Elon Musk’s staggering wealth raises pressing questions about the state of democracy and economic inequality, about how concentrated power undermines democratic ideals, revealing a troubling reality where wealth dictates politics.

The dream of a record 25th Grand Slam remains alive for Novak Djokovic, who overcame Felix Auger-Aliassime in a thrilling five-set Wimbledon quarterfinal that lasted more than five hours.

This week marks a defining moment for South Africa’s basic education sector. We have eradicated the pit toilet backlog identified through the 2018 Sanitation Appropriate for Education initiative. Today, we can say with confidence that each of the 3,372 schools identified through that audit has been provided with safe and dignified sanitation facilities.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing party presented a draft bill on Wednesday to promote the repatriation of convicted foreign offenders and make it easier to strip them of Italian citizenship.

Pakistani rescuers scoured the waters around the presumed crash site of a Boeing cargo plane on Wednesday, hours after it lost contact with air traffic control on its way to Karachi with five crew members on board, Pakistan authorities said.

Spanish Cardinal Cristobal Lopez Romero, who is also the Archbishop of Rabat, Morocco, has suspended himself after being accused of molesting women, the Vatican said on its own news site.

A 22-year-old fireman died while fighting a wildfire in the Savoie region in the French Alps, the French interior minister said on Wednesday.

The Springboks will claim their 10th consecutive Test win if they beat Scotland in Pretoria on Saturday – and round off a particularly successful 12-month stretch with the full complement of Rugby Championship and Six Nations scalps.

Along with producing useful things, old-fashioned, by-hand hobbies reduce anxiety – just ask a perpetual teeth-grinder who found relief by casting on yarn.

Winners get all the attention, but sometimes the great World Cup teams that didn’t strike gold are more interesting.