
Bananas! Surprise as back garden plant bears fruit
Stephen Hind believes the current hot temperatures and climate change have encouraged the fruit.
THURSDAY, 16 JULY 2026, 18:48

Stephen Hind believes the current hot temperatures and climate change have encouraged the fruit.

Vickrum Digwa was recorded in a police van discussing Henry Nowak’s murder in Southampton.

The United States mission in South Africa will assist American citizens who do not reside close to Cape Town or Johannesburg.

From embedded jewellery to scarring and infections, some in the industry want at-home kits banned.

The prime minister will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv later on Thursday.

BBC Verify has looked at the scale of the housing challenge facing Burnham when he becomes PM.
In the heart of the Klein Karoo, the ‘Dagga Fabriek’ revitalises centuries-old traditions of cannabis cultivation, merging history with modern medicinal practices for global export.

Neill died in Sydney on Monday, with his family saying his death was ‘sudden and unexpected’.

Sleep is not a passive state; it involves complex biological processes. During a normal sleep period, you progress through four to five sleep cycles, writes Dr Luvuyo Bayeni

Despite Europe’s record-breaking heatwave, soaring temperatures did little to deter the biggest names in fashion, as insiders, editors, buyers, celebrities and couture devotees filled the front rows.

They failed to ensure that police leadership treated these cases as a priority.

The infant, dressed in baby clothing, was found placed inside a plastic bag and abandoned

At the Wafcon in Morocco, Banyana will face Tanzania on July 27, Ivory Coast four days later, and Burkina Faso on August 4, as they pursue a top-four finish.
SEOUL, July 16 (Reuters) – China’s fourth-highest-ranked official, Wang Huning, held talks in Pyongyang with a top official of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday.
GENOA, Italy, July 16 (Reuters) – Judges in Genoa on Thursday are expected to deliver their verdict in a trial over the collapse of a motorway bridge in the Italian port city in 2018 which killed 43 people.
WASHINGTON, July 15 (Reuters) – Detainees at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas told two rights groups they were beaten by guards, denied medical care and prevented from contacting family and lawyers, according to a report issued on Wednesday.
CAIRO/DUBAI, July 15 (Reuters) – The US struck Iran’s coastal defences and missile sites on Wednesday after reimposing a naval blockade of its ports, while Iran threatened to shut off more regional energy exports, saying it was engaged in an “existential war” with America.
An alleged scheme to erase Ralph Stanfield’s tax debt with fraudulent SARS refund claims unravelled into a story of missed prosecutions, strategic sequestrations and official inaction that allowed the alleged crime boss to escape both criminal tax charges and a R31-million tax bill.

North America correspondent Nada Tawik reports from a packed pub in the Big Apple.