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.

The Nelson Mandela Bay district matric performance has improved by 0.7% to 87.4% in 2025, despite the 0.66% drop in Bachelor’s passes. With two pupils honoured for their achievements in both the national and provincial matric results announcement ceremonies, the future remains bright for the incoming matric class of 2026.

Maverick Earth launches today as a renewed commitment to deep, investigative environmental journalism.

X’s AI chatbot Grok has facilitated a surge in sexualised content on the platform, specifically the mass production of explicit images created without the subjects’ permission. Its creator, Elon Musk, dismisses this ‘digital stripping’ as a free speech issue.

Positive signs from Maputo and Durban give me reason to hold out hope that our port woes will go the way of load shedding worries. The Port of Cape Town, however, has a particularly worrying challenge – and it’s moving at more than 100km/h.