DUBAI/WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged Iranians to keep protesting and remember the names of those abusing them, saying help is on the way, as Iran’s clerical establishment pressed its crackdown against the biggest demonstrations in years.

LOS ANGELES, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Chart-topping K-pop boy band BTS announced on Tuesday it will embark on a concert tour starting in April after the release of its first new album in more than three years.

An Iranian official said about 2,000 people had been killed in the protests, the first time authorities have given an overall death toll from more than two weeks of nationwide unrest.

Hoedspruit — known as South Africa’s Safari Capital — is under siege. Across the park, impacts vary — and so does uncertainty over when the storm will finally pass.

Shortly before Minister Gayton McKenzie cancelled Gabrielle Goliath’s participation at the 2026 Venice Biennale because part of her selected artwork dealt with Gaza, the Goodman Gallery cancelled its relationship with the acclaimed artist.

Thousands of grade 1 and 8 pupils in Gauteng remain unplaced amid online system glitches, parental despair and district overloads — echoing national strains.

A modest dip in the Eastern Cape’s 2025 matric results has prompted education experts to warn that underlying language barriers, declining Bachelor’s passes and weaknesses earlier in the schooling pipeline may be contributing to deeper systemic problems.

WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – The U.S. government posted a $145 billion budget deficit for December, up 67% or $58 billion from a year earlier due to record outlays that were inflated by calendar shifts in benefit payments and receipts, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday.

Five-time major winner Brooks Koepka’s defection from LIV Golf marks the first significant indication that the breakaway Saudi-backed tour might be facing its own existential crisis.

With the Africa Cup of Nations semifinals around the corner, the top scorers of the 2025 edition will be hoping to add to their respective goal tallies while propelling their countries to the final.

Helen Zille announced on Monday that an internal DA investigation had found no evidence that party leader John Steenhuisen ‘misappropriated party funds’, but there are still unanswered questions.

WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – “Dilbert” comic strip creator Scott Adams, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump whose career flagged after a racist rant, died on Tuesday, his former wife said. He was 68.

A conversation about deadly mesh nets, crazy quotas, species falling off a cliff and daring solutions.

The matrics of 2025 in Mfuleni, Cape Town, have defied crime, fear and deep social challenges to pass their matric exams, offering fresh hope for a better future.