
‘You can’t cut costs with animal welfare’: The British zoos fighting for survival
BBC research finds 40% of accredited zoos and aquariums raised financial concerns since 2022.
TUESDAY, 03 FEBRUARY 2026, 07:01

BBC research finds 40% of accredited zoos and aquariums raised financial concerns since 2022.

Despite some recent cordiality, the Colombian and Americans leaders have long traded barbs and accusations.

The decision follows bipartisan push for more accountablility after two US citizens were shot and killed by federal immigration officers in Minnesota.

The former duchess contacted the disgraced financier for business advice weeks before his release, disclosed documents appear to show.

Jeremy Jacquet will join Liverpool for £60m from Rennes in the summer – but why are the Reds signing him?

Could West Ham, Burnley or Wolves defy the odds and secure Premier League survival?

England and Wales will face each other in a potential pool decider at the 2027 Men’s Rugby World Cup on 16 October in Sydney.

There are calls for the former prince to testify on what he knew about Jeffrey Epstein’s activities – but emails show multiple requests by US authorities in the past.

Emma Raducanu records her first win since out-of-sorts Australian Open performance and split from coach Francis Roig.

Nottingham Forest sign defender Luca Netz from Borussia Monchengladbach on a four-and-a-half-year contract.
About a week ago, Daily Maverick revealed how a personal trainer offering his services at a Cape Town gym was a fugitive wanted by Romania for drug trafficking. While police have since kept quiet on that case, an alleged drug dealer has been deported to the UK and a fraud suspect to China.
In November 2025, six weeks after the Gauteng Division of the High Court in Pretoria had declared a resounding victory for conservationist Fred Daniel in his decades-long legal battle with former deputy president David Mabuza, the state attorney announced its intention to appeal against the decision. But now, among other inconsistencies, Daily Maverick’s reporting has revealed that the first...
In Part 1 of this gripping whodunnit, we’ve established that the South African government has helped murder the film industry. Now, we try to figure out what can be done to bring it back from the dead.

An election for a state Senate seat has unnerved Republicans, after the Democratic candidate delivered a surprise win.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Johannesburg is documenting the lives of Domitilla and Danny Hyams, the founders of the NGO Little Eden, who might become the city’s first saints.
In 2023, I reported on individuals from Bulgaria, wanted in other countries over crime issues, who may be in Cape Town, South Africa. Now it turns out that one of them, Stanislav Stamenov, wanted by Romania for alleged drug trafficking, has indeed been in the South African city – offering personal training services at a Virgin Active gym in a posh suburb.
He insisted that nature deserves protection because it exists, not because it’s useful to us. Each being is an end in itself.
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 (Reuters) – U.S. immigration officials have quarantined some migrants and halted “all movement” after two measles cases were confirmed among detainees at its facility in south Texas, the Department of Homeland Security said on Monday.