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Facebook’s smart glasses are on track for a 2021 launch, and it is making them with Ray-Ban parent company Luxottica, its head of AR and VR said.

Former England wing Ugo Monye says Premiership Rugby “does not care enough” about racism in the sport.

After Lady Gaga’s bulldogs were stolen, victims in the UK share their stories with BBC Radio 5 Live.

Prioritising people for a Covid vaccine based on age is “the moral thing to do”, Matt Hancock says.

A mostly cloudy and pleasant day is expected across the country on Saturday with isolated showers forecast by the South African Weather Service.

Gauteng Weather has issued a warning following heavy storms and hail in parts of Johannesburg.

A Free State man, who stabbed and killed his pregnant girlfriend after he accused her of disrespecting him, has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars.

A state-of-the-art library has been officially opened in Alice in the Eastern Cape in honour of liberation struggle stalwart Raymond Mhlaba. He was the first premier of the province between 1994 and 1997. The multimillion-rand library also caters for visually impaired individuals.

Seventeen former British gymnasts, including three Olympians, have notified British Gymnastics of their intention to take legal action, alleging coaches subjected them to “systemic physical and psychological abuse,” according to a statement from their law firm Hausfeld.

Japan’s Tamayo Marukawa signs a document opposing a move for separate surnames for married couples.

KANO, Nigeria, Feb 26 – Unidentified gunmen seized more than 300 girls in a nighttime raid on a school in northwest Nigeria on Friday and are believed to be holding some of them in a forest, police said.

The Libya Football Federation announces the first steps towards the lifting of a ban on its stadiums being used for international matches.

Libya’s prime minister-designate Abdul Hamid Dheibah is set to name a transitional government tasked with unifying the war-torn nation and leading it to elections in December.

Meet Gardi Koko and Navy Malela, the two whistleblowers who risked everything to raise the alarm

Mike Schüssler – stigter en hoofekonoom, economists.co.za

Andre Cilliers – direkteur, TreasuryOne

Jean Pierre Verster – uitvoerende hoof, Protea Capital Management

President Cyril Ramaphosa has told editors that the African National Congress’ top leadership will meet with former President Jacob Zuma any day soon to discuss among others his defiance of the Constitutional Court order that he appears before the State Capture Commission.

The ANC Women’s League says it will visit former president Jacob Zuma at his Nkandla Homestead in KwaZulu-Natal, at a date to be announced soon.

President Cyril Ramaphosa holds a question-and-answer session with the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF). This follows his State of the Nation Address earlier this month.

North West Premier Job Mokgoro says he maintains the political power to implement a forensic investigation unit, despite the ANC interim provincial committee’s decision in January to suspend his party membership.

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer believes the race for the top four will go down to the wire as Manchester United prepare to face Thomas Tuchel’s revitalised Chelsea.

Former England wing Ugo Monye says Premiership Rugby “does not care enough” about racism in the sport.

Everton’s Gylfi Sigurdsson tells Football Focus it’s “incredible” to see how much manager Carlo Ancelotti cares about the club.

EP Elephants coach Peter de Villiers had little hesitation installing Inny Radebe as his captain despite admitting such a process is “difficult” in general.

We spent six months documenting one Texas high school’s reopening. This is what it looked like.

My friend the American painter Philip Morsberger, who has died aged 87 of complications arising from coronavirus, played a significant role in the recent history of the Ruskin school of art in Oxford, now part of the department of fine art at Oxford University.

Born in Baltimore, Philip was awarded a scholarship to Maryland Institute College of Art in 1946, at the age of 13, before attending...

Rob Watling thinks an education secretary with imagination could transform this summer for children, while Philip C Stenning calls for moderation. Plus letters from Dr Cary Bazalgette and Sarah James

If we had someone with imagination as secretary of state for education, we would be looking forward to a summer of active, creative and inspiring activities for our youngsters. They would harness...

Calvin Tyler, who left Morgan State University, a historically Black college, in 1963, worked his way up to become a UPS board member

A man who dropped out of college because he couldn’t afford tuition costs and became a UPS driver has pledged $20m in scholarships to his former university nearly 60 years on.

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Veteran actor Kenneth Branagh looks uncannily like British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a first-look photo of his remarkable transformation for the political series ‘This Sceptred Isle’.

Lady Gaga’s father, Joe Germanotta is speaking out following the horrifying attack on Wednesday that left his daughter’s dog walker shot and her two French bulldogs stolen.

Almost 50 years after “Lady Sings the Blues,” “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” revisits the singer’s career, through the lens of the feds hounding her. The result is a disjointed, oddly structured movie, which derives its high notes from Andra Day’s showstopping performance in the title role.

“The Father” will affect people in different ways, and the movie remains a somewhat claustrophobic adaptation of the stage play. Yet there have been few better attempts on screen to capture dementia — both for those trapped within it, and those grappling with how to handle them — punctuated by a staggering performance from Anthony Hopkins, a brilliant cherry on top of the 83-year-old actor’s...

The platform has promised to do better after a string of incidents. But the hardest part might be managing user expectations.

We need more ways to find new movies, books and activities — especially those that challenge us.

The new Netflix animated series puts a new spin on old tales.

After phase one is complete by mid-April, in what order will all other adults get the jab?

The pandemic has stolen away the chance to surround the sister we are losing to dementia with our love, so that she does not have to face death alone.

Many scientists are expecting another rise in infections. But this time the surge will be blunted by vaccines and, hopefully, widespread caution. By summer, Americans may be looking at a return to normal life.

The New York Times would like to hear from parents and adolescents who are dealing with mental health challenges.

Planned UK first hopes to be looking for extraterrestrial life within five years.

Climate change could destroy “entire cities” in a matter of decades, says Sir David Attenborough.

The health of on estuary is a description of the condition of an estuary and are driven by two key drivers, water quality and quantity. Rain falling on the land eventually makes its way to a lake, river, stream, estuary, or ocean. Some rainwater flows slowly, in a thin layer called sheet flow across the […]

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