New York City detectives investigating this week's mass shooting were interviewing the attacker's associates in his home state of Nevada on Wednesday, as gun safety advocates expressed dismay that he ...

Canada plans to recognize the State of Palestine at a meeting of the United Nations in September, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Wednesday, ratcheting up pressure on Israel as starvation ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday that he had discussed the crisis in Gaza with his UK counterpart, Keir Starmer, and reiterated his government's strong support for a ...

Woolworths has announced a first-of-its-kind benefits package designed to change the lives of thousands of its employees.

Britain's government will consider rival plans to expand the country's biggest airport Heathrow in the coming months, after the Arora Group confirmed on Thursday it was submitting a proposal for a new ...

Plastic pollution was a big-ticket item at a recent meeting of African environment ministers in Nairobi. The experience of communal farmers in the Eastern Cape, who are tackling single-use nappies ...

For more than 20 years, the law has required that the minister of health issues regulations to govern the advertising of medicines in South Africa, but as yet no such regulations are in place. In his ...

One of the most important and most interesting questions of our time is whether President Cyril Ramaphosa has the political power to do what he says he wants to do. For several years, he has been ...

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.

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

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.