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Men jailed over plot to attack Jewish community
Two men are jailed after planning what police say could have been “the UK’s deadliest terror attack”.
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Two men are jailed after planning what police say could have been “the UK’s deadliest terror attack”.
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Stay inspired despite the taps running dry. Explore Maria McCloy’s curated guide to the best South African music and art gigs happening this week.

South Africa
Thulani Magagula says Ekurhuleni was aware of the issue involving the theft of cigarettes by EMPD

South Africa
UK-registered, Egyptian-founded customer experience platform Tactful AI has raised $1 million in a pre-Series A funding round to expand its end-to-end, AI-driven customer service infrastructure built on agentic AI capabilities. The round was co-led by UAE-based venture capital firm Foras AI and investment firm M Empire. Deep-tech angel investors also participated, including Omar Gabr,...

South Africa
Tunisia’s minister of health, Dr. Mustafa Al-Furjani, met with Assad bin Dyab, president and general manager of Tunisie Telecom, to accelerate the digitalization of healthcare services. The high-level meeting focused on expanding the use of technology to improve quality of care and bring health services closer to citizens. Officials identified several priorities for the next […]

South Africa
Ghana has reaffirmed its commitment to the responsible development and use of artificial intelligence, particularly in military and security operations, as global scrutiny intensifies over the impact of emerging technologies on peace and stability. Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs James Gyakye Quayson represented Ghana at the Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain (REAIM)...

World
In its ruling, the court said an earlier decision to ban the Pro-Palestinian group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was “disproportionate.”

World
The 84-year-old mother of news anchor Savannah Guthrie disappeared from her Arizona home two weeks ago.

World
Under President Trump’s Gaza ceasefire plan, Arab countries and the European Union are supposed to train a new police force in the Gaza Strip. But U.S. plans have run into serious challenges.
World
Iranian authorities have freed two senior reformist figures who were arrested in recent days following anti-government protests in January, local media reported.

Africa
President Cyril Ramaphosa says the army will work with the police to fight organised crime and illegal mining.

Africa
Somali Islamist militant group al-Shabab has staged several attacks in Kenya, prompting the border to be closed.

Africa
Search efforts are continuing for the missing passengers, who included children.

Africa
Madagascar’s disaster management says roads are inaccessible with trees uprooted, power poles down and ninety percent of roofs ripped off.

Business
Boardwalk Mall is undergoing a large expansion, with the mall set to get padel courts and 5-a-side soccer facility.

Business
Yuko Yamaguchi oversaw the feline character’s rise to to global icon status.

Business
Prices rose by 2.4% in the year to January, the latest official figures show, the slowest pace since May.
Business

Politics
For the first time in several years, electricity did not dominate the president’s address

Politics
It’s alleged that Ekurhuleni Metro Police Department specialised unit officers stole a truck in 2023

Politics
President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged the country to unite amid the many issues the country faces.

Politics
The Gauteng leader said provincial officials had approached him to pursue the national position

Sport
Watch as Australia’s Josie Baff wins gold in the women’s snowboard cross at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Sport
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says we will “have a better society” by embracing other cultures but the world has “a lot of work to do”. His comments come as a response to an interview from Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe where he said the UK had been “colonised by immigrants” – an answer he later apologised for.

Sport
Manchester City midfielder Rodri is charged with misconduct by the Football Association following comments he made about referees following his side’s 2-2 draw with Tottenham earlier this month.

Sport
The 35-year-old Scot finished sixth in the 10km interval start freestyle to post Britain’s best finish in a Winter Olympic cross-country skiing event.

Education
Advice on how to respond to students questioning their birth gender has been updated. Here are the key changes
Ministers have released updated guidance on how schools and colleges in England should respond to students who are questioning their birth gender. How is it different to the previous Department for Education (DfE) guidance, released under the Conservatives in 2023?
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Education
[New Dawn] – In a significant boost to access to safe drinking water and improved learning conditions, the Rotary Club of Gbarnga, in partnership with Humanity Care Liberia, has officially broken ground on a solar-powered well at the government-run John Flomo Bakalu High School in Gbarnga, Bong County.
Education
Harold Holzer, an expert on Abraham Lincoln, is taking over the role of borough historian. He is looking ahead to some significant milestones this year.
Education
The number of children being detained has spiked since last year. Families describe poor conditions and little education.
Lifestyle
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Lifestyle
The long-talked-about 2026 SASSA unemployment grant will finally go ahead, confirms President Ramaphosa at SONA. But how much will it cost?

Lifestyle
A nature reserve in Cape Town has made history after it unveiled SA’s first Braille coastal environmental education signage.

Entertainment
Floodwaters have submerged more than 100 000 hectares, destroying crops and displacing families.
Entertainment

Entertainment
“Let me state this clearly, Mario has not given me any tactical or confidential information about Sundowns,” Mokwena said.

Entertainment
The Tiggo 7 CSH features high-strength steel construction, eight airbags, advanced driver assistance systems, and protected electrified powertrains.
Science/Tech
theodp writes: West Virginia lawmakers on Tuesday introduced House Bill 5387 (PDF), which would repeal the state’s recently enacted mandatory stand-alone computer science graduation requirement and replace it with a new computer literacy proficiency requirement. Not too surprisingly, the Bill is being opposed by tech-backed nonprofit Code.org, which lobbied for the WV CS graduation requirement...
Science/Tech
Meta plans to add facial recognition technology to its Ray-Ban smart glasses as soon as this year, New York Times reported Friday, five years after the social giant shut down facial recognition on Facebook and promised to find “the right balance” for the controversial technology. The feature, internally called “Name Tag,” would let wearers identify people and retrieve information about them...

Science/Tech
The idea of having warm, dry feet on your wet, snowy run is appealing. But you might not like the trade-offs.

Science/Tech
By 2030, more than 40% of SA’s energy supply will come from cheap, clean, renewable energy sources, says the president.

Motoring
These were the five biggest stories in South Africa’s transport industry this week.
Motoring
Motoring
Motoring
Health
Proponents of vaccines warn that the efforts will further dismantle the immunization infrastructure and lead to more outbreaks of disease.
Health
Health workers in developing countries know that isolating tuberculosis patients is an outdated and potentially harmful practice, but lack the resources to move away from it.
Health
The program was meant to help hospitals provide for poor patients by offering drug savings. But critics say a Texas company has turned it into a big business, driving up costs for patients and insurers.

Health
Backlog drops below 7.3m for first time since 2023 in England, but concern over long A&E waits.