Chelsea’s Mudryk free to play after appeal against doping ban
Chelsea winger Mykhailo Mudryk has not played since November 2024 but can return after partially winning his appeal against a four-year doping ban.
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Puberty blockers trial can start recruiting children after judge rejects legal challenge
Campaigners brought the legal action to try and stop the trial going ahead.
Disgraced funeral boss who failed to bury bodies jailed for 20 years
Robert Bush also failed to cremate people and gave bereaved relatives the ashes of strangers.
New all-electric Mercedes-Benz GLA offers nearly 660km of range
Three electric models debut ahead of mild-hybrid variants due in 2027
Healey announces his first Budget will be on 28 October
The new chancellor pledged to move money and power out of Westminster, and into every postcode around Britain.
Burnham to revisit plan to curb jury trials
The prime minister says his “instinct” is to reverse plans by the last PM to limit jury trials in England and Wales.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: How hydroponic gardens plant seeds of innovation and women’s empowerment
Two South African high schools and women from their surrounding communities will learn to grow vegetables sustainably, thanks to a tailor-made solar-powered vertical hydroponic system that requires no soil, recycles water and is emission-free.
England and Wales on course for driest July on record
Met Office records indicate England and Wales are likely to have their driest July since records began 190 years ago.
EXPLAINER: How SA plans to bring home freedom fighters buried in Angola
Sport, arts and culture minister Gayton McKenzie announced that relatives can now register with the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) to help the government locate, identify and repatriate liberation fighters buried in Angola.
New MINI Countryman Edition enters final testing
Compact crossover is put through its paces in the Rocky Mountains ahead of launch
THE WEEKEND WRAP: Inside NSFAS boss spending spree, Madlanga Commission drama and a baby saved by blood donation
This edition of the Weekend Wrap covers one of the most dramatic moments of the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry, how Enoch Godongwana is moving to remake the Public Investment Corporation and a Daily Maverick investigation on a trail of invoices revealing how NSFAS splashed public funds on hotel stays for Administrator Hlengani Mathebula.
UK funeral director jailed for 20 years for deceiving families over cremations
Prosecutors said Robert Bush, who ran Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull, northern England, breached the trust of grieving families ‘on an almost industrial scale’
THE LOWLY NEWSPAPER MAN: Squirming Andrea Johnson’s Madlanga grilling gave voyeurism an unsettling edge
The voyeurism was unsettling not because of who she is, but what she is and what she has been. Her very deliberate actions were in support of a cause that she swore she would oppose and spent about 30 years fighting as an ace prosecutor.
Why women’s football is first casualty of Fifa plans
Fifa’s president Gianni Infantino’s plans will make women’s football “the first casualties” according to former England defender Anita Asante.
Chelsea fined £10m for breaching agent rules
Chelsea are fined £10m by the Football Association for breaching rules relating to payments to agents between 2009 and 2022.
WATCH | Broos reflects on lonely moments in emotional Bafana farewell
Hugo Broos has bid farewell to Bafana Bafana and South Africa
F1 rules out second Las Vegas race amid Middle East uncertainty
Formula One will not double down on Las Vegas should it need to change the race schedule at the end of the season due to the ongoing war in Iran.
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Africa’s off-grid solar sector courts investors with landmark deals
The test is whether more institutional investors will back a pay-as-you-go business model on a commercial scale
RADICAL RETHINK: Commonwealth Games face reinvention or decline as Africa and Asia rise
The continued relevance of the Commonwealth Games may lie not in becoming a smaller version of itself, but a celebration of the cultures and the youth that define the Commonwealth.