Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.

Swiss National Bank Chairman Martin Schlegel has not ruled out taking the central bank’s policy rate into negative territory if necessary, he said on Monday, although such a step would not be taken ...

The Trump administration has put on leave about 60 senior career officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), sources familiar with the matter said, after Washington put a ...

A scrappy Chinese AI startup is sending shockwaves through the tech sector, prompting a market-wide panic as investors question whether multi-billion-dollar valuations are merely a mirage in the ...

DeepSeek's AI model has not only outpaced ChatGPT in app downloads but also sent Nvidia's leveraged ETFs spiraling downward, leaving investors wondering if they’ve just witnessed a "Sputnik moment" or ...

Ghana plans to launch a Gold Board to streamline gold purchases from small-scale miners, increase earnings and reduce smuggling, the west African country’s newly appointed finance minister Cassiel Ato ...

Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, Google said in an X post on Monday.

Xolani Patrick Lingani was shot when officers tried to break up a gathering outside a spaza shop in Mdantsane during the fifth day of the lockdown in 2020.

The European Union renewed on Monday its wide-ranging sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, after Hungary stopped holding up the move in return for a declaration on energy security.

Question: Robots in our city are often in crisis. But the traffic lights in Johannesburg have had a really hard start to the year – everywhere, there are complaints of outages. What has happened?

The source of an oil pollution incident which left 19 underweight African penguins oiled between Hout Bay and Kommetjie last week remains a mystery.

As machines increasingly take over tasks once performed by humans, the traditional landscape of labour relations is undergoing a seismic shift.