Pressure rose on Friday on former French culture minister Jack Lang to resign as president of the Arab World Institute over his ties to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, after he was summoned to the foreign ministry to discuss the matter.

As the parents of 17-year-old Trystan Pidoux, who died in the bar fire at the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana, prepared to bury their son, they waited for prosecutors to act on their request for an autopsy.

A senior Russian military officer, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alexeyev, was rushed to hospital after being shot in Moscow on Friday, investigators said, in the latest of a series of attacks on top military officials.

Once a site of repression and decay, Joburg’s historic Drill Hall is being reclaimed by artists who are filling its scarred walls with greenery, recycled art and a quiet act of healing.

Iran and the United States started high-stakes negotiations on Friday to try to overcome sharp differences over Tehran’s nuclear programme, with Oman shuttling between the sides, but a dispute over widening the agenda risks derailing diplomacy and triggering another Middle East conflict.

Drawing a line between the Terreiro do Paço in Lisbon and a beloved restaurant in central Cape Town, I find myself at a confluence of history, rugby and Other Person’s Plate Envy.

I bought a chunky plastic bag of Southern fried chicken, pre-cooked, to be finished in an air fryer, chop-chop. Then I read the small print.

It saddens me to think that my grandchildren, if I ever have grandchildren, will not know the simple pleasure of paging through a newspaper until their fingers are stained with printer’s ink.

Irish comedian and talk show host Graham Norton shared an awkward experience he had during a house viewing in Cape Town.