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The toymaker is launching new toy cars based on electric models and making some from recycled materials.

The rich across the globe have big ambitions for sustainable investing — the type of portfolios that help combat climate change or tackle societal problems. The reality is more complex.

Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Alibaba’s supermarket arm joined their fellow Chinese tech giants in vowing to eradicate monopolistic practices, as the country’s largest corporations rush to publicly align themselves with Beijing.

Lieutenant-General Rudzani Maphwanya has been appointed the Chief of the South African National Defence Force.

The City of Cape Town has congratulated filmmaker Craig Forster for winning a Bafta award for his Netflix documentary My Octopus Teacher.

Seven suspects made a brief appearance in the Blue Downs Magistrate’s Court in connection with the murder of Sergeant Thomas Ngobeni from the Mowbray Detective Unit.

According to civic organisation SANCO there’s over two dozen homes in Soweto that have illegally been sold and many families forcefully evicted from their homes using fraudulent tittle deeds and forged letters of authority

Thousands have fled their homes on the Caribbean island of St Vincent as a volcano continues to erupt.

President Biden’s proposal for a summit with Russia’s leader means the risk of an escalation has faded.

A BBC team meets the Taliban, a group that clearly sees itself as Afghanistan’s government-in-waiting.

As the pandemic rages in Brazil, hundreds of babies and young children are dying of Covid.

Malawi will destroy over 16 000 expired coronavirus vaccines donated to the impoverished country by the African Union three weeks before their use-by-date, a health official said.

Fourteen people died and four others were wounded when the minibus they were travelling in ran over a landmine on the outskirts of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, a regional official said.

Twenty people were killed on Wednesday in Egypt when a bus collided with a truck carrying petroleum products, the health ministry, medical and security sources said.

The DR Congo will kick off a Covid vaccination drive next week, the government said on Wednesday, despite persistent public wariness over potential side effects from the drugs.

Alibaba’s run-in with Chinese regulators has made things tense for its other technology giants.

Charity retailers ask givers to book before just turning up with donations as people flock back.

Two-fifths of UK workers in full or part-time employment are given short notice of their work patterns.

‘There are three main areas we believe you should pay attention to when you are looking into investment portfolios’: Jaco van Tonder, director of advisor services at Ninety One.

He was giving evidence at the State Capture Commission in Johannesburg on Wednesday.

Former president Jacob Zuma on Wednesday submitted a 21-page letter to Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng out of “respect”, to let the head of the Constitutional Court know that he would not be deposing an affidavit about an appropriate sanction should he be found to be in contempt of court, as Mogoeng had directed. Mogoeng had […]

Some residents in Thabazimbi in Limpopo, have stopped construction on Eskom’s multi-million rand power line.

Public enterprises minister denies that he tried to influence the appointment of a judge and friend to the SCA in 2016

Mohamed Salah and Georginio Wijnaldum were guilty of wasting glorious opportunities to get Klopp’s men back into the tie as they failed to replicate a remarkable recovery from 3-0 down to beat Barcelona 4-3 on aggregate at the semi-final stage two years ago.

Liverpool were left to rue a host of missed chances as Real Madrid held out for a 0-0 draw at Anfield to progress to the semi-finals of the Champions League.

A minor renewal or a major overhaul? Jurgen Klopp has some serious questions to consider as Liverpool look beyond this injury-disrupted season.

Jesse Lingard undecided over Man Utd return, but Declan Rice keen to join Red Devils, plus more.

Anthony J. Thompson Jr., 17, a student at Austin-East Magnet High School in Knoxville, Tenn., was fatally shot during a struggle, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said.

Universities in capital say proposals could create more inequalities than it addresses

Universities in London have said the government’s “levelling up” agenda has resulted in a funding shortfall that risks pushing three institutions into the red.

The universities regulator, the Office for Students (OfS), is planning to remove a portion of the state teaching grant that was previously channelled...

A school district in Aledo, Texas, said it had meted out “disciplinary consequences” after ninth graders assigned dollar values to students of color in private Snapchat messages.

Lord Nash’s letter says pupils should be warned of consequences of further protests at London school

The chair of the trust which runs Pimlico Academy, the London secondary school at the centre of pupil protests over allegations of race discrimination, has written a letter to parents warning that any future disobedience by pupils will result in disciplinary action.

Hundreds of students took...

When it comes to baking, the devil is in the details. Follow these simple tips to make it less finicky and more fun.

Jaco Smit’s new shop in Joburg’s 44 Stanley specialises in sourdough and uncommon sips

The former American football player and ‘The Bachelor’ star has revealed that he is gay in an emotional ‘Good Morning America’ interview.

A woman who stayed at the Pepperclub Hotel claimed to have heard a young lady screaming, ‘Leave me alone. Don’t touch me’ before Nelli Tembe plunged to her death.

Colton Underwood is returning to reality TV — but this time on Netflix.

Amid a global pandemic, shuttered movie theaters and after a two-month delay, Sunday’s 93rd Academy Awards are already poised to feel very different than previous years.

The ninth installment in the “Fast & Furious” franchise has a new release date set for June 25.

An advisory committee debated the very few cases of a rare blood disorder and worried about the suspension’s effect on global needs for a one-shot, easy-to-ship vaccine.

A study of 59 people compared the drug with a conventional antidepressant.

There had been concerns that large numbers would have to self-isolate after a false positive result.

Lawrence Dixon, 30, signed up to the reserve list in the morning and received a jab that evening.

Some rare footage of two wild pandas having a fierce fight has been captured by researchers in China.

The BBC speaks to the woman who, as a child, witnessed Yuri Gagarin’s return to Earth 60 years ago.

She told the BBC she was concerned about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on attendance at COP26.