this drop represents a whopping 57% from its all-time high in just three months.  What once […]

Kevin Hall spent 21 years at the US National Institutes of Health and became known globally for his pioneering work on ultra-processed foods. In April he unexpectedly took early retirement, citing censorship under the Trump administration.

Now he has co-authored a book with the journalist Julia Belluz that aims to bust myths and challenge wellness orthodoxy on everything from weight loss and...

While GLP-1 drugs promise an easy fix, our bodies still need what they have always needed: healthy food and regular exercise

Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

If there has been a hot topic in health in 2025, it’s definitely been GLP-1s, colloquially referred to as “anti-obesity” jabs. These medications, taken weekly as an injection into the...

The Information Regulator has vowed to continue its efforts to block the publication of the 2025 matric results in the media.

Next head of Cern backs massive replacement for world’s largest machine to investigate mysteries of the universe

Mark Thomson, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge, has landed one of the most coveted jobs in global science. But it is hard not to wonder, when looked at from a certain angle, whether he has taken one for the team.

On 1 January, Thomson takes...