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The star tells BBC 6 Music about working with Dave Grohl and the true story behind his lost memoirs.

Blackfriars, Waterloo, Golden Jubilee, Westminster and Lambeth bridges are all added to the artwork.

A cash-in-transit van has been bombed, a security guard has been killed and three people have been injured in a robbery in Gugulethu, Cape Town.

In a statement, security company SBV Services announced a reward of R1 million for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the robbers.

Power utility Eskom says says it is not planning any power cuts for Wednesday after the country’s generation capacity improved.

It is day three of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) interviews for shortlisted candidates to fill various vacancies within the judiciary.

La Soufriere, on the island of St Vincent, has been erupting for the past five days.

Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) seized the ship as officials in the country seek compensation for damage done to the canal.

The blaze in Niamey engulfed straw classrooms and those in the nursery could not escape.

Restrictions to battle the pandemic offer ideal cover for authoritarian regimes to undermine and clamp down on opposition parties

Former Leicester City forward Ahmed Musa completes a short-term deal to play for Nigerian league side Kano Pillars.

South Africa’s Busiswa Gqulu is using her songs and poetry to overcome gender barriers in the music industry.

Zweli Mkhize made the comments a day after the government suspended the rollout of J&J’s vaccine.

The country’s government imprinted its authority indelibly on the country’s technology industry in the span of a few days.

Current level of infrastructure investment nowhere near the National Development Plan’s 10% target – Industry Insight.

Ace Magashule tells provinces to add those accused, but not charged, to step-aside list

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has welcomed today’s ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeal confirming that former President Jacob Zuma must pay back the money spent by the State on his personal legal costs.

Under the new Political Party Funding Act, all political parties taking part in elections must now declare their donations above R100 000.

The court said the ‘funding tap’ for Zuma’s private legal matters had been turned on unlawfully

The Bulls have allowed their Springbok Marcel van der Merwe to join French club La Rochelle on a short-term deal.

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel said reaching the Champions League semi-finals for the first time since 2014 is a “very big achievement”.

SA Rugby has proposed a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for vaccines so that fans can attend British and Irish Lions tour matches.

Musida is hosting a virtual running event on Thursday to highlight wellbeing of the mind and raise funds for the SA Depression and Anxiety Group.

A group of Ndebele language and cultural organisations are marching to the SABC and department of communications offices today against the relocation of Ikwekwezi FM from Pretoria to Auckland Park, Johannesburg.

Sasol and project partner Toyota will install hydrogen refuelling infrastructure along the N3 highway connecting Johannesburg and Durban, CEO Fleetwood Grobler said in a statement on Wednesday.

VPN provider Surfshark has analysed the recently discovered Facebook data leak containing the data of 533 million users, and found that over 14 million of the leaked profiles were South African.

The venture capital firm says with the ongoing cyber threats to businesses, a safer and more secure e-mail ecosystem has been forged with the security start-up.

It felt like the itch was coming from somehow under her skin. The cause ended up being even deeper.

Occupations in the industry are increasingly in demand because of an aging population and longer life spans.

Through open-records laws, Times reporters have acquired data on coronavirus cases that revealed racial inequalities, pinpointed hot spots and uncovered other critical facts.

People who tended to be sedentary were far more likely to be hospitalized, and to die, from Covid than those who exercised regularly.

Some rare footage of two wild pandas having a fierce fight has been captured by researchers in China.

The BBC speaks to the woman who, as a child, witnessed Yuri Gagarin’s return to Earth 60 years ago.

She told the BBC she was concerned about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on attendance at COP26.