Cape Town came terrifyingly close to running dry, but 10 years on, is the city ready for the next climate-driven drought?

Some names need no introduction, and this August they’ll be on one stage – ready to be heard, challenged and engaged with.

After a lengthy court process, Tiffany Meek, charged with murdering her 11-year-old son Jayden-Lee Meek, was denied bail after she was found to have misled the court.

Thousands of firefighters struggled to put out a dozen wildfires raging in northern Portugal and central Spain through the night and into Wednesday, in the largest wave of blazes in the Iberian ...

From fake companies winning multimillion-rand contracts to whistleblower warnings ignored, this exposé reveals how corruption flourished unchecked at South Africa’s Sector Education and Training ...

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered tsunami waves of up to 5 metres (16 feet) nearby and sparked evacuation orders as far away as Hawaii and ...

Having shaped the treaty, Africa must capitalise on recent global momentum to benefit from a new era in ocean governance.

I didn’t think I’d be able to fit these four large lamb shanks into my tagine, but with a bit of careful rearranging, there they were, out of sight behind the conical lid.

The City of Johannesburg says it is assailed by illegal outdoor advertisers and is worried that the perpetrators are not just rogue operators, but that there is a network of companies using forged ...

A magnitude 8.7 earthquake struck off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday, generating a tsunami of up to 4 metres (13 feet), damaging buildings and prompting evacuation warnings in ...

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Britain said on Tuesday it would recognise a Palestinian state in September unless Israel takes steps to relieve suffering in Gaza, where starvation is spreading, and reaches a ceasefire in the nearly ...