This guidance will determine whether production can go ahead in the controversial Scottish fields, Rosebank and Jackdaw.

A man shot at point blank range by a Kenyan police officer during protests in the capital Nairobi against extrajudicial killings by security forces is alive but in intensive care, his father said on Wednesday.

Estate agency told off for calling professional women ‘birdies’

South Africa’s six systematically important banks passed the central bank’s inaugural climate-risk stress test, but the exercise exposed some modelling shortfalls as institutions had not fully embedded climate-risk indicators into their frameworks, a financial stability review showed.

Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince was in the dark on Wednesday after residents of a nearby town stormed a dam and brought it offline in protest at government inaction over gang violence.

Watch President Trump ask Juventus men’s players if “a woman could make the team” during their visit to the White House during the Club World Cup, which is being held in the United States.

The South African passport has fallen one place on the 2025 Henley & Partners Passport Index and lost visa-free access to another country.

The latest rental market data released by Seeff Property Group shows the Western Cape continues to hold the title of the most expensive province for renters, with an average monthly rental of R11,141.

‘Some players are making a strong return from injury and we’ve had time for players to settle back.’

West African nations want to strike deals with the US over energy and rare earth minerals, but the Trump administration’s looming expansion of travel bans risks derailing those efforts, Nigeria’s foreign minister Yussuf Tuggar said on Wednesday.

Provisional agreement aimed at ending fighting in eastern DRC expected to be formally signed on June 27.

Costs of war and damage done since Friday will be expensive for both Israel and Iran.

Heavy rainfall in southern China has caused severe flooding and landslides, affecting over 300,000 people.

It will be an offence to supply wet wipes containing plastic to customers in Wales from December 2026.

Andreas Krieg says Israel is shaping Trump’s view on Iran’s nukes – increasing the chances of US military involvement.

Spotlight this week looks at Rebel Wilson’s latest action comedy, a new Pixar release at cinemas plus coverage of the local premiere of ‘From the World of John Wick: Ballerina’.

The BBC’s Lucy Williamson is outside Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, in the south of the country, as emergency workers assess the scene.