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Mariusz Malon says Bambie Thug’s Eurovision look is ‘amazing’ and ‘starts conversations’.

How do they work across the UK, what can I borrow and when do I have to start paying it back?

The 21-year-old sailing solo around Great Britain and Ireland to raise mental health awareness.

A power firm says it is not aware of any safety incidents involving people hanging items on lampposts.

Justice Yvonne Mokgoro hailed as an icon: SAWLA

This is the first general election since India ended the special status of Kashmir in 2019.

Nicanor Boluarte’s arrest comes weeks after President Dina Boluarte’s home was raided over corruption allegations.

The Biden administration is finally wrapping up its review of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports. It will keep those tariffs, and add more on things like electric vehicles.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken released a report that’s highly critical of the way Israel is carrying out its war in Gaza — but it doesn’t say Israel has broken the rules for using U.S. weapons.

Mozambique’s army is fighting Islamist insurgents who launched a major attack on the northern town of Macomia on Friday morning, President Filipe Nyusi said in a televised address.

The electoral body says the ex-president’s conviction for contempt of court means he should be barred.

Chadian soldiers deployed on Friday in large numbers across several districts of the capital after late-night celebrations marked the presidential election victory of junta leader General Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno.

African heads of state meeting in Kenya on Thursday vowed to triple production and distribution of certified-quality organic and inorganic fertilisers by 2034.

Scientists are creating hardier crops by cross-breeding wild varities and tweaking crop genes.

More couples are choosing to get married on a weekday in order to save money.

Rod Ismay denies deleting emails about a ‘back door’ in Horizon

A 3-level penthouse in South Africa’s richest area comes with its own glass elevator.

The remission of sentence granted to former President, Jacob Zuma reduced his sentence.

ANC will emerge victorious in upcoming elections: Ramaphosa

Constitution makes no distinction between courts that impose sentences

Steenhuisen says the move by the SABC not to air the DA’s advertisement is politically motivated.

London Pulse keep the pressure up Netball Super League leaders Manchester Thunder with a gritty 58-53 win over Surrey Storm.

Conor Benn is provisionally suspended from fighting again after successful appeals by UK Anti-Doping (Ukad) and the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC).

It seems that Cape Town Spurs’ fate of returning to the National First Division is gradually becoming more certain as their struggle in the DStv Premiership persists after their goalless draw against SuperSport United on Friday.

Exclusive: Reversal comes after backlash from students and writers including Booker winner Bernadine Evaristo

Goldsmiths University in London will keep its Black British literature course open after a backlash from students and writers including the Booker prize-winner Bernardine Evaristo.

The decision is a reversal after the announcement in April that the master’s degree in Black British...

Soapie fans are trolling former ‘Generations: The Legacy’ actor and musician Duma Mnqobi’s latest single, Bazothini Abantu’.

Gareth Cliff has called ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula a ‘hypocrite’ after he arrived in the Inanda township in a R3 million G-Wagon.

The Kiffness is back with another quirky parody poking fun at the ‘faux outrage’ to the DA’s burning flag advert…

Cats may cry at night due to loneliness, seeking attention, hunger, medical issues, or changes in their environment.

The memorial service would’ve been better hosted at a venue like Rhema Bible Church as Joburg Theatre couldn’t contain the number of people in attendance.

The Kiffness joined the DA in turning up the heat even more on the ANC with his parody song ‘Flag is Burning’.

The Blacklist Season 10 delivers all the action and intrigue that the nine preceding instalments have, and in many ways, there’s a lot more to the final season.

Aurora borealis sightings from England’s north-east coast to Berkshire while solar flares thought to be associated with sunspot 16 times diameter of Earth

The northern lights have lit up the night sky with rare sightings across the UK and Europe.

The aurora borealis has been spotted in Whitley Bay on the north-east coast; Essex; Cambridgeshire; and Wokingham in Berkshire.

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In a revolutionary approach, scientists are hoping that modifying the marsupial’s genes to resist cane toads’ toxin will save it from extinction

In a laboratory in the University of Melbourne earlier this year, PhD student Pierre Ibri was running an experiment that could prove to be a critical step in an audacious plan to save Australia’s endangered northern quoll.

In plastic trays were groups...

New South Africa-bound Tiggo 9 plug-in hybrid SUV has a claimed range of 1 400km.

Fellow KTM rider Acosta is 10 points ahead of Binder in the premier class world championship.

Five babies have died from the infection amid a rise in cases in the UK.

Tanya Shepherd has received pioneering blood treatment to prevent her body rejecting her new hands.

Omnivat, a renewable energy startup founded by five University of Cape Town graduates, are the runners-up of prestigious energy innovation competition backed by SA billionaire Patrice Motsepe.

South Africa will provide a new timeline for the shutdown of coal-fired power plants in a bid to secure about $2.6 billion or R48 billion in climate finance.

Maize output in Zimbabwe will drop by almost three-quarters this year as the nation experiences its worst drought in four decades, according to the government.

Sperm whales, the largest of the toothed whales, communicate using bursts of clicking noises – called codas – sounding a bit like Morse code.