South Africa has a new Copyright Amendment Bill that has yet to be signed into law. However, among the groups that need reform of the copyright law are musicians, who need protection from exploitation by collecting societies.

Anti-corruption directorate boss Andrea Johnson has dug in her heels and insisted to the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry that complaints against Crime Intelligence officers, referred to her office by a politician, point to State Capture. She has essentially denied accusations that the case is part of a plot to impede certain investigations.

Eight months after crossing the finish line, Soweto Marathon winners may finally receive some of their long-overdue prize money.

In nearly 25 years as a funeral director, Gautier Caton has never experienced anything like France’s record-breaking late-June heatwave, when he rented five refrigerated containers to store bodies arriving at up to three times the normal rate.

Joe Schmidt would have liked to hand over a fully rebuilt Wallabies side to Les Kiss but instead the incoming coach will find a similar set of problems to the ones that greeted the New Zealander two years ago.

Fifteen Indian workers were feared trapped on Tuesday after a blast caused by a suspected gas leak in a tunnel at a hydroelectric project in the rugged state of Sikkim killed ten, authorities said.

In pre-dawn darkness, Ibtisam Al-Helou leaves her tent on Gaza’s seafront on a daily search for fresh water. The Mediterranean lies only a few steps away, but the water she needs to cook, drink and wash will mean a trek across Gaza City.