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The Australian government says it is “stunned” by the UN body’s recommendation and will oppose it.

Learn what’s at stake as voters head to the polls to choose a new leader for New York City.

Two men accused of the murder of a 21-year-old Paul Roux farm manager Brandin Horner are expected to apply for bail in the Senekal Magistrate’s  Court in the Free State on Tuesday.

Gauteng Premier David Makhura says more health care workers are needed in the province. Makhura says all health care personnel from the now closed Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Hospital, have been deployed to different health facilities across the province.

The five arrested so far after the ski boat containing cocaine was pulled over are due in court again on Thursday. One person of interest to the police is still at large.

A Bloemfontein pastor was arrested and accused of the rape of a woman he hired to babysit his child.

From a vantage point more than 50 stories high, Ali Mansour looks down on the islands he helped build nearly two decades ago. “It was a great challenge,” he says. “A (once-in-a) lifetime experience.”

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Carl Nassib becomes the first active NFL player to come out as gay.

The video shows an unmanned aircraft bursting into flames as the Israeli plane downs it with a laser.

The Limetree Bay oil refinery in St. Croix said it would close indefinitely, citing “severe financial constraints” a month after the Environmental Protection Agency ordered an emergency shutdown of the plant, calling it an “imminent and substantial endangerment” to public health on the island.

Ethiopians took to the polls in what is seen as PM Abiy Ahmed’s biggest electoral test since taking power in 2018.

The UN says 350,000 people are living in famine conditions after eight months of war in the region.

The Gambia’s national football squad boycotts a meeting with the country’s President Adama Barrow in a row over bonuses.

The Chad government has accused the Central African Republic of killing six of its soldiers in an attack on an outpost in the south of the country.

The founder of a Michelin-star restaurant says he had to reduce opening hours to manage shortages.

A senior employee wrote on Twitter that the extra holiday was to deal with “collective burnout”.

The EU’s data protection agencies on Monday called for an outright ban on using artificial intelligence to identify people in public places, pointing to the “extremely high” risks to privacy.

Once complete, it will be one of the largest distribution centres in Africa.

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa wants party members to push for investment in local governments in the run-up to this year’s municipal elections.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has called on Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi and law enforcement agencies to update Parliament on the progress of investigations into how the Bushiris escaped from South Africa.

‘This would be a very serious disincentive to investment,’ says Thabo Mbeki in a document arguing that the ANC should not proceed with the Constitutional amendment of section 25

ANC president, Cyril Ramaphosa has condemned the violence that broke out during a branch general meeting of the party in Lephalele in the Waterberg region of Limpopo.

Djokovic has won seven of the last 11 Slams as he ramps up his assault on the record of 20 majors held jointly by Federer and Nadal.

The Danes knew they had to beat Russia by two goals and hope leaders Belgium saw off Finland in Saint Petersburg to snatch second place in Group B despite opening with two defeats.

Watch all the goals, celebrations and reaction from Denmark’s emotional 4-1 victory over Russia on a frantic night in Copenhagen.

In the penultimate over before lunch the left-arm spinner removed Kieran Powell, Jason Holder and Joshua da Silva in successive deliveries to join fast bowler Geoff Griffen, who achieved the feat at Lord’s in 1960, in the record books.

Divisive terms like “white privilege” do not help and promote disharmony, the committee chairman says.

Commons committee says term ‘fails to acknowledge damaged caused by other forms of discrimination’

In one of the most provocative sections of the Government’s landmark report on racial disparity this year, it argued that education has been the single most emphatic success story of the British ethnic minority experience.

The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities (CRED) report stated that...

Conservative-dominated committee warns schools could be breaking the law by promoting terms like ‘white privilege’

White working-class pupils have been let down by decades of neglect in the English education system, according to a controversial MPs’ report which warns that schools could be breaking the law by promoting “divisive” terminology like “white privilege”.

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Gary Webster, who went to Treloar College, was part of a cohort of 89 children, less than a quarter of whom are still alive

A man who was one of scores of pupils infected with contaminated blood products at a specialist boarding school has told a public inquiry neither he nor his parents were told that he was taking part in medical trials.

Out of 89 haemophiliac children who attended Treloar...

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Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) added acclaimed filmmaker Steven Spielberg to its roster with a joint announcement on Monday of a deal for his Amblin Partners production company to supply multiple movies a year for several years.

The lads from Richmond have an uphill battle to climb in season 2 of Apple TV+’s “Ted Lasso,” but Ted might know someone who can maybe whip them into shape … Led Tasso.

The Foo Fighters rocked Madison Square Garden on Sunday night, with unexpected guest Dave Chappelle.

George Clooney, Kerry Washington, Don Cheadle and more stars hope to make Hollywood more inclusive by exposing students to entertainment industry jobs during high school.

Since the dawn of time, clocks have shaped our behaviour and values. They are embedded in almost every aspect of modern life, from the time on your smartphone to the atomic clocks that underpin GPS. Anand Jagatia talks to horologist David Rooney about his new book, which tells the history of civilisation in twelve clocks

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The country’s infections, the worst in south-east Asia, have passed two million

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Indonesian health authorities are battling a new surge in coronavirus infections, as the National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) reported the highest one-day total, with 14,535 cases confirmed in the 24 hours to Monday.

Daily case totals are reaching levels last seen in...

Even those who supported the F.D.A.’s approval of the controversial new drug said authorizing it for anyone with Alzheimer’s disease was much too broad.

The increase points to the program’s growing role not just as a safety net, but also as a foundation of U.S. health coverage.

Many adults under 40 surveyed by researchers expressed distrust of the vaccines, fear of side effects or skepticism about the need for the shots.

Much of the country is moving past the pandemic. But many people still can’t, and I know exactly how that feels.

Shenzhou-12 docked with the new Tiangong space station as part of China’s longest crewed mission to date.

China successfully launches the Shenzhou-12 capsule, containing crew for the country’s new space station.

A new study suggests killer whales may socialise with each other based on age and gender.

Thai has dedicated his life to educating the Vietnamese public about pangolin conservation.